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News Archive 2005 | 2004 | 2003 Operation: Red Dawn On 13 Dec, at 1900, the 1st Brigade Combat Team of 4th Infantry Division in coordination with Special Operations Forces attacks to kill/ capture HVT #1 in order to defeat enemy forces in the area of operations. View Slides (PowerPoint Document) Now The Brass Are Dumbing Down The Young Officers Because of last year’s public tragedy regarding the space shuttle NASA is being forced to deal with the systemic failures in it’s own culture that make such tragedies inevitable. News reporting on the story lately focuses mostly on NASA’s bureaucratic antecedents as the chief cause. I suggest a similar catastrophe may wait in the wings of the U.S. Army’s training infrastructure. Full Story | Reader Feedback Inf
Lt in Bosnia Sounds Off
"The Army of One", seems pretty appropriate for a slogan. Everybody seems to be looking out for number 1, with a few exceptions. Full Story Air
Force Captain Sounds Off
Leadership has a responsibility to ensure that the troop has the basic skills and the motivation to employ their rifle and other basic combat tools in an effective manner but has often failed due to pressure to have MOS specific skills take precedence over basic grunt skills. Full Story | Reader Feedback A
Marine SGT Sounds Off
I was a Marine and a Gulf war Vet and how I see this story so far...the vehicles involved did not follow convoy procedures, they were obviously close together when hit, as a result after the attack they stopped in a row (no herring-bone, no separation) rather than counter attack or leave the kill zone, some of them appear to possibly have even (rear-ended) each other. Full Story A
Special Forces Warrior Sounds Off
Many Soldiers are dissatisfied with the way things are in the SOF community right now and are voting with their feet and leaving the ranks. The majority of these departures are the senior more experienced men. This results in a less experienced force. Full Story The
two faces of Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons. Full Story Slam,
Slam The Flim Flam Man
Why Does the NYT Continue to Cite a Historian the Paper Discredited in
a Front-Page Story Years Ago?. Full
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Reports
from an Enbed in Iraq
Despite a long period of preparation for this conflict, the post-war information vacuum that was sure to come seems to be forgotten again. As of now, there is not one FM radio station or local TV carrying the US message. In fact, they don't exist at all. People are left to their own devices for news and that means street rumor and Iranian TV, both the worst possible things for us right now. Full Story
Hell of a Hog  It's hard to believe that this aircraft was still flying with all these bullet holes... The female in the first photo was the pilot. Not the first time an A-10 has brought back a Hog driver safely. What an aircraft! More Photos The Seeds of Victory To most of the world, the "tipping point" of the war with Iraq came after U.S. forces entered Baghdad and Saddam and his minions vanished in the swirling dust of his crumbling regime. But the truly decisive moment of the campaign seems to have been the decision, after that March 25 videoconference, to take the fight to the enemy just as Iraqi resistance was peaking. Full Story MEDIA: Good News From the Front  On
April 3, the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division was poised to move through
Iraq's Karbala Gap toward Baghdad. The fighting was widely expected to be
tough. Saddam Hussein's back was to the wall, and the Republican Guard's
Medina Division barred the way. The
original plan for the 3rd Division, a "heavy" force of Abrams
tanks and armored Bradley fighting vehicles, followed the precept of Hans
Guderian, legendary German tank commander of World War II: "fist, not
fingers." Armor should deliver a single smashing blow, not be spread
out in weaker individual thrusts.
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Battle Report: Inside Skinny From A Colonel In Iraq The people who attack the truth telling are nothing but a bunch of cheerleaders, who are knowingly turning a blind eye to the OVERALL outcome of the plan. They continue to bring up the fact that 3ID and 1st Marines were able to continue the attack into Baghdad, despite the Fedayeen and Irregulars who attacked the MSR and were held up in the towns and cities bypassed by the attack. I agree, this was the case. I believe the 3ID and Marines kicked ass against the Fedayeen and the Irregular Isamic Volunteers, but, this is not reason I say we went in too light with not enough force. Full Story New New York Times Ad This ad [PDF 2MB] linking tax cuts to the rich with shafting veterans and their families.
Operation Iraqi Freedom: Living Conditions  View Photos MOAB: Up Close  View Photos Parent Worries I Just finished reading STEEL MY SOLDIER'S HEARTS I was a great read and I really enjoyed it. Perhaps you could help me with an issue. When I was reading about the 4/39 th and how screwed up it was when you first took over, it reminded me of when I went to visit my son at FT. Riley in October of 2002. Full Story Comments From A Warrior In Afghanistan “You are right about the Army having no institutional memory. Worse, most of the officers don’t even read anything. I would say that about one in twenty officers that I know even reads any military history. A lot of these young lieutenants and captains are so into chat rooms, video games and DVD’s that they are experts at PlayStation2, but probably think that Sun Tsu is some kind of dietary supplement. Full Story Disappointed
Soldier
I spent most of my adult life in the active army, getting out around 2 years ago. I found myself spending more and more time dealing with micro-managing CO's, doing stupid dog and pony shows for brass haters, and less and less of my time performing anything remotely like training myself and my soldiers for combat. Full Story America's
Defense Posture
Acknowledging that our nation was wrong to encourage Saddam to take military action against tiny Kuwait via the foreign policy communicated in July 1990, we were wrong not to finish the job and depose the Iraqi regime when we had the chance. Full Story
Hacks
Latest Interview:
'Look Truth Right in the Eye' Hack talked recently with Naval Institute editors Fred L. Schultz and Gordon Keiser in Washington, D.C. Full Story Homeland
Protection:
Training Device's: Bomb Vest & Briefcase Bomb  Pictures of bombs currently being used by suicide bombers in Israel. More Photos A
Ranger SGT Sounds Off
Your critique of the disaster in Mogadishu, Somalia was dead on too. Believe it or not, a couple of weeks prior to the battle, I predicted exactly what would happen. We were watching an account of one of Task Force Ranger's fast rope operations on CNN, and I said: "I don't like this" Full Story
Know Your Schitt Full
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CHEM/BIO
Suits Limit Iraq War Window
WASHINGTON - A member of an Army chemical and biological response team wearing a chemical protective suit fainted under the hot lights of the Pentagon press room during a briefing Tuesday, underscoring one of the key concerns about starting a desert war with Iraq: the heat. Full Story The
age-old story of Infantry... cold, wet, hungry, scared...
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Heading
for Trouble
Do we really want to occupy Iraq for the next 30 years? In Japan, American occupation forces quickly became 50,000 friends. In Iraq, they would quickly become 50,000 terrorist targets. Full Story SF:
Atten Hut
The regular brass have told our gallant Special Forces warriors in Afghanistan to shave their beards, polish their boots and break out the starch. Full Story
Pakistan: the New Afghanistan
Trying to refocus America's war on terror, Gen. Tommy Franks couldn't mention the country by name without provoking a collective case of gastric distress in the Bush administration. Full Story Open
Letter to Vice Chairman JCS
The purpose of this letter is to reaffirm some simple truths about what I have experienced in the Army, which may be obscured in today's politically correct environment. Read Letter Bad
Training Hurts in Afghansitan
The fighting in the mountains of Afghanistan revealed some shortcomings in how the Army trains its infantry. This is nothing new. Five to ten years after the last war, training practices become more and more unrealistic. Full Story
Hackworth
Looks To History For How To Fight Terror War Military
The war in Afghanistan is going well, says the administration. The Taliban is gone. Al-Qaida is on the run. Democracy is taking root.The war is not going well, say critics. Al-Qaida is regrouping. Warlords control the areas outside Kabul. Two assassinations have rocked the Karzai regime. Bombings of civilians are costing America the goodwill of Afghanis. Full Story World
War III
You think the world is a safe place, right? The cold war is history? The planet’s sole superpower is untouchable? Think again. Read Hacks August 2000 Maxim Article.
Know
Your Enemy:
The majority of the press continues to apply western theories and behaviors to an enemy that is using 21st century technology and a 7th century Islamic call to spread Islam through out the world by any means necessary. Terrorism and mass murder included. The entire Western Civilization is approaching its defining moment. This is the time to fight or submit. We have no other option. Full Story SF
Team Guy
Individual SF Soldiers are doing an excellent job at the Team level in the war despite complete incompetence at SOCCENT and CENTCOM by senior level commanders. Full Story Career
Opportunities In Armed Anthropology
The us army is seeking Intelligent, creative, athletic men of character with degrees in anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, foreign language or regional studies Who are looking for interesting careers fighting evil promoting civilization and liberating the oppressed. Full Story [PDF] Black Hawk Down: Humanitarian Or For The Black Buck The Los Angeles Times ran this article nine months before Black Hawk Down. Were we there to help the Somalian people or help the oil tycoons? Guess only Bush I and a few of his insiders know the answers. My buck is on oil. Hack more Hack's
Medal Flap with CBS
In 1997, CBS News accused Hack of wearing a Ranger Tab and claiming an extra Distinguished Flying Cross on his web site. Hack had the Department of the Army audit his military honors. Here are the results of their study. Decide for yourself who is the liar. more Military
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