Issues Confronting the U.S. Military

Read Michael Fumento's Iraq blog entries and view his Fall 2006 photos, Spring 2006 photos and Spring 2005 photos detailing his activities in Iraq.

• Not Fit for Combat (Forbes Online, November 18, 2009)
• Veterans' Ghosts (Forbes Online, November 11, 2009)
• No Medals for Hiring Vets (Philadelphia Inquirer, November 10, 2009)
• Not Quite Real (The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 2009)
• Raptor Program Must Keep Flying (Defense News, February 23, 2009 )
• "Remembering" When al Anbar was "Lost" (Human Events, September 10, 2008)
• A Debt that Can Never Be Repaid: Michael Monsoor is Awarded the Medal of Honor (The Weekly Standard, April 21, 2008)
• Memories of a Hero: Posthumous Recipient of Nation's Highest Honor (The New York Post, April 9, 2008)
• The Casualties of War – The Lancet Study of Iraq Deaths is Further Discredited (The Weekly Standard, February 4, 2008)
• The Homeless 'Vets' Who Aren't (The New York Post, December 18, 2007)
• CBS' Bogus Vet-Suicide Stats (The New York Post, November 19, 2007)
• Hollywood's War on the War on Terror (New York Sun, October 25, 2007)
• Lancet's Boil (The American Spectator Online, August 21, 2007)
• Tough Americans (The Weekly Standard, July 30, 2007)
• Talking with the Taliban? (TCS Daily, June 18, 2007)
• The Other War: Afghanistan is Winnable, but Victory Can't be Taken for Granted (The Weekly Standard, June 11, 2007)
• Begging to Get Suckered Again: The Taliban Will Only Promise Peace (The New York Post, May 16, 2007)
• Survey of Afghans Says Time Running Out (TCS Daily , March 12, 2007)
• The Fighting Killions (TCS Daily , March 8, 2007)
• Why I'm Not Embedded in Iraq: The Army isn't Helping Win the War at Home (The Daily Standard, March 3, 2007)
• The Democrats' Special Forces Fetish (The Weekly Standard, March 5, 2007)
• In Memoriam: Farewell to Maj. Megan McClung, USMC (The American Spectator, December 27, 2006)
• COPs and Criminals in Ramadi (The American Spectator, December 4, 2006)
• Embedded Reporter Upbeat About Iraq (Human Events Online, November 30, 2006)
• Return to Ramadi (The Weekly Standard, November 27, 2006)
• Military Unfairly Blamed for Embed Problem (The American Spectator, November 13, 2006)
• Covering Iraq: The Modern Way of War Correspondence (National Review, November 7, 2006)
• The War Tapes: The Real Iraq Finally Comes to the Screen (The Daily Standard, July 21, 2006)
• G.I. Phone Home (Or at Least Email) (Michael Yon's Frontline Forum, July 6, 2006)
• Killing al-Zarqawi: Views from Iraq (TCS Daily, June 13, 2006)
• The New Band of Brothers (The Weekly Standard, June 19, 2006)
• Bridge to Nowhere, Meet Research to Nowhere (TCS Daily, May 26, 2006)
• The Band of Brothers (and their Mothers) (The American Spectator, May 11, 2006)
• Back to Fallujah (The Weekly Standard, May 8, 2006)
• A Different Sort of War Hero (The New York Post, January 18, 2006)
• It Ain't That Easy, Folks (Tech Central Station, December 7, 2005)
• White Phosphorus Charges Are Burning Lies (National Review Online, November 29, 2005)
• "The Right Place at the Right Time" – A Navy Lieutenant on Serving in Iraq (National Review Online, November 3, 2005)
• The Bomb-blowing Heroes of Iraq (Scripps Howard News Service, September 1, 2005)
• Despite Media Blackout, Fallujah Rebuilds (Scripps Howard News Service, August 25, 2005)
• Best Way to See Iraq War is at the Front Lines (Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, August 20, 2005)
• Bochco's Botched and Biased "Over There" (Scripps Howard News Service, August 11, 2005)
• Mainstream Media Suppress Iraq Optimism (Scripps Howard News Service, July 28, 2005)
• Ours to Lose: Up Close and Personal in Iraq (National Review Online, June 13, 2005)
• Fallujah Rises from the Ashes (National Review Online, June 1, 2005)
• Robotic Death from Above (Tech Central Station, March 31, 2005)
• Is Anything Mightier Than This Sword? (Tech Central Station, January 6, 2005)
• Unhealthy Hype: The Myth of Gulf War Syndrome Lives On (National Review Online, December 22, 2004)
• Iraqi Deaths Report Is Merely Poor Propaganda (Scripps Howard News Service, November 4, 2004)
• Lancet Civilian Death Report Kills the Truth ( Tech Central Station, November 1, 2004 )
• The Mental Demons of War (Scripps Howard News Service, July 8, 2004)
• Holes and All, Bioshield Needed (Scripps Howard News Service, April 29, 2004)
• USA Today's Reporting Scandals (American Outlook, Winter 2004)
• Daily News's Depleted (Uranium) Integrity (Scripps Howard News Service, April 15, 2004)
• Victims Are Our New Heroes (Scripps Howard News Service, April 1, 2004)
• Opt-out Military (National Review Online, December 29, 2003)
• "Saddam We Love You!" — What Germans are Being Told about the Iraq Conflict (National Review Online, October 6, 2003)
• Ralph Nader's Antiwar Fuelishness (National Review Online, February 14 2003)
• The Silliness of Suing Saddam (National Review Online, April 17, 2002)
• No Straight Shooters — The Washington Post's Questionable Afghanistan Reporting (National Review Online, February 22, 2002)
• Gulf War Syndrome, Round 38 (Reason Online, December 24, 2001)
• Finishing off the Taliban (The Washington Times, November 29, 2001)
• Bayer's Headache: U.S. Government Uses Heavy Hand For Cheap Cipro (Investor's Business Daily, October 31, 2001)
• A Dose of Anthrax Reality Behind the Hysteria (National Review Online, October 22, 2001)
• Anthrax Anxiety — The Truth Behind the Hype (National Review Online, October 15, 2001)
• The Fear Factor: Real Danger Lies is Overreaction to 'Bioterrorism' (Investor's Business Daily, October 15, 2001)
• The "Warrior" Terrorists (FrontPageMagazine.com, October 10, 2001)
• Surprise Attack on the Navy (Washington Times, June 22, 2001)
• The Guns of Vieques — A Very Silly, but Very Trendy, Cause (National Review, June 25, 2001)
• Vietnam Flashback — Does Agent Orange Cause Diabetes? (Reason, July 2000)
• Anthrax Angst Syndrome (American Outlook, Winter 2000)
• If Only There Were A Vaccine for Hysteria (Wall Steet Journal, December 15, 1999) (With responses and additional article)
• Helicopter Safety Blind Side (The Washington Times, October 27, 1999)
• Pentagon Learns Appeasement Lesson with Gulf War Syndrome (1998)
• Bill Clinton Again Betrays the Vets (1998)
• Shape Up for Tomorrow's Combat (1997)
• Gulf War Syndrome: Son of Agent Orange (1996)
• Iraqgate: Once Bush's Ghost, Now the Media's (1996)
• Vietnam Veterans Are Doing Fine for the Most Part — Contrary to Myth (The Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, November 27, 1996)
• The Center for Defense Misinformation (The American Spectator, April 1988)

Read Michael Fumento's additional work on Gulf War Syndrome and on Agent Orange and dioxin.

Michael Fumento's book, Science Under Siege, has a chapter covering Agent Orange.