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Oliver North (May 18, 2012)
Forty-three years ago this week, the fabled 101st Airborne Division launched Operation Apache Snow -- a major ground offensive against North Vietnamese army invaders in... more
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Oliver North (May 11, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- Last week, this column described a deadly suicide attack by the Haqqani network on a secure compound outside Kabul, Afghanistan, and the failure of NATO... more
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Oliver North (May 04, 2012)
My old American Heritage Dictionary defines the word "theater," inter alia, as "a large geographic area in which military operations are coordinated."... more
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Oliver North (Apr 27, 2012)
GEORGETOWN, S.C. -- Sixty-seven years ago this week, U.S. and Allied forces were racing across Germany and uncovering the deepest horrors of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.... more
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Oliver North (Apr 20, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- My dear friend and fellow Marine Joe Foss -- a Medal of Honor recipient -- would ask me occasionally, "What were you thinking?" The question usually was... more
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Oliver North (Apr 13, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- Nine years ago this week, our Fox News team accompanied U.S. Marines as they swept into Baghdad and then north up the Tigris River to seize Saddam... more
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Oliver North (Apr 06, 2012)
Passover and Easter -- intrinsically linked in the Jewish and Christian traditions -- are being celebrated this weekend. For observant Jews, Passover... more
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Oliver North (Mar 30, 2012)
In the summer of 1987, just before my "television debut," a true friend instructed me in a congressional hearing, "Remember, the microphone is always on --... more
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Oliver North (Mar 23, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- Nine years ago this week, President George W. Bush ordered more than 250,000 troops in a U.S.-led coalition to cross the "berm" on the border of Kuwait and head... more
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Oliver North (Mar 16, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- Four years ago, when then-Sen. Barack Obama was campaigning for president, he said of Afghanistan: This is "a war that we have to win." He also... more
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Oliver North (Mar 09, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- One year ago this week, I wrote a column titled "Crude Cruelty," which covered a jump in the cost of motor fuel and a corresponding spike in prices for food and... more
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Oliver North (Mar 02, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- On Feb. 20, a NATO-Afghan security team at the Parwan Detention Center -- adjacent to the U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul -- began destroying... more
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Oliver North (Feb 24, 2012)
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- There are few success stories here in this tortured country on the eastern coast of Africa. For nearly two decades, this drought-ravaged land and the... more
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Oliver North (Feb 17, 2012)
Twenty-three years ago this week, Iran's self-appointed supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, broadcast a religious edict declaring that author Salman Rushdie... more
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Oliver North (Feb 10, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- "We don't need you, so shut up!" That's the message the Obama administration has sent loud and clear to America's Roman Catholics. And... more
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Oliver North (Feb 03, 2012)
Editor's note: Co-written by Oliver North and Tom Kilgannon.
Blacklist (n.): a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted.
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Oliver North (Jan 27, 2012)
It's an unwritten law of modern America that a political campaign speech should last no more than 30 minutes. The lecture candidate Barack Obama delivered on the... more
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Oliver North (Jan 20, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- On Dec. 31, just hours before a New Year's Eve celebration, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. Section... more
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Oliver North (Jan 13, 2012)
Our so-called mainstream media have launched a new anti-military feeding frenzy. The furor is over a crude 39-second video showing four Marines apparently urinating on the... more
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Oliver North (Jan 06, 2012)
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military had better get ready to do a whole lot more with a whole lot less. That's the bottom line of the so-called "new strategic guidance" issued... more