As published in the Daily Caller: North of Kabul, high in the Hindu Kush mountains, sits Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley. At 8,000 feet up, Panjshir successfully resisted the communists and then, later, the Taliban. It’s famous as the spot where U.S. forces first touched down to team up with the Northern Alliance in 2001. By the […]
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When the next president strides into the oval office on January 20, 2025, the new commander-in-chief will get the keys to a wrecked Department of Defense, with cigarette holes in the upholstery and a gas tank sitting on E.
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Those briefing the president pointed out that Peterson is already home to Northern Command and NORAD. Locating yet another combatant command in the same geographic footprint made little strategic sense. Don’t put all your generals in one basket.
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What Tuberville’s moves threaten to reveal is that senators don’t actually evaluate our nation’s military leaders. Nor do most of their staff. For decades, the Senate has simply coasted along, rubber stamping the nominees from the Pentagon without a second thought.
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In 2022, something changed and, for the first time, the U.S. Army missed its recruiting goals. Not by a little. The Army came up short by 25%, or 15,000 recruits. That’s an entire division.
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The conflict in Ukraine risks devolving into another American “forever war,” or worse, cornering a weakened thermonuclear power.
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Coach needs just one Democrat on the Armed Services committee to swing the vote in his favor. Although staff is signaling Manchin is opposed, take it from this former staffer that anything is possible when the 25 senators of the committee gather in a closed-door session amid the Gilded-Age finery of the Senate Russell Building.
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I grew to love it, though. City time is like dog years: A year in New York equals 7 in Alabama. So when I moved home last April, I had some reentry problems after spending 42 years as a New Yorker. All my black New York clothing had to be discarded. Driving home from the Empire State, I pulled in a rest stop in South Carolina and overheard an old lady ask her friend, “Since when do the Amish drive Cadillacs?” Driving is a big change. Manhattanites use their horns like breathing—it is a natural and constant function, vital to sustaining life. In Birmingham, a horn is a device used as a sort of automotive wave, often blown to get a friend out of his house. My city friends are amazed that in rural areas, one is supposed to raise a two-fingered salute to all passing cars and people. Anything less is rude.
The best tip on tipping doesn’t involve money. Your server is not your servant. Look up from the menu when they come to the table. Don’t begin sentences with “Give me the . . .” or “I’ll have the . . .” Try, “May I please have the prime rib?” or “I see you’re busy, but could I have some more water when you have a chance?” Waiters are some of the hardest working people in business—give them the respect, as well as the tip, they deserve.
Sure, there are some rules. (As a former youth counselor advised, keeping the Holy Spirit between hugging and dancing young folk is probably a good idea although there seems to be some debate over the Spirit’s waistline.) Yet when it comes time to greet an old friend, to welcome a soldier or sailor home, to squeeze out sadness, to convey sheer joy, to comfort a hurt child or simply to say, “I love you,” nothing beats the humble Southern hug.
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