ANOTHER BIG STEP TO A MAJOR WAR
26 November 2015 Turn to page 214 in the book “War-making for Dummies.” You will find: “plan air operations right on your neighbor’s border, zig in and zag out, make rude gestures at enemy pilots, and...
View ArticleTHINK BEFORE YOU RUSH TO WAR
December 3, 2015 Concentration of forces is the most basic law of military science. Victory on the battlefield is won by amassing as many troops as possible at the key point of attack, or...
View ArticleANOTHER 50 YEARS OF MIDEAST STRIFE
31 December 2016 One of my favorite literary expressions is the term ‘Parthian shaft.’ It refers to the favored tactic of the Parthians, a Persian people, of turning while on horseback and firing...
View ArticleTRUMP BULL IN THE MIDEAST CHINA SHOP
January 28, 2017 President Donald Trump is getting ready to plunge into the burning Mideast with all the zeal and arrogance of a medieval crusader. The new administration’s knowledge of the region is a...
View ArticleANOTHER JOLLY LITTLE WAR
April 8, 2017 It seems that every new US president has to prove his machismo…or make his bones, as wiseguys say…by bombing the usual Arabs. By now, it’s almost a rite of passage. The American public...
View ArticleTRUMP: END THE SYRIA WAR NOW
July 22, 2017 Many Americans voted for Donald Trump because he vowed to end the foreign conflicts in which the US had become entangled. So far, they have been disappointed. But this week a light...
View ArticleOPERATION NOAH’S ARK: ESCAPE FROM SYRIA
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4782130/Traumatised-zoo-animals-rescued-Aleppo-zoo.html
View ArticleESCAPE FROM ALEPPO
August 19, 2017 AMMAN JORDAN – I haven’t seen many miracles in my decades of travel around the globe, particularly not in the strife-torn Mideast. But last week I participated in a real miracle in...
View ArticleNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ARTICLE RE: ANIMAL RESCUE FROM SYRIAN ZOO
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/wildlife-watch-rescuing-animals-aleppo-syria-zoo/
View ArticleRAQQA DESTROYED TO LIBERATE IT
October 21, 2017 The so-called Islamic State organization was primarily a bogeyman encouraged by the western powers. I’ve been saying this for the last four years. I asserted, as a former soldier and...
View ArticleTHE SYRIAN MADHOUSE GETS EVEN CRAZIER
February 2, 2018 Last summer, I was positioned just across the border from the Syrian town of Afrin around which Turkish and Kurdish and, possibly, American forces, are now poised for a head-on clash....
View ArticlePLAYING WITH NUCLEAR MATCHES
14 April 2018 Behind President Donald Trump’s bluster and threats over Syria, powerful forces are pushing the US towards war with Russia and Syria: the neocons and the military industrial complex. For...
View ArticleDOCTOR DEATH FROM DAMASCUS?
April 21, 2018 Butcher of Damascus. Gasser of children. Baby Killer of Syria. Tool of Moscow. Cruel despot. Monster. These are all names the western media and politicians routinely heap on...
View ArticleLink for Article in Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/04/21/wanted-the-butcher-of-damascus-to-return-normalcy-to-syria/#comments
View ArticleTIME TO GET OUT OF SYRIA
December 22, 2018 President Trump has done the right thing with regard to America’s troop deployment in Syria. Trump ordered the 2,000 US troops based in Syria to get out and come home. Neocons and the...
View ArticleTURKEY BEATS THE WAR DRUMS
October 12, 2019 More war in wretched Syria. Half the population is now refugees; entire cities lie shattered by bombing; bands of crazed gunmen run rampant; US, French, Israeli and Russian warplanes...
View ArticleTHE MOTHER OF MESSES IN SYRIA
October 19, 2019 What a mess. The imperial cooks in Washington have turned poor Syria into a poison pit of warring factions, with disastrous results for all. Henry Kissinger once quipped that it is...
View ArticleTWO DEEP MYSTERIES OF THE 1973 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR
October 17, 2020 Forty-seven years ago, Egypt and Syria launched a massive surprise attack on Israeli forces dug into fortifications along the Suez Canal and Golan Heights. The ‘limited’ Arab objective...
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