A couple new dispatches from Michael Yon on AfPak. First, part three of three of a series entitled Death in the Corn. Good stuff, even if just for the pictures. The first paragraph sums it up: Living with British troops of 2 Para at FOB Gibraltar and watching them...
Another Yon article that you should read. Our soldiers kill them constantly, but they keep coming. The Taliban I have seen so far are stupid compared to the enemies we faced in Iraq. The Taliban in this area are easy to kill, but there are so many of them. For safety...
Michael Yon has a great new article up on a recent top-secret 10-day mission in Afghanistan that is supposedly the largest British logistics operation since World War II. The mission was the delivery of a second electric turbine to the Kajaki Dam, the second-largest...
Long time readers (all three of you) will remember my admonitions to read Michael Yon’s book Moment of Truth in Iraq. Mr. Yon is an independent reporter who has spent more time in Iraq than any other journalist over the last five years. By now, no credible...
They recruit young, poor and uneducated to take part in the “struggle” against Western aggressors. What they can promise these young men I don’t know. What exactly is it that can induce a young Somalian, or Saudi, or Uzbek, or Chechen travel all the...
