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The Quakers' Colonel: June 2006
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Col Dan Smith, USA (Ret.) Talks About Military Affairs. Friday, June 30, 2006. The Court, the People, and the President. Where, as here, no emergency prevents consultation with Congress. Just this much of Justice Stephen Breyer’s concurring opinion in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld serves to reassert and restore the Constitution of the United States to its rightful place as the embodiment of the idea that a just society rests on the rule of law, not the rule of men. When it was over, 2,500,000 people in 13 British ...
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The Quakers' Colonel: September 2006
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Col Dan Smith, USA (Ret.) Talks About Military Affairs. Saturday, September 16, 2006. What's Not to Understand About "No Torture"? Two week hiatus due to annual holiday.). What’s not to understand about No Torture? At Friday’s press conference, President Bush did another version of his with me or against me routine, declaring:. That the once-secret CIA program of secret prisons and secret interrogations of high value terrorists has been crucial in stopping terrorist attacks in the U.S. and abroad;. A fin...
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The Quakers' Colonel: December 2006
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Col Dan Smith, USA (Ret.) Talks About Military Affairs. Friday, December 29, 2006. Modern western society operates at such a frenetic pace that we as individuals often remark at "how time flies." Yet it is not time per se that moves at different speeds but our ability (or dis-ability) to absorb the plethora of events that flood our sensory organs and cascade like a huge waterfall into our mental faculties. Four more U.S. fatalities will mark the 3,000 U.S. military death in Iraq. Links to this post.
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The Quakers' Colonel: May 2006
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Col Dan Smith, USA (Ret.) Talks About Military Affairs. Wednesday, May 31, 2006. Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. If that quote is not your cup of tea, there’s always Bloody Kansas in the British sense of bloody (a swear word). Parkinson is not the only one to switch. The current lieutenant governor, who is retiring, made a similar switch to run four years ago. Moreover, a prominent state district attorney, Paul Morrison, has switched to challenge the state’s attorney general. Now everyo...
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The Quakers' Colonel: July 2006
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Col Dan Smith, USA (Ret.) Talks About Military Affairs. Monday, July 31, 2006. Seeing the Real Blood and Guts. As the calendar turns from July to August, Washington is in the hot seat both literally temperatures are to rise above the 100 degree (F) mark and figuratively in terms of the sudden upsurge in violence in a number of localities. So what will stop the growing carnage, the death and destruction? One wonder’s what the cost will be when the checks are filled in and cashed. In Afghanistan, U.S&#...
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The Quakers' Colonel: March 2006
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Col Dan Smith, USA (Ret.) Talks About Military Affairs. Friday, March 31, 2006. Army Recruiting: Connecting the Dots. It was inevitable another case of not if but when. Moreover, all the dots were there they just were not connected to form a picture. In November 2005, the Government Accountability Office issued GAO-06-134, a report generously entitled Military Personnel: DOD Needs Action Plan To Address Enlisted Personnel Recruitment and Retention Challenges. One of life’s many maxims about statistics is...
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The Quakers' Colonel: August 2006
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Col Dan Smith, USA (Ret.) Talks About Military Affairs. Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Africa Update - Another Major Headquarters? For those of you who don’t get Time magazine, the August 24 issue carried a story that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld planned on creating a tenth unified combatant command and the sixth geographic command. The geographical area of this new headquarters would be Africa. Ostensibly, the LRA has been assured that they will be able to leave the two camps in the event that the ...
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The Quakers' Colonel: April 2006
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Col Dan Smith, USA (Ret.) Talks About Military Affairs. Friday, April 28, 2006. Annual Terror Report Released. About half the recorded incidents killed no one. Iraq was the scene of approximately one-third of all incidents in 2005 and more than half of all deaths attributed to terrorism. Posted by Dan Smith at 1:21 PM. Links to this post. Darfur, Congress, and Transitions. Congressman Wolf has traveled to Sudan 5 times and observed first-hand the conditions against which tens of thousands must struggle o...
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The Quakers' Colonel: November 2006
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Col Dan Smith, USA (Ret.) Talks About Military Affairs. Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Iraq: Still "Staying the Course"? Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed. Frederick William Robertson, 19th Century English Preacher. Listening to the radio and watching television, one can only marvel at the accuracy of Preacher Robertson’s observation. Events this week associated with Iraq make the point. Where, one might wonder, is the three-letter word that encompasses all of the above? Well, the Dictiona...
