Surely there are worse PR gigs than flacking for the Libyan government, but I can’t think of many. It’s not that there’s never good news emanating from the province of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, who’s ...

THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI, familiar in song and story to every American schoolboy, are an ever-present reality to the thousands of U.S. airmen stationed at Wheelus Field Being on the scene, as it were, ...

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To the shores of Tripoli, We fight our country’s battles On the land as on the sea. Beyond the International Date Line, where it is always tomorrow, Wake lifts itself in three desolate sandy specks in ...

It seems prophetic that America’s first foray into the Middle East involved a bribe, and ended, ignominiously, in failure. Seeking to rescue Americans taken hostage by Barbary pirates, John Lamb, a ...

Name a single Arab or Islamic state, which, after a revolution that has overthrown a dictator, came to embrace political pluralism, religious tolerance and equal rights for women. You can’t, can you?

On The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power, by Max Boot. In the post-Civil War era, the Marine Corps, which had existed in various forms since 1775, gained a motto, a march ...

Libya, once the fly in good ol’ Ronny Raygun’s ointment, is at it again. This time around, though, the people of Libya are trying to get rid of Muammar Gaddafi rather than a covert airstrike on a ...

Sen. Corker wants hearings on the constitutionality of the U.S.'s involvement in Libya: Specifically, Corker asked Kerry "to hold a series of hearings to examine the division of war powers as outlined ...

Obama could have chosen to stay out of Libya entirely, but even those commentators who are (with good reason) wringing their hands over American involvement generally concede that a clearer-cut case ...

From time to time on Memorial Day, our church choir is accompanied by the orchestra and sings the Military Medley, consisting of the official songs of the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force and ...