Author: Jeff Huber

by Jeff Huber Part I describes how John McCain became indebted to the neoconservative cabal when he gained their support by endorsing the Iraq surge stratagem.  Part II examines McCain’s taste in bedfellows. The thing...

by Jeff Huber This is the first installment of a pre-election series of essays on John McCain and American militarism. Having based his presidential candidacy on his prowess in national security affairs, John McCain needed a...

by Jeff Huber Those poor kids at the Pentagon.  They receive more funding than the rest of the world’s military establishments combined, but it’s just not enough.  Pentagon officials have prepared a new...

by Jeff Huber I thought Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki showed state fair size baby makers when he told us to start packing our caissons and hit the dusty trail that leads out of Iraq.  Then General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the...

by Jeff Huber John McCain…knows how to win a war. –Sarah  Palin My matriculation at the United States Naval War College left me with an indelible regard  for the wisdom of Ernie Pyle’s admonition that...