Author: Jeff Huber

Predicting what might happen in a shooting match with Iran is a perilous errand.  The Clausewitzean concepts of fog and friction apply to modern war every bit as much as they do to the conflicts of bygone eras.  For...

You can rest easy.  Political pundit and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan predicted on Sunday that there is a “fifty-fifty chance of U.S. air strikes on Iran by October.”  I just love the all out...

“I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” – from the U.S. military officer oath In an April 10 speech at the White House, Mr. Bush stated that,...

Back in the good old days when global nuclear annihilation was a real and present danger and not just something Dick Cheney talked about to scare people, the United States fought its proxy wars with superpowers like the Soviet...

I have to say it again: If the Bush administration put a fraction of the effort it spends on spinning its wars into winning them, it wouldn’t need to spin them.   The current clash between Iraqi Shiite Cleric Moqtada...