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Friday, February 17, 2017

Russia and America: Destined to Conflict

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Nearly 200 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville visited America and wrote one of the most important books on America and American politics eve...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Barracks Talk, Locker Room Talk and Old Soldiers

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A few short years ago, when I was 59 years old, I was assigned to a field barracks in Northern Michigan with a unit I had never trained o...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Volunteer Army Consolidated Mess

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Consolidate Mess line, or German prisoners marching out of Stalingrad? In almost every way, I liked the draft Army and the Cold War Ar...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

One Last Haircut: World War II Vet Shares a Story After Forty Years

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Elias King learned to cut hair while serving as a gunner’s mate on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II.   When I met him in 198...
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 ...