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Document Friday: A Soldier’s Handbook to Iraq–“FOUO [For Official Use Only]“
When the “Big Red One” —the US First Infantry Division—arrived in Iraq in 2003, its soldiers received this Soldier’s Handbook to Iraq. Its first page proclaimed, “Combined with your warrior ethos, a...
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FRINFORMSUM 9/22/2010
Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, Obama’s Wars, will shed light on covert US operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. As with his prior large-scale presidential chronicles, Woodward has been granted...
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Document Friday: Joint Chiefs of Staff “History” Brief of the Iraq War Gets...
A recently declassified Joint Chiefs of Staff Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) History Brief gets it dead wrong. According to the JCS, the United States military did not begin planning for the 2003...
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Document Friday: On Morning of 9/11 Rumsfeld Warned of Ballistic Missiles,...
On the morning of 11 September 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met with Republican lawmakers to make his case as to why they had to fully support President Bush’s Missile Defense Program in...
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Peter Kornbluh Examines the “Bizarre and Disreputable” Case of Terrorist and...
By Peter Kornbluh for The Nation. On January 10 one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history will go on trial in a small courtroom in El Paso, Texas. This is not the venue the Obama...
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Rumsfeld Confirms Archive Analysis
In his new book Known and Unknown, former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld provides yet more confirmation from the top level that President George W. Bush carried out a war against Iraq without ever...
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Presidents Day Weekend Document Friday.
Happy President’s Day weekend! Having spent years combing through all these guys’ documents, I kinda feel like I know em –in a weird way. It’s always pretty cool to see them all together. Would...
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Document Friday: Now THAT is How You Announce Air Strikes on Libya.
Newt Gingrich’s recent Shaquille-O’neal-size flip flop on why the US should/should not use military force against Libya (as well as ubiquitous calls in the opeds for further clarity and explanation...
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Easter Document Friday: Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law wishes you “happiness,...
You are probably doing something wrong if Saddam Hussein’s son-in-law, Hussain Kamil Hasan, head the Iraq Ministry of Industry and Military Production, sent you a telex “on the occasion of the Easter...
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The Importance of the Iran-Contra Scandal, 25 Years Later
It has been 25 years since President Ronald Reagan stepped up to the microphone in the White House press room and made the announcement that launched one of the greatest scandals in modern American...
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