There was a time when German soldiery was feared for its vaunted combat effectiveness. The Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld, who later achieved immortality as the prophet of military transformation (The Transformation of War) made his early reputation as a combat historian with an insightful comparative study of WWII German and American combat effectiveness [...]

Perhaps tired of bad press, BAT is making “purely commercial decision” in selling it’s 60 percent share to a Singapore-based company:
British American Tobacco is pulling out of North Korea, but insisted the move had nothing to do with political pressure.
The world’s second largest cigarette group, whose brands include Lucky Strike, Kent and Dunhill, said it [...]

Today is the 63rd anniversary of D-Day, the invasion and battle that started on 06 June 1944, lasting until 19 August 1944. In the news today is a story of a GI’s dogtag that finally made it home from Omaha Beach.

Their subtitle for the article, “Anti-Europeanism is a bad response to anti-Americanism.” It presents an excellent example of them - Europeans - simply not getting it:
America’s anti-Europeans have three big complaints about the Old Continent. The first is that Europe is committing demographic and economic suicide. . The second is that, unlike America, Europe is [...]

WaPo lumps Ayaan Hirsi Ali along with Camille Paglia and Michael Moore (!!!) as being one of “idiosyncratic, opinionated, talented, flawed, impossible… iconoclasts, troublemakers, provocateurs, opportunists, polemicists.”
What???!!!
Let’s review who Ayaan Hirsi Ali is:
She scripted an 11-minute film about the Koran and domestic abuse of women that resulted in the throat-slitting assassination of its director, Theo [...]

A territorial dispute between the UK and Spain over a reference to Gibraltar could delay the EU from fully enforcing sanctions on North Korea:
As is known, the ban was agreed by the United Nations last October as one of a number of sanctions against North Korea, following its testing of a nuclear device.
The aim was [...]

This is nothing new, as Joshua points out, however the European Parliament is now taking a closer look into North Korea’s practice of sending workers to various European counties and taking their earnings, which amounts to modern day slavery (노예의 신분). How is this being done? First a large percentage of their pay is deposited [...]

I’d be interested in seeing it, but think better of supporting Kim Jong-il. Or maybe its a scam by a South Korean company ready to cash in on the “Made in DPRK” fad in the ROK. The website is www.i-silverstar.com (IE only), and apparently South Korea will “share its technology know-how” with North Korea. Great.
From [...]

Please take the time to remember the some 10,000 allied casualties from 6 June 1944, and what they were fighting for. I had the opportunity to be there on the 50th anniversary in 1994, and it is a sight to see. It’s also a good reminder that freedom isn’t free, and that both the Hitlers [...]

Recently I wrote of “Russia’s Foolish Alliance with China,” in which I mentioned Ilan Berman.
Berman has written an article, which explains — much more eruditely than I can — of what I call Russia’s foolish alliance with Iran. I share many of its analyses and points. Some choice bits follow.
The background:
For more than a decade, [...]