Baby You Can Sign My Car
At this point, I can almost imagine "Rummy" becoming the trivia answer to "who was the Defense Secretary before Robert Gates?"
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British Army Accused of Sexual Abuse of Detainees in Iraq
I sympathise with arguments to say that only through release of such images can the world know the full extent of what happened, but I also doubt what we can actually and accurately “know” from photographs that we wouldn’t otherwise learn through full disclosure and description of events. ......
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Veteran’s Code
Picture of Native-American veterans on Veterans Day give us pause to consider how inclusive a society we're actually fighting for.
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Fort Drum: The Sound of No Hands Clapping
If the disease is the war, and a culture of trauma, anger and violence at Fort Hood, applying meditation and stress management techniques sends the message to the soldier that the distress lies within the individual.
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Our Soldiers of Islam
It's not often I say this, but this photo by Dallas Morning News photographer Sonya N. Hebert offers a powerful, important and very timely contribution following Maj. Nidal Hasan's Ft. Hood killing spree.
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The "U.S.S. World Trade Center" in Front of… Well, You Get the Drift
Think anybody is going to bat an eye about a new amphibious transport ship when you name it the U.S.S. New York, melt 7.5 tons of World Trade Center steel into it, then preview it in the New York harbor in line with where the Trade Towers stood
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The End is Near!
The latest photo from the White House Flickr Stream (posted yesterday -- only a few hours after it was taken) reminds us that the end is near.
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War and Baseball Do Mix
With all the service photo-ops lately, I'm having more and more trouble separating the Administration's "support our troops" meme from the outright endorsement of militarism and even pro-war cheerleading. Michelle Obama's World Series pre-game event blurred the lines that much more.
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Counterterrorism’s Mise En Scene
Obama visited the set of "24"! Where's Jack Bauer? Where's Chloe?
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BAGnewsNotes "Our Man at the G20" Exclusive Slideshow: The Paramilitary View
Watch the BAGnewsNotes "Our Man at the G20" exclusive slideshow, "The Paramilitary View," with images by photojournalist Jason Andrew.
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Face of America: Mercenaries Still Out Front
This morning's NYT details the historic and eye-popping percentage of mercenaries and outside contractors running America's war in Afghanistan. One has only to scan the newswire pics concerning Afghanistan to turn up a specimen like this.
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F-22 Slapped Around A Little, But Oh Still So Hot
So the media is trumpeting a major victory for the White House because the Senate voted, under threat of a veto, to "only" build 187 more F-22 Raptors instead of 194.
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American Mettle
It's not that I'm advocating a full bore U.S. military defense of the Iranian reformers. I am wondering, however, how far the situation has to go before a more vigorous American effort does merit deployment in the name of democracy.
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Pink skivvies: Whitewashing The Afghan Campaign
So this May 11 image of Spc. Zachary Boyd of Fort Worth, Texas, fighting the Taliban in his pink "I love NY" boxer shorts has "gone iconic." ...How Norman Rockwell.
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Your Turn: Obama’s New Afghan Commander, Lady Liberty, Bucking Broncos (And Those Precious Bodily Fluids)
I'm really fascinated by this single photo of Obama with new Afghan commander McChrystal (of black ops fame) in the Oval Office offered up by Pete Souza on the WH Flickr stream.
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Ship Shape
Tacking right at Annapolis just before Memorial Day weekend, Obama couldn't get better pictures.
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Learning For Life
Notice how the same toy guns that seem harmless in the photo alongside the bus appear threateningly dangerous in the bottom image.
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Really, I Thought Things Were Going To Be Different
What makes me almost ill looking at this little boy playing with a Gatling gun during an Air Force air show is that I can't tell how much irony was intended.
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