Archive: Military Manpower
Back to the Beginning
By Clint Douglas The war in Afghanistan is spiraling out of control. Long referred to as "The forgotten war" or "the other war, " Afghanistan demands immediate corrective attention, lest we go the way of our British and Soviet predecessors. Their failure was never predestined to become ours, and yet...
By washingtonpost.com | September 8, 2008; 02:40 PM ET | Comments (1)
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Think
Today's New York Times reports on a data dump obtained by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network about how many people the military kicked out for being gay in 2007. There was a slight uptick in the number of discharges in 2007 over 2006, but what is shocking is the increase...
By Phillip Carter | June 23, 2008; 05:00 PM ET | Comments (17)
Four-Star Heresy
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs commits military heresy in his Army War College commencement speech. Good for him.
By Phillip Carter | June 9, 2008; 09:13 AM ET | Comments (0)
The Few, the Proud, the Bad
Two studies indicate that recruits with arrest records and no high school diploma can do well in the military.
By Phillip Carter | April 30, 2008; 05:35 PM ET | Comments (0)
