Focuses on what American military personnel are doing around the world on various humanitarian and anti-terrorist missions.
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts sounds like an oddly structured, yet awesome, tome, and a fun follow-up to the (apparently more orthodox) Imperial Grunts.
Here Kaplan is, discussing the latest book with Hugh Hewitt. It’s a long transcript, so you’ll want to pour a fresh cup of coffee before you tackle it . . . or maybe just skim it when you get there.
Two Kaplan books I must read! People should just stop writing for two years, until I catch up.
Via Wordsmith at Flopping Aces, where much hilarity ensued when it came time to quote poor old Ted Turner, on American power—soft and hard:
I think if we stopped bombing people and sent doctors and scientists and engineers around the world that we’d make a lot more progress, and we wouldn’t have near as much terrorism in the world as we do. I think bombing just makes people angry, and they want to bomb you back.
Yes, Theodore; I am convinced that is all we do. Bomb people.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a picture to post, of an Afghan woman:
My heart beats true . . .
She just got bombed, Theodore; she looks very unhappy.
(Hat tip to Flopping Aces also for the pic, which I could not resist stealing.)
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