Military History, Book Reviews, and Other Things

Category Dispatches & Administration

Site meta-commentary, editorial updates, and observations on military culture and veterans’ affairs. This node houses administrative logs and cultural critiques operating outside the primary academic and historiographical framework.

Military Uniforms

As I was getting ready for work this morning I started thinking about military uniforms and what their purpose is. I have heard all the typical reasons such as discipline, Esprit de Corps, identification, distinctiveness, economy, and of course, uniformity…. Continue Reading →

A Great One from the WSJ

The First Rule of Liberalism: Government failure always justifies more government. That is one of the best lines I have seen in a while. Thanks to the Best of the Web Team at the Wall Street Journal for coming up… Continue Reading →

Germany’s Current Strategic Position

At the present time, Germany is in a strategic position unparalleled in its history.   The German state shares no borders with any potential enemies in the near future.   Historically Germany has had to contend with one or more… Continue Reading →

Interesting Article in Stars and Stripes

I am probably going to get beat up for posting this but here goes anyway. There was an interesting story (attached to the post here) in last Tuesday’s edition of European Stars and Stripes.   It concerned the lack of… Continue Reading →

Posting Hiatus

No posts for the next week or so as I will be on vacation visiting historic places I can post about and probably lounging on the beach as well.

WOW, What more can you say to a story like this?

Education officials break down Stockton man’s door I don’t even know what to think about this. Surprise that the DOE has cops or shock that they would use a SWAT team to go after a student loan defaulter. Maybe those… Continue Reading →

New RSS Feed

I have added a new RSS Feed subscription form in the sidebar.  I hope that people are interested enough in what I have to say to subscribe.  I have reproduced it below. Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner

Herman Cain Has Officially Announced His Candidacy for President

Herman Cain is the one real person running for president, not a career politician. He is probably the best candidate out there and I am waiting for the left-wing Smear Machine to go into overdrive on him. Here s a… Continue Reading →

Beef with Google Books

Dr Beachcombing over at strange history sent me this post of his through email a few days ago and I decided to link to it. It regards the quality of the scans available for books in the Google Books service…. Continue Reading →

I hate Citigroup

I dabble in the stock market and one of the stocks I owned until recently was 5 shares of Citigroup stock.   I picked it up in late 2008 at $6 a share hoping to vulture-like profit share.   In… Continue Reading →

The Lack of New Posts Lately

I was in the hospital last week after undergoing surgery to fix a herniated disk in my lower back so I have not posted anything until today. I injured my back almost 17 years ago in a Bradley rollover at… Continue Reading →

How to Behave during an Islamic massacre

A hilarious, yet strangely profound, piece from Andrew Klavan via PJTV. This is one of the best pieces I have seen that highlights the idiocy of the liberal lefts views on Islam. I found it on my favorite political satire… Continue Reading →

Justin Bieber stop spamming my webpage!!!!

I have gotten at least 500 spam comments from Justin Bieber in the last week.   They look like this(hyperlinks removed): Justin Bieber 0 approved justinbieber24.pl Plomma14372@gmail.com 94.41.92.26 Submitted on 2011/05/01 at 08:57 Kanadyjski wokalista http://www.justinbieber24.pl justin bieber justin bieber… Continue Reading →

Courtesy Patrols Outside Fort Benning

Drudge has a link up to this story about the military instituting Courtesy Patrols (CP) in downtown Columbus, Georgia just outside the gates of Fort Benning. The story itself is very balanced and explains what a CP is what they… Continue Reading →

UPDATE: Saint John of Nepomuk

I wrote a post about Saint John of Nepomuk a week or so ago and at the time I wanted to post a picture of the statue near my house but had been too lazy to stop on my way… Continue Reading →

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