IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 726-10 August 13, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Cpl. Kristopher D. Greer, 25, of Ashland City, Tenn., died Aug. 8 of wounds received Aug. 6 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 722-10 August 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Christopher N. Karch, 23, of Indianapolis, Ind., died Aug. 11 in Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire. [...]

(It’s breaking my heart that no one’s uploaded Ted Leo’s “Version: To Decline” to YouTube so I can embed it for this post. Ted’s first solo record is criminally slept-on and/or disliked, which is crazy. Don’t make the mistakes your peers make. Anyway.) In the latest (and not-yet-online) CTC Sentinel, Philip Mudd, formerly a counterterrorism [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 720-10 August 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Jose L. Saenz III, 30, of Pleasanton, Texas, died Aug. 9 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 11th [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 717-10 August 11, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Pfc. John E. Andrade, 19, of San Antonio, Texas, died Aug. 7 at DE Khak Chupan Turah, Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit [...]

Via Conor Friedersdorf, Dan Drezner surveys the formative foreign-policy consciousness of the millennials — peace and prosperity giving way to a decade of war and economic woe, basically — and wonders: From these experiences, I would have to conclude that this generation should be anti-interventionist to the point of isolationism. Then again, I’m looking at this [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 710-10 August 09, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Pfc. Paul O. Cuzzupe, 23, of Plant City, Fla., died Aug. 8 in Akhtar-Mohammad-Khan, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive [...]

Marc Lynch argues that it’s not the extremist forums that matter in terms of Park51 fallout: That’s the opposite of the Arab mainstream, which is vigorously arguing about what it means for the future of America’s relationship with Muslims — both in America and in the world.  Where the anti-mosque movement and escalating anti-Islam rhetoric [...]

You’ll forgive me if I don’t tie this to anything specific, right? I’ve had it on my mind since the flight home from Afghanistan and just want to put it out there. You hear quite a lot in military circles that the American public has an aversion to long conflicts. Most often, people state that [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 707-10 August 09, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Faith R. Hinkley, 23, of Colorado Springs, Colo., died Aug. 7 in Baghdad, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked her unit in Iskandariya, Iraq. She was [...]