Author: Jeff Huber

Michael R. Gordon of the New York Times tells us that after four years of playing whack-a-mole, in which insurgents and terrorists sneak away live to fight another day, U.S. forces are changing tactics.  It seems they...

The big offensive is on.  Roughly 10,000 U.S. troops have commenced an operation to drive the Sunni extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq from its new stronghold in Diyala province north of Baghdad.  As best we can tell,...

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Peter Pace is the last of Donald Rumsfeld’s hand-picked four-stars to be shown the door.  Defense Secretary Robert Gates decided not to put him before another confirmation hearing,...

On Monday, in case you haven’t heard, Central Command chief Admiral William Fallon told Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to pull his head out of his keister.  Also present at the closed door conversation...

Send lawyers, guns and money.  Dad, get me out of this. — Warren Zevon On Monday, Iraq’s Parliament voted to remove its speaker, Mahmoud Mashhadani.  As Josh Partlow of the Washington Post informs us,...