Topic: William S. Lind

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.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain, the Republican standard-bearer in the U.S. presidential election contest, has claimed the "surge" policy is working and consequently the United States is winning the war in Iraq.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain's position on the situation in Iraq is wrong on two counts, which means his criticism of Sen. Barack Obama is also wrong.

WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- The strategic crisis looming ahead for the United States will be compounded by the fact that the money is about to run out. The American people seem to have forgotten that no activity the state can undertake is more expensive than war. If a tanking economy cuts off the money flow, what comes next?

WASHINGTON, July 24 (UPI) -- In war, as in life, the secret to success is having a wide range of options. That was the basis of German Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder's approach to operational art, as opposed to the school of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen with its myopic focus on one option. The list of commanders and nations whose single option failed is a long one.