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May 9, 2011

A Quiet Remembrance: The Fall of Dien Bien Phu May 7th 1954

French Prisoners On May 7th in Hanoi a small remembrance was held to mark the fall of Dien Bien Phu and honor the victor, 101 year old General Vo Nguyen Giap at his home. It was one of the few … Continue reading →

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Tagged as afghanistan, algeria, an loc, artillery, COIN, colonials, dien bien phu, fgeneral giap, foreign legion, gulf of tonkin, helmand province, hue city, ia drang, iraq, khandehar, khe sanh, ltcol langlais, marcel bigeard, na son, nato, operation castor, osama bin laden, pakistan, tactical air support, taliban, veterans, viet minh, wanat

April 30, 2011

The Disdain of American Business for Military Personnel and their Benefits

“What are you going to trade off — a rich entitlements program, or boots and bullets for the troops?” Richard Spencer Defense Business Review Board (quoted in the Navy Times 2 May 2011 print and internet edition) The Federal Government … Continue reading →

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Filed under Foreign Policy, History, leadership, Military, national security, Politics

Tagged as afghanistan, banking industy, barney greenwald, big business, blackwater, bosnia, combat wounded, defense business review board, defense contractors, defense department budget, entitlement programs, federal debt, federal deficit, federal government, gettysburg film, halliburton, iraq, john buford, kbr, kosovo.somalia, medical retirement, medicare, military pensions, military retirement, miltary deployments, navy times, paul ryan, richard spencer, smedley butler, social security, taxpayer bail outs, the caine mutiny, tricare, veterans administration, wall street, widows pensions

April 12, 2011

Adjusting Strategy to Reality

Taliban Fighters “The core goal of the U.S. strategy in the Afghanistan and Pakistan theater remains to disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat al-Qa’ida in the region and to prevent its return to either country…” US Strategy in Afghanistan for 2011 … Continue reading →

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Tagged as afghanistan, osama bin laden, barak obama, clausewitz, india pakistan conflict, taliban, adolf hitler, nato, saddam hussein, centcom, cia, stalingrad, pakistan, mohammed karzai, General David Petreus, dick cheney, israel, lebanon, saudi arabia, al qaeda, paul bremer, coalition provisional authority, napoleon bonaparte, iraq war, yemen, egyptian revolution, syria, jordan protests, war on terrorism, libyan revolution, palestine, bush administration, donald rumsfeld, george bush, general stanley mccrystal, pakistani taliban, national strategy, afghanistan strategy, strategic withdraw, costs of afghan war, isi, Ahmed Shuja Pasha, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, opium trade

April 10, 2011

Changes of Plans: It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts

Dinner as a Guest of Brigadier General Sabah of 7th Iraqi Division Today I was planning on traveling about an hour from here up to Kinston to see the Kinston Indians play the Winston-Salem Dash. That did not happen as … Continue reading →

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Tagged as afghanistan, army chaplain corps, Baseball, bobby cox, bronze star, bull durham, chaplain corps, chaplain rich whaley, chaplains as non-combatants, colonel david abramowitz, colonel jim wigger, crash davis, earl weaver, ebby calvin laloosh, geneva convention, iraq, military awards, military chaplains, navy chaplain corps, nelson lebron, non-combatant status, nuke laloosh, operation desert storm, operation iraqi freedom, purple heart, stolen valor

April 6, 2011

An Unnecessary Condition of Affairs

“The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forbearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.” Robert E. Lee I am always attracted to military leaders with a tragic and honorable history, men … Continue reading →

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Tagged as 2011 budget battle, afghanistan, american civil war, bank bailouts, banking crisis of 2008, campaign contributions, confederate congress, corporate control of political process, dehumanizing enemies, democratic p, executive branch, french revolution, history of the world part one, home foreclosures, iraq, jacobins, libertarian party, libyan intervention, mel brooks, nancy pelosi, napoleon bonaparte, politicians, preachers, pundits, republican party, robert e lee, robert e lee quotes, siege of petersburg, supreme court, tea party, the balkan wars, the balkans, theodore roosevelt, thomas jefferson, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) of 2008, us house of representatives, us senate

March 30, 2011

A Return to God in the Empty Places

Three years and some change have passed since I returned from Iraq. I originally wrote this article for my former church immediately after returning home. At the time that I wrote it I was well on the way to my … Continue reading →

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Tagged as afghanistan, afghanistan veterans, bernard fall, chaplain trinquant, chaplains at dien bien phu, counterinsurgency, cross of nails coventry cathedral, dien bien phu the battle america forgot, french algeria, french colonials, french foreign legion, french indochina, french paras, god and war, god in the empty places, hell in a very small place, howard simpson, insurgency, iraq veterans, iraq war, jules roy, kaiser wilhelm memorial church berlin, khe sahn, korean war, kurt reuber, madonna of stalingrad, martin windrow, military chaplains, stalingrad, the battle of dien bien phu, the greatest generation, the last valley, unpopular wars, vietnam veterans, vietnam war, world war ii, world war ii veterans

March 29, 2011

The Front Page: Padre Steve talks about a Newspaper Interview on His Battle with PTSD

“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer I was interviewed about a week and a half ago by Hope Hodge a reporter for the Jacksonville Daily News. The paper had discovered me through an article … Continue reading →

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Tagged as advisers, afghanistan, al qaeda, battle of hue city, captain Daniel Zinder usn, chuck beckley, dietrich bonhoeffer, faith, gordon biersch virginia beach, harbor park, hope hodge, iraq convoys, iraq war, iraqi army, jacksonville daily news, loss of faith, PTSD, ptsd stigma, ptsd treatment, ramadi, raymond applewhite, robert e lee, route uranium, veterans administration, vietnam, vietnam veterans, wounds of war

March 25, 2011

Padre Steve’s Primer on the Muddle East

“When you are up to your arse in alligators it is hard to remember that your mission is to drain the swamp.” Old British Colonial Saying During the dark days of World War Two when Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was … Continue reading →

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Filed under Foreign Policy, History, middle east, national security

Tagged as 2008 israel hamas war, 9-11 2001, afghanistan, afghanistan government corruption, algeria, alqaeda, anbar awakening, arab despots, arab spring, arab-israeli conflict, “When you are up to your arse in alligators it is hard to remember that your mission is to drain the swamp.”, bahrain, ben ali, britain, british use of poison gas in iraq, collapse of soviet union, egypt, egypt-israeli peace settlement, erwin rommel, european colonialism, fatah, france, george h w bush, gulf war, hamas, hezbollah, hosni mubarak, iran, iran influence in lebanon, iran-iraq war, iranian revolution, iranian revolutionary guard, iraq, iraq civil war, iraq insurgency, israel, israeli hezbollah war 2006, italy, jordan, khobar towers bombing, lebanon, libya, middle east, middle east uprisings, middle east wars, muammar gaddafi, muddle east, mujahedeen, oil companies, operation desert storm, operation iraqi freedom, osama bin laden, ottoman empire, pakistan, palestine, palestinian authority, saddam hussein, saudi arabia, shah of iran, soviet union, syria, taliban, tango uniform, tunisia, u s policy in iraq, united nations, united states, us foreign policy in the middle east, uss cole bombing, warsaw pact, world trade center attack, world trade center bombing 1994, world war i, world war ii, yemen

March 11, 2011

Gaddafi Taunts the West and Kills his People: Our inaction speaks so loud he can’t hear a Word that we are Saying

Back when I was a sophomore in high school I played my one and one season of organized tackle football. I wasn’t very good and after seven weeks of not getting to play in a game, the last of which … Continue reading →

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Tagged as afghanistan, african union, arab league, bosnia crisis of 1996, david cameron, duke pasquini, iraq war, kosovo, libya, libyan military, libyan revolution, muammar gaddafi, nato, nicholas sarkozy, no fly zone, oil prices, president barak obama, saif el islam ghaddafi, united nations, world economy, your actions speak so loud i can't hear a word that you are saying

March 6, 2011

Notes on a Trip to Houston

I have been travelling this week to a Chaplain and Clergy conference of my church, the Apostolic Catholic Orthodox Church in Houston Texas. It has been a really interesting trip. Just a few notes to make as I sit in … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: afghanistan

A Quiet Remembrance: The Fall of Dien Bien Phu May 7th 1954

Adjusting Strategy to Reality

Changes of Plans: It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts

An Unnecessary Condition of Affairs

A Return to God in the Empty Places

The Front Page: Padre Steve talks about a Newspaper Interview on His Battle with PTSD

Padre Steve’s Primer on the Muddle East

Gaddafi Taunts the West and Kills his People: Our inaction speaks so loud he can’t hear a Word that we are Saying

Notes on a Trip to Houston

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