Army, served military tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and taught the nation’s checkered, often inspiring past when he was an assistant professor of history at West Point. His war experiences, his scholarship, his skill as a writer and his patriotism illuminate these Truthdig posts. . ..…

Israeli bulldozers demolished agricultural shed and room under construction belonging to Palestinian Qafin, north of Tulkarem, West Bank.. Nezar Ajoli, the owner, said that number of Israeli military jeeps, accompanied by bulldozer, surrounded his land, located to the west of..…