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Michael Yon attends Holland’s memorial for the 65th anniversary of the Allied liberation from Nazi occupation, with lots of interesting photographs as always: Market Garden.
Michael Yon has a new report from Afghanistan, including a video clip: Two Firefights: One Video. [Video] This weekend we lost eight more soldiers in a firefight. I learned about it while they were still fighting, but did not report it until just before the media broke the story ...
Another terrific post full of photographs from Afghanistan, by Michael Yon: Pedros.
Michael Yon has another report from Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, as usual with excellent photographs and commentary: Eight Years After 9/11.
Michael Yon emailed to let me know he’s now unembedded in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Here’s his latest dispatch: New Afghan war: Frontline correspondent says fight has morphed – but we still can’t afford to lose.
Michael Yon’s latest must-read report from Afghanistan paints a pretty grim picture; he says the British are losing Helmand Province.
Michael Yon is no longer embedded with British forces in Afghanistan; he’s moved over to the US Air Force. (He doesn’t say why, but he does write that it was a “sudden ending of my embed.”) UPDATE at 8/27/09 1:18:45 pm: Chalk it up to bureaucracy.
Michael Yon emails from Afghanistan to say, “It’s the wild west out here:” Bad Medicine. Lots of riveting photos, as always.
Another photo-filled essay from Afghanistan by Michael Yon, memorializing lost comrades as the fighting heats up: The Kopp-Etchells Effect.
Another report from the indispensable Michael Yon, in Afghanistan with the British Army: No Young Soldiers.
Michael Yon, Afghanistan, Military, War, Anti-Jihad, Photograph
Michael Yon emailed this striking photograph of a helicopter landing in hot, dusty conditions in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Michael Yon, Afghanistan, Military, War, Anti-Jihad, Photograph
Michael Yon reports from Afghanistan on a disturbing development. UPDATE at 8/6/09 11:11:27 am: I realized that some readers will probably assume that the idea of granting habeas corpus rights to all battlefield detainees comes from the Obama administration, so please note: the administration is opposed to the ruling. ...
Another great must-read report with plenty of photos by Michael Yon, embedded with the British Army in Sangin, Afghanistan: Resurrection.
Michael Yon in Afghanistan’s Helmand River valley: An Artery of Opium, a Vein of Taliban.
Michael Yon emailed to say he expects to be in combat by the time you read this; here’s his last peaceful dispatch for a while (he says), with lots of fascinating photographs: Some Photos and Captions.
Michael Yon is going back into combat in Afghanistan, alongside the real anti-jihad activists — the US Marines.
Michael Yon is with the real anti-jihad activists (aka, the US and British military) in Afghanistan, and has another must-read report filled with photographs of a very productive lizard hunt: Searching for Kuchi & Finding Lizards.
Michael Yon is back in Afghanistan. Kabul has changed. In recent years the roads were often clogged with military convoys, filling the town with aggravations and dangers often caused by the mere presence of large numbers of soldiers in proximity to the dusty beehive called Kabul. Yesterday, in a ...
Here’s a disturbing article at PJ Media by Patrick Poole on the Strategic Collapse at the Army War College. Two weeks ago, Ricks reported on a new publication by Army War College research professor Sherifa Zuhur on Hamas and Israel that informs readers that Hamas has been misunderstood due ...
Some interesting thoughts on “secular liberal intellectuals,” from Timothy Sandefur: What would Leo Szilard do? I’ve been reading a lot lately about the construction of the atomic bomb during World War II and particular about the scientific community’s attitude toward the making and dropping of the bomb. And it’s ...
Victor Davis Hanson takes a year-end look at the Iraq War: A Long War In a Nutshell.
NRO is conducting a video interview with Victor Davis Hanson on War and History: Chapter 1 of 5.
If things seem like they’re getting worse in the Middle East, it’s because they are. The divisive cut and run policies of the Democrats, and the general fecklessness of Western societies in the face of radical Islamic extortion and bullying, have emboldened the dictators of the Islamic Axis to a ...
The lessons are clear. If you’re going to commit your nation to a war, do it all the way, no half measures. Tell the truth about the enemy. Don’t stop until it’s truly finished, no matter what the “international community” says. I have no intention to resign, Olmert says. ...
LGF, Olmert, Israel, Politics, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hizbullah, War
This is a good statement, I suppose. But why in the world should it even need to be said? Bush: U.S. troops may protect selves from Iranians. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Friday U.S. forces in Iraq have authority to protect themselves against Iranians attempting to ...