Chemical weapons have been used for millennia. They are among mankind’s most despicable weapons, and have never caused anything but heartbreak and devastation. In a bizarre twist of history, invading Iranians used clouds of sodium chloride gas in AD 256 to kill Roman soldiers in the ancient city of Dura-Europos in Syria. During the American […]
Syria: A Very Bad Bet
Weeks after the fact, I remain outraged that President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry so strongly advocated a US-led attack against targets in Syria. Someone in Syria, in all likelihood Assad, killed and maimed thousands of people with horrific chemical weapons. The is unforgivable. And yet—I am not willing to support an action that […]
Insanity = US Arming Syrian Rebels
Putting on my legal cap today (I am a licensed attorney in the Federal District of Columbia and Florida). Providing arms to terrorist groups is against US law section 40, 40(a) and 40(d) of the United States Arms Export Control Act. Last Sunday, President Obama issued an Executive Order to circumvent that law so that […]
Special Operations Then and Now
In my latest novel, TIME FALL, Lt. Art Sutton and his six-man “Fox” team are members of the US 2nd Ranger Battalion. Sutton was a survivor of the assault on Pointe du Hoc during the Normandy invasion on D-Day, June 6, 1944. I based “Fox” team on the real life “Alamo Scouts,” who were small teams […]
MIA Forensics Lab Opens–Bravo!
“OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE — A forensics lab has opened at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha with a special mission: identify the remains of missing soldiers, sailors and airmen from past wars. The lab has been constructed inside a section of the massive former Martin bomber plant on the base, which is where the […]
