by Harold C. Hutchison

Strategypage, February 10, 2007

Bush is wrong: Iraq is not Vietnam

By John Keegan

The Guardian, 10 Oct 06

Your view: Has Iraq become the new Vietnam?

Veteran Invasion

Some veterans are "popping smokeâ for the allure of riches and stardom in Hollywood's film and television industry.

by John Dowling

http://www.gijobs.net/, Mar 2007

Military News Results

http://www.military.com/

Interview with singer Melanie Dekker who sings Fall In (Wounded Soldier) on her latest album Revealed.  Now available on CDBaby.

Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge Melanie Dekker and Chris Buttner.  I would like to thank Tom Krogstad for helping out in a pinch.

Oliver North: Remaining Unfaithful

By Michael Fumento

www.fumento.com

February 22, 2007

On December 6, Marine Maj. Megan McClung, Army Capt. Travis Patriquin, and Army Spc. Vincent Pomante were killed instantly in Ramadi when their Humvee was ripped apart by an IED. At the time, they were accompanying Fox TV's Ollie North and his crew plus a Newsweek reporter to their embed positions. Newsweek never even mentioned their deaths. North subsequently noted McClung's death, while ignoring that of the soldiers. He also made no mention that any of them died helping him. Fox went even further, falsely claiming on February 7th that they radioed while supporting combat operations.  Sorry, embedding is not a combat operation. North had a chance to change this during his "War Stories" broadcast of Feb. 11, when he mentioned the deaths. But all he said was they occurred, "while War Stories was embedded with 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division."  These three people, including the top female Marine to perish in Iraq, died helping North with his mission and he refuses to acknowledge it. Obviously "Semper Fidelis," for all of his grandstanding, means nothing to him.

by Austin Bay

http://www.strategypage.com/

February 20, 2007

"More troops" isn't the most significant aspect of the military "surge" in Iraq. Since at least fall 2003, an increase of 5,000 to 10,000 troops over a three-month window has been an option for coalition forces. Adding 20,000 troops to Iraq in a five- to six-month window is a significant increase but in and of itself not decisive, and certainly not a "new strategy." The relentless, focused targeting of Shia and Sunni extremist organizations is a far more important feature of what Iraqis are calling "the new security plan" than more U.S. troops. The coalition's effort to better integrate the economic and political development "lines of operation" with security operations could have greater long-term effects. Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of the new security plan is the increased aggressiveness of the Iraqi Army as it conducts counterinsurgent operations. The Iraqi military defeat of the cultist "Soldiers of Heaven" planned attack on Najaf in late January provides a dramatic example. Last week, in a phone interview with journalists and commentators, coalition spokesman U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell discussed how his Strategic Effects Office works with the Iraqi government on this issue. President Maliki has the political capital to implement the program.

Military.com Opinion

Kathy Roth-Douquet  February 01, 2007

Our Decider-in-Chief plans to send more troops to Iraq whether Congress likes it or not, saying, "I've made my decision."

Kathy Roth-Douquet is the co-author of AWOL -- The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service-and How it Hurts Our Country.

http://www.roth-douquet.com/

This podcast is now on internet radio.  The dial in number is (646) 652-4845.  The show will be on 29 Jan 07 at 1300 HRS.  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/

To those ends, no more recitation of old articles.  Every week Ãïï fresh, new articles.  This week the offerings are my reactions to the recent Henry Winkler movie HOME OF THE BRAVE and selections from an interview with Tucker Smallwood.  I saw this movie as a premier and was duly unimpressed.  A short interlude provided by Michael Medved is his reaction to FLYBOYS.

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on Strategypage.com

by Austin Bay  November 15, 2006

Iraqis haven't forgotten the aftermath of Desert Storm.  Shia Arabs and Kurds throughout Iraq rose up against Saddam's tyranny anticipating liberation. Instead, they got a dose of so-called Realpolitik -- mass murder and a return to dictatorship.

Pity any American military commander tasked with overseeing a post-Saddam Baghdad.  U.S. and allied forces liberating Iraq will attempt -- more or less simultaneously -- to end combat operations, cork public passions, disarm Iraqi battalions, bury the dead, generate electricity, pump potable water, bring law out of embittering lawlessness, empty jails of political prisoners, pack jails with criminals, turn armed partisans into peaceful citizens, re-arm local cops who were once enemy infantry, shoot terrorists, thwart chiselers, carpetbaggers and black-marketeers, fix sewers, feed refugees, patch potholes and get trash trucks rolling, and accomplish all this under the lidless gaze of Peter Jennings and Al-Jazeera.

Read COL Bay's articles at austinbay.com.

Here's another one for the "yeh right" school."

Film Producer Oliver Stone accusses Hollywood of promoting war.

Associated Press | January 06, 2006 

WASHINGTON - Rep. John Murtha says the military is blaming him for a recruitment slump instead of recognizing mistakes that have led to an enlistment shortage.

Welcome to The Military and The Media (TMTM) Podcast #4 presented by The Hollywood Military Advisor in association with L&M Productions being produced in lovely downtown Fullerton, CA.

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Originally published on 19 September 2001 in emagazine Suite101.

Title:  Hollywood and Those "Special" Guys (and Gals)

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Military News Results for June 2006

In Military.com

Essay

My Lunch With Janice Karpinski

by Armed Liberal at May 16, 2006 07:06 AM

Joe Katzman

Next session â George Crile and Charlie Wilsonâs War

I would like to leave you with the music of Alex Beaton, âHey Johnnie Cope.â

by Dr. Demarche

http://dailydemarche.blogspot.com/

dr.demarche@gmail.com

Dr Demarche's diagnosis: Face the truth, do what is right.

Taking no sides and taking no prisoners, The Military and The Media Minute is a companion piece to The Military and The Media podcast wherein The Hollywood Military Advisor looks at current media articles and how they effect and are affected by the military.

Taking examples from Reason Online, StrategyPage, Christian Science Monitor, and AinÃ??t It Cool News and many other sources, in one minute we take a look at how the current US entertainment and news media looks at our military.

So, sit back.  Relax.  And give a listen to The Military and The Media Minute.

Welcome to The Military and The Media (TMTM) Podcast #3 presented by The Hollywood Military Advisor in association with L&M Productions being produced in lovely downtown Fullerton, CA.

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Originally published on 19 September 2001 in emagazine Suite101.

Title:  The Next Afghan War

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Published on April 12, 2006 in Military.com

Ex-generals Show Some Spine

Joe Galloway

Essay

Published April 17, 2006 issue of New York Magazine

Missions Accomplished - If the public is wary of the real-life war, why are viewers eating up shows about a gung-ho military?

By Adam Sternbergh

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I would like to leave you with the music of Alex Beaton, ÃÂÃÂÂÃÂÂTwa Recruiting Sergeants.ÃÂÃÂÂÃÂÂ