Jules Crittenden is a Boston Herald editor and columnist who has reported on politics, crime, science, foreign affairs, and maritime and military matters in the United States, Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East.
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146 years ago today, the 54th Massachusetts led the assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. The all-black regiment and its white officers were decimated, the dead including Col. Robert Gould...
As the Royal Navy stops taking crap. Times of London on two boatloads of Royal Marines vs. a dhow full of Somali and Yemeni pirates:Â
Pirates caught redhanded by one of Her Majesty’s warships after trying to hijack a cargo ship off...
That’s the Guy enroute to his annual torching in Lewes, Sussex, traditional hotbed of anti-Catholicism that’s big on the Nov. 5 observance due to a matter of 17 local Prots having been burned there by Queen Mary. Brits have burned the...
It ain’t bleeding (much), it ain’t leading … much. No shortage of irony as Baghdad blast walls tumble like Wall Street stock portfolios … only in orderly fashion, due to a sense of security, not panic.
The missing Japanese mini-sub mystery may have been cracked. LA Times Pearl Harbor article lays out the circumstantial case for a sub that got into the harbor, scored hits on USS West Virginia and USS Oklahoma, sank, and was inadvertantly dumped...
Everyone gets a win as the Washington Post explains how Obama didn’t actually change McChrystal’s plan when he short-sheeted it by 25 percent, cut the growth rate of Afghan troops, and insisted on an 18-month window. What he did was ”focus our...
Anti-tabloid privacy invasion activist Tiger Woods, alleged to have been untrue to his values and the behavior his family deserves with a porn star, in an apparent test of the full extent of the dismaying effects of tabloid scrutiny.
Holly...
It’s no “300″ scenario … the Spartans bought time to let the Greeks fight decisively another day, after all, not to withdraw from that endless, tiresome, anguish-inducing, politician-bothering Greco-Persian conflict. And these 30,000 don’t face...
I had one at the local supermarket today, while knocking out a quick shop. It was a free sample-palooza, and I went from one table to another. Gourmet ham, cheese spread on water crackers, white cheddar with cranberries, fresh bread with lobster...
