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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

"...No Time for That, Gussman:" Book Report 2016, Fiction

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Lt. Col. Scott Perry, Blackhawk Pilot, Battalion Commander, in Iraq, 2009 In December of 2009 Scott Perry, my battalion commander, bur...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Band of Brothers: Book and Video

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One of my favorite memories from the 1-70th Armor barracks in Wiesbaden, West Germany, was the night we watched "The Green Beret...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Blood and Money: The NATO Alliance

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NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been in the news for months. For the first time since the organization was created, an ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Of Course I am Happy! I Know Who the Enemy Is!

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In October 1976, I was on patrol on the East-West German border at Fulda. I saw Soviet tanks on the other side of the border.  We had arr...
Friday, January 20, 2017

The Rommel Effect

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On social media and in news commentary, there is near universal agreement that making General James Mattis Secretary of Defense if a grea...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Book Report 2016, Part 6, Politics

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Of the fifty books I read in 2016, just four are in the category Politics, but every book about war is to some extent about the politics t...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Forty Years Later: U.S. Armored Brigade from Fort Carson Reinforces Europe

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Today an Armored Brigade from Fort Carson, Colorado, arrived in Poland as a show of force to Russia.  More than three thousand mechani...