Author: Jeff Huber

I posed a question yesterday: under what authority did we conducted air strikes in southern Somalia last Sunday?  The best answer I’ve found so far is this (as reported in the San Jose Mercury News): The transitional...

I had several reactions to the Monday strike in Somalia by a AC-130 gunship against members of al-Qaeda.   My first thought was: yeah, that’s the way you go after terrorists.  Cultivate intelligence, isolate the...

Lieutenant General Raymond T. Ordierno, who took over as operational commander in Iraq last month, says that even with additional American troops deployed to Iraq it may take “two or three years” for U.S. and Iraqi...

Also at Kos. It looks like the escalation is on.  David E. Sanger reports in Sunday’s New York Times that Mr. Bush’s new strategy for Iraq will include a rapid influx of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops....

Promoted by Steven D. Jeff makes the very sound point that we don’t need an Admiral in command at CENTCOM to fight a land war in Iraq, but Bush just might want one if the real purpose for his appointment is to prepare and...