by Henry Oliner | Dec 31, 2008 | Israel, Military
Israel is often criticized for disproportionate response to their terrorist foes. Yet any successful military solution is disproportionate. It is the only humane way to fight a war. A war is not a field game designed to be fair and equal, to minimize the game spread....
by Henry Oliner | Aug 15, 2008 | Foreign policy, Military
fromLooking for TroubleAdventures in a Broken Worldby Ralph Peters”Intelligence officers worry too much about dead facts and too little about their antagonist’s delusions. What men believe about themselves is often more important than their reality- and...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 18, 2008 | Military
When some of our special ops soldiers met up with the Northern Allaince in Afghanistan they had to quickly adapt to horseback to cover their operational territory. Saddles sores became so severe it became a disability. They requested hundreds of pounds of vaseline.But...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 24, 2008 | Foreign policy, Middle East, Military, Politics
Ralph Peters, a critic of the Rumsfeld fiasco period, is high on Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his selection of soldiers’ soldiers to run the war. The article, Gates’s Grand Slam.General Robert Patraeus will take over US Central Command.Lt General Ray...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 17, 2008 | Military
Marcus Luttrell of Seal Team 10 was with 3 other Seals on Operation Redwing in the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan searching for Ben Sharmak, a high level Al Qaeda operative in a Taliban stronghold . Navy Seals are the toughest of the toughest. You have be tremendously fit...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 17, 2008 | Military
Number 1.The greater the military’s ability to isolate combatants, the longer the war will last. Israel and the United States have developed incredible precision to take out enemy combatants while sparing civilian lives. This is the result of the higher moral code...
