Reading Assignment

Steven Metz has written a lengthy piece on the effectiveness of counterinsurgencies and insurgencies themselves. If you have the time, skim it.

Jonah Goldberg makes a bold statement that we shouldn't have public schools at all. Evidence shows that even though less money is spent per student in private schools, they always achieve better results. Watch out for the bottles flying from the teachers' unions, Jonah.

The New York Post displays another military victim of Democrats' politicking: General Peter Pace.

Competition or Monopoly? That's a question Walter Williams is asking when it comes to school choice. "What's wrong with parents having the right, along with the means, to enroll their children in schools of their choice?" Good question.