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Top Three Defense Stories of 2010 Revisited

December 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment

During 2010, I researched, wrote and published several stories about issues impacting people on the front lines in defense of this country.  I revisit some of those stories below: MICHAEL BEHENNA 1st Lt. Michael Behenna On July 31, 2008, Army Ranger 1st. Lt. Michael Behenna was charged with the premeditated murder of Ali Mansur, a [...]

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Congress Leads Border Patrol Down Wrong Path

December 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Less than a week after another Border Patrol agent was killed by Mexican bandits, Congress forwarded to the White House a bill that, within two years of its enactment, will result in Customs and Border Patrol heading down the same misguided path the Department of Defense took in 2007 when it comes to interrogation technology. [...]

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Special Forces Units Ignore Memo, Save Lives (Update)

December 7th, 2010 · 11 Comments

By signing a memo Oct. 29, 2007, James R. Clapper Jr. exposed U.S. military personnel to greater-than-necessary danger as they served their country in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots around the world. Then an Under Secretary of Defense and now our nation’s Director of National Intelligence, Clapper designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, [...]

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Experts Agree: It Was A Missile

November 20th, 2010 · 35 Comments

In a post Nov. 9 about the apparent launch of a missile off the California coast one day earlier, I wrote: As a former Air Force public affairs officer who served for nearly two years with the 381st Strategic Missile Wing — think Titan II ICBMs — at McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., [...]

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Missile Launch Incident Raises Serious Questions

November 9th, 2010 · 8 Comments

As a former Air Force public affairs officer who served for nearly two years with the 381st Strategic Missile Wing — think Titan II ICBMs — at McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., I can guarantee with 100 percent certainty that officials inside the Pentagon know the exact location from which the large missile [...]

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Army Mom Pens Powerful Letter to Army Secretary

October 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Fresh on the heels of publishing a piece about Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna’s upcoming review by the Army Court of Appeals, I decided to share — with permission — the text of a letter written by Beverly Perlson — the spark plug behind pro-troops group, The Band of Mothers — to Secretary of [...]

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Will Military’s Homeland Security Mission Grow?

July 10th, 2010 · 11 Comments

One and a half years ago, the folks at the CATO Institute published a piece under the headline, Be Wary of Using Military as Police.  In the opening paragraph, they offered a warning of sorts: The mainstream media has finally gotten around to reporting that the Pentagon has assigned active-duty troops to a homeland defense [...]

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