The inimitable Noah Shachtman has been collecting the best military recruiting ads (scroll down) from around the world on Wired’s national security blog, Danger Room.
The ads, of course, focus on what the military can do for you — money, guns and babes — and what you can do for them — dance, sing and throw […]

The major offensives (Phantom Thunder, Arrowhead Ripper, et cetera) in Iraq continue today. The Washington Post has a story here that’s okay. I’m assuming it’s rather hard to find and report “both sides” of the story when the subject is changing so quickly — that is to say, I’m not certain that all the “naysaying” […]

Thank God for PBS. I watched FRONTLINE’s “Endgame” last night on their Web site. If you want to know how we ended up where we are in Iraq, and the new strategy that’s being employed by Gen. Petraeus and American forces in-country, you have to watch this. In fact, it should be required viewing for […]

Are these guys working together?
The House Oversight Committee is demanding that Vice President Cheney explain himself. Is his office part of the executive branch? Part of the legislative branch? Or is Cheney suggesting that as far as federal rules are concerned, his office essentially doesn’t exist?
The issue at hand is Cheney’s insistence that his office […]

I can see Cheney now: For the first time in seven years, he lifts his head, his face brightens and takes on — who knew his face could do this? — a look of complete shock and awe. A look of total innocence.
“What?” he asks. “Us? Classified information? The law? Huh?”
House Democrats on Thursday denounced […]

Badgers Forward says we need to vet and then accept former insurgents into Iraqi Forces. It’s the only way to move forward, he says.
CENTCOM reports that unmanned aerial vehicle teams from 1st Air Cavalry Brigade (ACB) have amassed 20,000 flight hours in the skies over Baghdad.
Last, but certainly not least important, Mary Beth Harrell, the […]

David Axe, reporting from Baghdad on his blog (as I noted yesterday), discusses the opposition in the Netherlands to keeping Dutch troops in Afghanistan.
At Kamp Holland, the Dutch base in southern Afghanistan, the troops are mourning the loss of a second soldier: 44-year-old Sergeant Major Jos Leunissen, who died in a mortar accident during combat […]

I received this e-mail from the Fort Hood Post Exchange (PX) earlier this week:

BOOK SIGNING
JENNA BUSH
COMING SOON TO THE

CLEAR CREEK PX

JENNA WILL BE AT THE PX SIGNING HER NEW BOOK:
“ANA’S STORY”

JENNA BUSH BIO:
Jenna Bush is the daughter of President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush. She graduated from the University of […]

That’s right! Let’s keep on outsourcing our security for military facilities! It’s a great idea!
An armed security guard at Walter Reed Army Medical Center opened fire at another guard Wednesday outside a busy entrance to the hospital, police said. No one was injured.
The guards had been arguing at about 8:30 a.m. when one of them […]

Um, maybe we should think this through:

Antonio N. Zavaleta, a vice president and professor of anthropology at the University of Texas branch in Brownsville, saw a slight problem in the route of a border fence that federal officials displayed at a community meeting earlier this month.
“Part of our university,” Dr. Zavaleta said, “would be on […]