In Canada we cashier our best military officers for sexual transgressions. The Americans should be so lucky. Down there, deadly derelictions of duty and the greatest loss of military equipment in history generate slaps on the back – as long as the commanders in question act woke. In Jewish World Review, Victor Davis Hanson describes the dizzying tailspin of the world’s greatest military.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


