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This blog touches on military history and National Security Affairs along with current posts on various military news and happenings. A post titled "Nice Work, If You Can Get It . . . Here’s Your Chance!" is a very good read!
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The Meeting from Hell: Conspiracy
Originally published in World War II magazine. Reprinted with permission. We’ve all attended this meeting, convened by the leadership to discuss some new organizational undertaking and—ostensibly—to collect and synthesize the views of all assembled. Neophytes among us believe that; the more experienced know the score. We enter the conference room resigned, wary, even disposed to revolt. But
The Rout of the Confederate Flag
Cross posted from Civil Warriors As surely you already know, in the wake of the murder of nine worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, a petition was circulated demanding the removal of a Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state house. It quickly generated a massive number of signatures and a national ground swell of
Nonsense About the Confederate Flag
From (for some bizarre reason) FoxSports, written by one Clay Travis and entitled, "On the Confederate Flag." Travis begins: Only in modern day America could a racist psychopath kill nine people in a Southern church and the focus turn to a flag. Only in modern day America could our nation's largest retailer, Wal Mart, announce -- to substantial applause -- that it will no longer sell
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