Never Much For Butter, Broke Iraq May Not Be Able To Buy Many Guns, Either

The perils of basing your budget on oil revenue: the Iraqi government is practically hemorrhaging money thanks to falling oil prices, and that’s causing a drastic reduction in defense-related jobs and purchases, according to The Washington Post’s Ernesto Londono. The U.S. general in charge of mentoring Iraqi security forces More…

Through An Afghan Truck Driver’s Eyes

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -– Demonstrating the unconventional approach taken by the Human Terrain Team, the team recently interviewed 25 drivers of so-called Jingle Trucks, the Afghan convoys that carry critical supplies to U.S. and Afghan security-force bases.

The drivers, who spend as much time on Afghanistan’s dangerous More…