Mike Few retires from the Army. A guest post about Iraq, control, grief and the freedom of a future.

CNAS and the LA Times fail to give you a list of the best war films ever created. My list probably will bug you. But it’s my list. Dracula, Frankenstein, King Kong and the rest visit LoD today. Boo!

Ryan Evans sticks his jim-willy in the mousetrap. Snap! Line of Departure provides a COIN primer to the COIN gurus. Ouch!

LoD goes on the road through Kurdistan and northern Iraq. Some initial thoughts on an Iraq without American troops.

My final thoughts about David H. Ucko’s retorts. Anything to avoid more kebab and Fanta!

I like David Ucko’s scholarship. But I dislike this essay. He’s too quick to dismiss important research into the Iraq “Surge.” His latest Prism piece in today’s LoD.

LoD reviews an important new bit of fiction by former Marine Phil Klay. Read his short story! It’s very good.

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.

Uber-brainy defense intellectual Bernard Finel arrives at LoD to dish on the Pentagon, former SecDef Bob Gates and the F-22 program. How do we develop a strategic culture at DoD?

U.S. Army Maj. Mike Few returns to LoD with a book review. Let’s start thinking of the Civil Rights movement in America as an insurgency. And don’t forget that it always carried the threat of violence.