J.B. Spins

Civilians often (rather insensitively) request war stories from veterans, but those who lived to tell them can be hesitant to do so, because...

This rescue mission should not have been necessary. Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was strategically questionable, but the execution wa...

Rather remarkably, the staff of Afghan Films already saved their film archive from the Taliban once. Sadly, they will probably have to do it...

On Independence Day, we should give thanks for the men and women serving in the American military. With the hostile regimes in Mainland Chin...

Yasmina Khadra ran for the presidency of his native Algeria (not so impressively), but his most celebrated novel (written in French) t...

Girls passing for boys was a staple of Shakespeare’s comedies, but the stakes were never so precariously high as they are for young Parva...

It’s based on a stage play, but it has a bunch of explosions. When adapting his play Nanawatai for the big screen, William Mastrosimon...

In the earliest days of Operation Enduring Freedom, Special Forces Team 595 became the first military unit to engage the enemy on horseba...

We expect a lot of our regular army. Lately, we have asked even more of our National Guardsmen. Only provided thirty-nine days of trainin...

The media loves to compare the current War in Afghanistan with the 1979 Soviet Invasion. It’s practically a miracle their memories go bac...

Where could a mountaineering Polish dissident go to most effectively fight Communism in the 1980s? Obviously Afghanistan. Of course, gett...

The 2014 Presidential election represented a major security challenge for the Coalition forces and the Kabul City Police Center (KCPC). A...

He was known as QZR—was known. Now the Taliban militant is simply the late Qari Ziaur Rahman. The civilized world can thank the troops of...

Stationed in a remote outpost in the Korengal Valley dubbed Camp Restrepo (in honor of a late, beloved medic), the men of the Airborne Br...

TOLO TV is like the Al Jazeera of Afghanistan, except it is critical of terrorism.  Founded by Saad Mohseni, his brothers Zaid and Jahid,...

Elsa Cassanova opposed the invasion of Afghanistan and wears keffiyehs.  She thought she would fit right in, but she is shocked to disco...

His playground was the rubble left from horrific intolerance. Eight year-old (approximately) Mir’s family were forced from their home villag...

Witness Islamic Sharia Law in practice. It is impossible to consider it anything less than institutionalized misogyny after observing the pr...

Just because they are Danish soldiers, does not mean they should trust the media anymore than their American counterparts. A group of Danes ...