Topic: William S. Lind

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- One way to look at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is to see them as one war with two fronts.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Germany's politicians have demanded the modern German army, the Bundeswehr, be stripped of all German military traditions, not just those of the Nazi period, but this will only guarantee the army's failure in any time of battle and crisis.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- All of Martin van Creveld's books are worth reading, but a few are "big books," books so important that anyone interested in war must read them.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- A few weeks ago I wrote a column explaining why John McCain is wrong on Iraq. In contrast, Barack Obama is largely right on Iraq. Whether he would follow through on his plan for withdrawing U.S. troops is another question. The Democratic Party's foreign policy establishment is no less Wilsonian than its Republican counterpart, and once it has used anti-war voters to gain power, it will want to show them the door as soon as it dares.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- I recently returned from Estonia and the Baltic Defense College, where the Russian counterattack on the former Soviet republic of Georgia in the Caucasus had left a residual case of nerves.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Despite the recent drop in the price of oil, the world economy is still sailing into troubled waters. The U.S. credit crisis is intensifying and spreading to Britain. Europe is moving toward recession. The international financial system continues to depend on mountains of debt. If the financial panic that the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank thus far has managed to stave off materializes, we could witness a meltdown of historic proportions.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Moqtada Sadr, the leader of the Mehdi Army Shiite militia in Iraq, has promised that small, well-trained elements of the Mehdi Army will continue to attack the Americans, but so far he has held off launching such attacks. That too is wise.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- As the neoconservatives in and around the Bush administration celebrate their imagined "victory" in Iraq that has yet to be won, they also proclaim the downfall of Moqtada Sadr, leader of the Mehdi Army militia and staunch opponent of the American occupation.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The dilemmas generated by U.S. President George W. Bush's contradictory and confused policies in Iraq have been moving from tragedy to farce.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A recent news story added important evidence to issues raised in recent "Military Matters" columns. It concerns a fourth-generation war taking place on America's doorstep between the Mexican state and drug gangs.