Posted on 09/27/2009 6:19:41 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
Join Honest Conservative tonight, Sunday, Sep 27, 2009, 8 PM EDT, on Freedom Radio as she discusses Afghanistan with her guests Bill Roggio and MG Paul Vallely.
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Bill Roggio is the Managing Editor of The Long War Journal. He is also the president of Public Multimedia Inc., a nonprofit media organization with a mission to provide original and accurate reporting and analysis of the Long War, an Adjunct Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Hoover Institute Media Fellow, and contributor to the The Weekly Standard. His coverage includes the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Lebanon, and Iraq, as well as al Qaeda's operations, tactics, and strategy.
Bill has embedded with the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Army, the Georgian Army, the Iraqi Army, and the Iraqi police in Iraq in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, as well as with the Canadian Army in Afghanistan in 2006. He also presents regularly at the US Air Force's Contemporary Counterinsurgency Warfare School on the media and embedded reporting. From 1991 to 1997, Bill served as a signalman and infantryman in the US Army and the New Jersey National Guard.
MG Paul E. Vallely (US Army, Ret.) Chairman, Stand Up America, US Project
Paul E. Vallely, Major General, US Army (ret) was born in DuBois, Pa. He retired in 1992 from the US Army as Deputy Commanding General, US Army, Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. General Vallely graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned in the Army in 1961 serving a distinguishing career of 32 years in the Army. He served in many overseas theaters to include Europe and the Pacific Rim Countries as well as two combat tours in Vietnam. He has served on US security assistance missions on civilian-military relations to Europe, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Central America with in-country experience in Indonesia, Columbia, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala.
General Vallely is a graduate of the Infantry School, Ranger and Airborne Schools, Jumpmaster School, the Command and General Staff School, The Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Army War College. His combat service in Vietnam included positions as infantry company commander, intelligence officer, operations officer, military advisor and aide-de-camp. He has over fifteen (15) years experience in Special Operations, Psychological and Civil-Military Operations.
He has served as a consultant to the Commanding General of the Special Operations Command as well as the DOD Anti-Drug and Counter-Terrorist Task Forces. He also designed and developed the Host-Nation Support Program in the Pacific for DOD and the State Department. He has in-country security assistance – experience in Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, El Salvador, Columbia and Indonesia in the development of civil-military relations interfacing with senior level military and civilian leadership.
General Vallely has been a military analyst on television and radio for over six years. He is also a guest lecturer on National Security matters and the Global War against Radical Islam. He co-authored the books “ Endgame – Blueprint for Victory for Winning the War on Terror”, “Baghdad Ablaze”, and “Warfooting”. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Iran Policy Committee. Currently, he is the Chairman of the “Stand Up America Project”.
He and his wife, Marian, are the co-trustees of the Scott Vallely Soldier’s Memorial Fund and reside in Montana.
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Thanks for the ping! Will be tuning in tonight, for sure!
Great show! Listening now to Freeper Lisa Mei Norton and her darling son, Joshua! What great music they gave us at our Freeper Convention in DC! :)
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