IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 608-10 July 13, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Antonik, 29, of Crystal Lake, Ill., died July 11 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 1st Marine [...]

Stephen Kinzer just returned from a trip to Iran and reports: The first thing that strikes Americans who visit Iran is how amazingly pro-American its people are. Nowhere else in the Middle East, nowhere else in the Muslim world, and almost nowhere else on earth do people so unreservedly admire the United States. Opinion surveys [...]

Before the persona of Ricky Ross, George Steinbrenner was the biggest boss that you’ve seen thus far. I don’t have it in me to do a thorough accounting of his Gaius Baltar-like triumphs and mistakes. So let’s just say, respectfully and appropriately: Rest In Peace.

Marcy did the heavy lifting yesterday of transcribing a letter that Omar Khadr wrote to Col. Patrick Parrish, the judge presiding over his military commission. After yet again firing his lawyers, Khadr appeared resigned. “[N]ot one of the lawyers I’ve had, or human right organization or any person say that the commission is fair, or [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 603-10 July 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Donald R. Edgerton, 33, of Murphy, N.C., died July 10 near Char Dara, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive [...]

MMEDIATE RELEASE No. 601-10 July 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Robert W. Crow, 42, of Kansas City, Mo., died July 10 in Paktika, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 602-10 July 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Joseph W. Dimock II, 21, of Wildwood, Ill, died July 10 in Salerno, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident when an explosion occurred [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 604-10 July 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. Jesse W. Ainsworth, 24, of Dayton, Texas, died July 10 near Walakan, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive [...]

So: today. The Globe & Mail‘s Paul Koring is a great, wise, judicious and thorough reporter whom I was lucky to meet/drink with/learn from in April and May while covering Omar Khadr’s military commission at Guantanamo Bay. Then he became one of the four reporters banned for reporting Joshua Claus’s identity. He told me for [...]

This post from Matthew Yglesias about something I wrote for Danger Room today concerning prospective robot-driven military convoys provides an opportunity for clarification. Yglz: Automation technology is promising for military purposes primarily because it’s promising overall. But while Japanese robots clear snow and bolster the spirits of senior citizens, we’re working on warbots to facilitate missions we [...]