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, ...

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 ...

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 cannot, can you?

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 ...

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 ...