I loves me some Bernard Finel, but Dr Smarty Pants from National War College is wrong about one thing. Today in LoD, the media, Congress and celebrity generals.

LoD on the soapbox. Damned Congress. Defense hawks, yardbirds and other fowl language.

Russel Honoré is a bumptious, blithering buffoon who somehow served decades in uniform and yet can’t remember his oath of commission. Other than that, he’s great.

Gentle readers, the time has come for an intervention. Mike Yon might have finally gone bonkers. My thoughts on the Hundred Years War of Yonotopia.

Generals, the time has come for you to honestly share with your troops the metrics culled from the war in Afghanistan. What is your strategy? How long will it take? Where are we now? What are the costs?

Congress and I don’t trust the Army’s Warrior Transition Unit survey system. Should you? Some thoughts to consider.

Remember the “Kinetic Military Action” we’re waging in Libya? The bill comes due in Congress, courtesy of the War Powers Act. Will our elected leaders do anything about it? Or will they just let the White House keep fibbing?

Two Congressmen, the Pentagon and Big Army come together to do the right thing for our wounded veterans. Let us praise them.

What would George Marshall do? Probably nothing that ex-LTG Ricardo Sanchez has for the past decade.

The military has a long history of arguing change is going to be really hard, only to discover after it has to change, well, it’s just not that hard. Should Congress muster up the gumption to end discrimination against gays, the ban will end with a whimper, not a bang.