An overblown bit of disruptive thinking on Small Wars Journal prepares the way for a bit of hagiography for a bureaucratic Pentagon warrior. Both fail to make a persuasive case for reform.

Paul of Tarsus and the Tiger of Malaya reconsidered in this update from last year. Happy Easter, my friends. And a good Pesach yesterday for others still.

Line of Departure makes the case for never boarding an airliner first. Time for some civil disobedience. Do the right thing and take your turn to fly with the rest of America.

The Army continues to insist that certain helicopters in Afghanistan must wear Red Crosses to abide by Geneva Conventions. This is untrue. There is no requirement to wear Red Crosses in combat. At cost of troops’ lives, the Army uses these Red Crosses as a tool in bureaucratic infighting about which generals control which helicopters.

Carl has been at LoD for a year. What you liked, what he liked, after 12 months in the salt mines.

The U.S. Army’s Jesse Thorsen gets his hand slapped for mixing the military in with partisan politics. What he can teach the Marines about ethics, customs and professionalism.

Why does Line of Departure keeping getting dragged into pointlessly stupid milblogger feuds? I waste a morning dealing again with Yon, Grisham and all that @#$%.

There is strong reason to believe that messages from this account are coming from from Zabihullah Mujahid, or someone deep within the “Big T” Taliban. (Upper leadership.)

Michael Yon: PTSD is a serious problem. Suicides by veterans happen many times per day, every day. At best, PTSD can degrade the quality of life of veterans and their families. At worst, unmanaged, the human toll is incalculable.

The PAOs and newspapers got it wrong. Let’s try to get two deaths in a bloody corner of Anbar, Iraq right six years later.