Category Dispatches & Administration
The Court-Martial of Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan (left) is set to start on Tuesday almost four years after the 5 November, 2009 rampage at the Fort Hood Deployment Readiness Center that left 13 people dead and over 30 wounded. He… Continue Reading →
This is kind of an amusing story, unless of course you are the guy that got killed. When I was deployed to Iraq in 2004 with C Troop 1/4 Cav we had a platoon of National Guard soldiers assigned to… Continue Reading →
I migrated my database today to a new server that has more storage. I have noticed since then that most posts have replaced the occasional space with this character Â. I have fixed the most recent of my posts but… Continue Reading →
I have decided to take my political musings and move them elsewhere. I don’t want my personal politics to drive any readers away so I am going to try and focus this blog on history and reviews of books I… Continue Reading →
The Center for Strategic and International Studies has just released Beyond the Last War: Balancing Ground Forces and Future Challenges Risk in USCENTCOM and USPACOM.  The report makes for interesting reading.  What I found the most interesting aside from the scenarios considered… Continue Reading →
I was doing some research today for my capstone BS in IT class and ran across this very interesting Infographic about the economic consequences of all that pirated music and movies most people have on their PC’s and decided to share it…. Continue Reading →
I try to not have my blog be political but sometimes I digress and this post is one of those times. Â I have made it no secret that I am politically conservative. Â I don’t think I am rabidly conservative but… Continue Reading →
Loyal readers, I was approached by Mr Thompkins via email about reviewing his novel The Mogadishu Diaries: Bloodlines. This is a self-published work and one I will not be able to read for at least a month because of the… Continue Reading →
The First Sign of Spring-It is finally here or at least just around the corner.
Deutsche Telekom has website they recently put up that has a live “radar” like view of where the most hacker attacks in the world are coming from.  It is at their Overview of current cyber attacks.  If anybody thinks that the internet… Continue Reading →
I saw this today and just had to throw it out there. Â Feel free to berate me in the comments if you dislike it.
The title of this piece is a very good question in my opinion. The question really came home to me recently when I was reading the Calls for Papers in the bi-annual newsletter of the Society of Military History of… Continue Reading →
Updated 24 June 2014 — Below the fold is a list of historical sources on the internet, this includes both primary and secondary source collections. I am constantly updating this list when I run across useful sites. Please point me at… Continue Reading →
I hope all my readers have a Happy New Year!  Especially those troops deployed, may they stay safe, come home healthy to their families, and most of all be Victorious!
I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas with a special thought to all military personnel who have to spend this holiday away from their family as they serve their countries. Â They are not forgotten.