Category Archives: national security
Padre Steve Reviews “The Wounded Giant: America’s Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity” by Michael O’Hanlon
The Wounded Giant: America’s Armed Forces in an Age of Austerity (An eSpecial from The Penguin Press) • Format: Kindle Edition • File Size: 1685 KB • Publisher: The Penguin Press (November 15, 2011) I was recently asked to do … Continue reading
Atrocity in War: The Afghanistan Video
“Our men can’t make this change from normal civilians into warriors and remain the same people … the abnormal world they have been plunged into, the new philosophies they have had to assume or perish inwardly, the horrors and delights … Continue reading
Filed under iraq,afghanistan, Military, national security, News and current events
Marking the Illusion of Peace: December 6th 1941
A great war was already going on in Europe, Asia and the Middle East but most Americans lived as if war would never happen. It didn’t seem to matter that that Nazi Germany had conquered all of Western Europe and … Continue reading
Filed under History, Military, national security, world war two in the pacific
November 1918: The Month that Changed the World
November 1918 In November 1918 a world was ending and a new one beginning. The Great War which had begun in August 1914 following the assassination of the heir apparent to the Throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire wife on June … Continue reading
The German Revolution 1919-1922: A Warning from History
The Spartacus League brought armed mobs onto the streets of the new and fragile Weimar Republic In light of the increasing revolutionary rhetoric from both the political right and left, the ongoing demonstrations in many American cities that are part of the Occupy … Continue reading
Filed under History, leadership, Military, national security
