Cincinnatus in the Pentagon: A Review of Robert Gates’ Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
“I feel a personal responsibility for each and every one of you…I feel the sacrifice and hardship and losses more …
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The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
The Canadian Forces are preparing to finish withdrawing from Afghanistan in mid-2014. Looking back over our decade-long military involvement, the …
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The Taliban Don’t Wave
Former Captain Semrau was charged with murder, attempted murder, failure to perform a military duty, and conduct unbecoming an officer …
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Mass Extinction? Us?
Venkman: “This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions!” Mayor: “What do you mean biblical?” Stantz: “What he …
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Yankee Doodle Got all Stuck
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” — Albert Einstein, Letter to William Frauenglass, 1953 A bibliophile who finds him …
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Learning in a Hard School
“With two thousand years of examples behind us, we have no excuses when fighting for not fighting well.” — Attributed …
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The Counter-insurgency Challenge: A Parable of Leadership and Decision Making in Modern Conflict
During and after any conflict, soldiers, analysts, and others try to parse and publish the hard lessons learned on the …
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Full Bore on the Tar Sands!
It’s hard for anybody who loves the civic virtues in Canada not to adore Ezra Levant. A happy warrior, if …
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Excuse me, your citizens are mustering
When a country finds that a huge chunk of its middle class citizens have organized themselves through social networking systems …
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Why do we war with each other, and how do we stop it?
Violence is as squalid, brutal and destructive to the psyche as to the body… yet why does it fascinate us …