Author: Jeff Huber

Another Week Under Our Belts

The New York Times reports that lowering of recruiting standards has allowed hate groups to infiltrate the military. A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls...

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Eating Crow in the Next World Order

In case you hadn’t noticed, the neoconservative approach to foreign policy has been an unmitigated failure. The media are still abuzz with stories of the North Korean missile tests.  David E. Sanger of the New York...

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Iraq, Iran, I Wonder What’s Next

In the Next World Order I discuss how use of armed force is losing its effectiveness as a tool of national power, more often than not doing more harm than good.  With each passing day, we see further evidence of this...

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Good, Bad, and Ugly on the Fourth of July

The ugliest image I’ll remember from this Fourth of July is the broadcast footage of young Mister Bush playing Commander in Chief for the camera in front of the troops at Fort Bragg, home of the fabled 82nd Airborne...

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Rumble in Ramadi

I distinctly remember, after the fall of Baghdad, all the self-congratulatory backslapping over the fact that we hadn’t needed to conduct brutal house-to-house warfare in Iraq’s capital city.  Since then,...

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