Entries from Searchlight Crusade tagged with 'military'

Conquest May Be Bad, But It Is The Natural Way of Things

Here's an article that got me thinking Bulgarian archaeologists discover ancient Thracian chariot These were the same Thracians spoken of in all those Greek and Roman records and mythical stories. Thracians appear in Classical literature starting with The Illiad. What...

Project VALOUR IT

I know I'm behind the power curve in posting this. I'll put Team Marines on my other site, San Diego having large numbers of both. This will stay on top until the weekend. Scroll down for new posts. Explanation here...

Links and Minifeatures 06 07 Wednesday

Carnival of The Vanities Recommended: Soccer Dad (saving the lives of children with defects) ********** The Carnival of The Vanities Host said of my submission I should warn you that Dan might tell you something you don't want to hear....

Links and Minifeatures 05 19 Friday

Local News is treating the Marine Investigation as if guilt were an established fact, rather than merely under Investigation Report: Local Marines Killed Women, Children Military officials said Thursday that a criminal investigation into a firefight in western Iraq that...

The Perfect War

Dr. Sanity has a wonderful article about the demand for an antiseptically perfect war, with no collateral damage, no casualties (certainly no bystanders), and everything wrapped up in a nice little package before the attention span of the american public,...

The Perceived Will to Fight

Dean's World has a great article about the Ignored Iron Triangle of Power. The money quote: To sum all this up by a political equation: Power = capabilities X interest X will If any of the elements on the...

Links and Minifeatures 03 06 Monday

Carnivals: Carnival of Debt Reduction RINO Sightings Recommended: Ex Donkey, Techography Carnival of Capitalists Carnival of Personal Finance Recommended: Million Dollar Goal Carnival of Investing ********** Looks like my local rag has decided to sponsor a blog. Here's the link....

Is the United States Worth Defending?

The question of where anyone's priorities are begs the question of "Where do your loyalties lie?" I am loyal first to the long term good of humanity. I want as many people as possible to live the best lives possible....

Recent US Political and Military History and the War on Terror

War on Terror: I think Scrappleface sums it up completely: Bush Pushes Funding of 'Fear Gene' Research by Scott Ott (2005-11-18) -- Reacting quickly to new a study, published in the journal Cell, that shows timid mice can be made...

Prevent This From Happening to Us

The Last of the Light Brigade There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night. They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade;...

Links and Minifeatures 2005 08 07 (Sunday)

To leave the field clear for RINO Sightings here tomorrow, other posting will be light. No daily personal finance post, and any links/minifeatures I do will not post until Tuesday. I will continue with the saga of the illegal Border...

US Military Mercenary? I Think Not.

david M. Kennedy, a Stanford professor who's nose is so elevated he evidently cannot read a dictionary, has a piece in the NY Slimes on our 'mercenary' army. From American Spirit Political Dictionary: mercenary - a person who offers his...

Military Utility

From Dean Esmay, who wonders: Why then did they announce the crash of an obsolete plane? Likely because the plane that did crash was one of the modern upgraded U-2 variants, which are pretty rugged but are complex machines and...

Military Spyplanes

From Dean Esmay Tried to comment on his site but he's got permissions set higher than I do. Imagine: a big name long time blogger having permissions set higher than a fresh newbie. Go figure. :-) May I suggest a...

On Military Recruiting

From Lt. Smash at Indepundit I never served. But that doesn't mean that I don't respect and admire those who do or have, most of whom never mention their heroism, as in the case of my old Scoutmaster whom I...