May 2007 Issue
Dream warriors: Our enemies fight for fantasies, not freedom
“Dreams have a vise-like grip on the people of Islam. We never grasped that it was more useful to let our Muslims dream than to build them schools, hospitals and factories.”
BY RALPH PETERS
“Dreams have a vise-like grip on the people of Islam. We never grasped that it was more useful to let our Muslims dream than to build them schools, hospitals and factories.”
BY RALPH PETERS
Our cover story
Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of being part of the team that created the “new AFJ” is seeing the ever-growing and enthusiastic response to the mission we set: to make this a...
Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of being part of the team that created the “new AFJ” is seeing the ever-growing and enthusiastic response to the mission we set: to make this a...
A failure in generalship
For the second time in a generation, the United States faces the prospect of defeat at the hands of an insurgency. In April 1975, the U.S. fled the Republic of Vietnam, abandoning our allies...
By Lt. Col. Paul Yingling
For the second time in a generation, the United States faces the prospect of defeat at the hands of an insurgency. In April 1975, the U.S. fled the Republic of Vietnam, abandoning our allies...
By Lt. Col. Paul Yingling
TO HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI For cozying up to Syrian President Bashar al-Asad with public handshakes and declarations that her delegation had come “in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is...
TO AIR FORCE MAJ. TROY GILBERT An F-16 pilot killed in action in Iraq. Late last year, Gilbert found and circled two heavily armed insurgent trucks that had fired at U.S. ground troops protecting a downed Army helicopter....
TO PRESIDENT BUSH For blatantly circumventing the Senate confirmation process and unnecessarily inflaming Democrats at a time when the focus should be on the war debate. While lawmakers were on spring break,...
Essay: Leader, transform thyself!
Leaders tell us that we have to change. Every senior leader in Washington is proclaiming that we are in a time of unprecedented change. Everything we do must be transformational. But...
By Edward Lundquist
Leaders tell us that we have to change. Every senior leader in Washington is proclaiming that we are in a time of unprecedented change. Everything we do must be transformational. But...
By Edward Lundquist
On guard
Commission reports in Washington, D.C., are sort of like hookers at a Mardi Gras celebration. From a distance, they entice the inexperienced or unaware, but rarely do they look good up...
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
Commission reports in Washington, D.C., are sort of like hookers at a Mardi Gras celebration. From a distance, they entice the inexperienced or unaware, but rarely do they look good up...
BY FRANK G. HOFFMAN
The fourth dimension
The casus belli of the Second Lebanon War, as it is popularly referred to in Israel, was the ambush and kidnapping of two soldiers. The Israeli response to the attack by Hezbollah (Arabic...
BY LT. COL. ABE F. MARRERO
The casus belli of the Second Lebanon War, as it is popularly referred to in Israel, was the ambush and kidnapping of two soldiers. The Israeli response to the attack by Hezbollah (Arabic...
BY LT. COL. ABE F. MARRERO
See no evil
The Bush administration launched the war in Iraq ostensibly to secure weapons of mass destruction and prevent al-Qaida from acquiring them. The president has said repeatedly that nothing is...
By Barry Rosenberg
The Bush administration launched the war in Iraq ostensibly to secure weapons of mass destruction and prevent al-Qaida from acquiring them. The president has said repeatedly that nothing is...
By Barry Rosenberg
Russia rising
In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unusually strong statement that openly blasted the U.S. and NATO. This led pundits to proclaim that Russia, after two decades of...
BY DMITRY SHLAPENTOKH
In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unusually strong statement that openly blasted the U.S. and NATO. This led pundits to proclaim that Russia, after two decades of...
BY DMITRY SHLAPENTOKH
Horn hotbed
Since the early 1990s, the Horn of Africa — the descriptive name for the East African countries of Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan — has been considered by...
BY PETER BROOKES
Since the early 1990s, the Horn of Africa — the descriptive name for the East African countries of Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan — has been considered by...
BY PETER BROOKES
Power struggle
George W. Bush “is the president of the United States, not the king of the United States,” Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., declared. “He has another branch of government, a...
BY WILLIAM MATTHEWS
George W. Bush “is the president of the United States, not the king of the United States,” Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., declared. “He has another branch of government, a...
BY WILLIAM MATTHEWS
Occupation doctrine
THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER DYNAMITE ISSUE OF AFJ. I was particularly interested in how the articles by Joseph J. Collins, Frank Hoffman, Christopher Griffin, Ralph Peters and Maj. Timothy T....
THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER DYNAMITE ISSUE OF AFJ. I was particularly interested in how the articles by Joseph J. Collins, Frank Hoffman, Christopher Griffin, Ralph Peters and Maj. Timothy T....
Numbers game
AS WE HAVE SEEN, ANY ARGUMENT BASED ON STATISTICS naturally subjects itself to opposition using another set of statistics [“The GDP argument,” Inside the Beltway, March]. Tying...
AS WE HAVE SEEN, ANY ARGUMENT BASED ON STATISTICS naturally subjects itself to opposition using another set of statistics [“The GDP argument,” Inside the Beltway, March]. Tying...
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