Why Are We Seeing So Many Military Officers Being Relieved Of Duty?

Why are we seeing so many senior officers being replaced for “A lack of confidence” in their leadership qualities these days? It’s a system that is supposed to weed out weak leaders before they can be in a position to do real harm. Maybe the way we now evaluate leadership has changed and we didn’t notice it.

First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA to Avenge 9/11- Review

Award-winning author Toby Harnden has written a riveting account of the very first days of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan that followed the September 11th Attacks in 2001. Harnden’s book, “First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA to Avenge 9/11,” relies extensively on personal interviews with the particpants of these early battles to overthrow Taliban control of Afghanistan.

Did FDR Give His “Day of Infamy” Pearl Harbor Speech High on Cocaine? 

Under The Influence In one of the stranger, side-stories about Pearl Harbor and the immediate aftermath is the story that when President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his speech to Congress on December 8, 1941, after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, that he quite possibly was under the influence of cocaine.  The issue was […]

Identity Versus Personality in and out of the Military

This piece will focus on the identity categories of age and social status. I believe that these two categories coincide in the military: the expectation is that in order to achieve one of them, you must have the other. The military has a very fixed structure and a distinction between the officer and enlisted ranks. […]