W. Thomas Smith Jr. is the author of six books, and his articles have appeared in USA TODAY, George, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, National Review Online (NRO), CBS News, and The Washington Times. A former U.S. Marine infantry leader, parachutist, and shipboard counterterrorism instructor, Smith writes about military/defense issues and has covered conflict in the Balkans, on the West Bank, in Iraq and Lebanon. He has served on the adjunct faculty at the University of South Carolina's School of Journalism, and he is a military technical consultant for The New Technology of War, a documentary film series produced by Popular Mechanics magazine. Smith is director of the Counterterrorism Research Center of the Family Security Foundation, a contributing editor with NavySEALs.com, and a former executive editor of World Defense Review. He is one of the founding writers for NRO's The Tank. Visit W. Thomas Smith Jr. online at uswriter.com http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Speaking to some 500-plus Marines and their families on Saturday evening in Columbia, S.C., retired Marine Col. Myron C. Harrington explained in simple terms why on Apr. 22, 2008, two young Marines - Cpl. Jonathan... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2009/11/11/americas_defense_rests_in_her_legacy 66ad7d10-c0f9-4017-8853-fa842f253ab0 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Whoever believes, "All men are created equal," never stood face-to-face with Michael E. Thornton. Of course, I'm being facetious: All men are indeed created equal in the eyes of God and the law. But I do stand by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2009/09/07/all_men_are_not_equal e42ef37b-7ca5-44e2-bcca-b8df241374ab Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:13:31 GMT The violent crackdown continues in the wake of Iran's disputed June 12 presidential elections in which - according to the Wall Street Journal - "hard-line clerics have rallied behind Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2009/06/29/violence_in_iran_what_the_west_needs_to_know 303a81cc-5bfe-4ec7-a182-c3af0d8ae70b Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:37:47 GMT The Gadsden Flag - perhaps the most-famous of America's pre-Independence banners (a revised, striped version of which presently flies on all U.S. Navy warships) - may soon be branded a symbol of "extremism." In fact,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2009/05/14/the_snake_in_the_flag 2e124905-c355-4880-a734-e1f6d82c5c83 Thu, 14 May 2009 19:11:30 GMT During a recent commercial flight from Jacksonville (Fla.) to Baltimore, a flight attendant offered free drink coupons to any of the 150 passengers who could name just one of the five Medal of Honor recipients from the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2009/03/23/america's_ignorance_of_her_heroes 0e3c04b0-5ae9-4efe-b359-f9c3ed8b8c75 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:00:41 GMT Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman - the man responsible for laying much of my family's homeland to waste in the final year of the American Civil War - once said, "War is all hell." He was right: There is no way... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2009/01/02/israel_must_fight_and_win 4317ba2d-d8f6-4bd0-ac5a-760ba1db57d3 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:06:27 GMT COL. JOHN W. RIPLEY, U.S. MARINE CORPS (ret.), recipient of the Navy Cross and for years one of my personal heroes, has passed away. Ripley, 69, was awarded the Navy Cross - the nation's second-highest award for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/11/03/"hold_and_die"_-_legendary_marine_passes_on bf2da372-e17c-4fc1-a39d-9ecad61d91ba Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:00:41 GMT Thirty-six years ago this month I was a 13-year-old junior high school student: playing a little soccer, chasing a few girls, listening to Black Sabbath albums, and pestering my parents to buy me a motorcycle (which Mom... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/10/13/a_gift_from_a_navy_seal 7d470c11-7571-446d-9329-c156ede258cd Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:44 GMT Hezbollah has "brazenly attacked the Lebanese Army" - in its Thursday shooting-attack on an army helicopter, killing 1st Lt. Samer Hanna and wounding several others - so say the leaders of Lebanon's pro-democracy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/08/28/hezbollah_kills_lebanese_army_officer 054baa6b-8d99-48a5-9936-91dce258e3f4 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:00:40 GMT Years ago, my then-girlfriend urged me to read John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. So I did. It was an interesting read. But it was really nothing I and any other red-blooded American male didn't... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/07/25/kathleen_parkers_quest_to_save_the_males 25d1cecc-6f07-4f68-9f62-2d3989a04a8b Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:48:49 GMT In their new book, FLEECED, political pundit Dick Morris and attorney-coauthor Eileen McGann (yes, Morris and McGann are married), expose companies - both foreign and domestic - U.S. media powerhouses, an ineffective... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/06/26/dick_morris_on_the_fleecing_of_america b1c966b2-95aa-484a-a594-43a09c03e732 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:56:18 GMT Hezbollah - the Lebanon-based terrorist organization - has scored another victory: This one, political. It's barely been a week since Hezbollah's campaign of terror against the Lebanese people ended with a victory for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/05/21/hezbollah_scores_political_win,_but_resistance_groups_forming cf07d8d2-2fef-4bfb-a0e2-cce236709ce9 Wed, 21 May 2008 14:29:48 GMT Hezbollah - Iran's Lebanon-based terrorist legion - may have bitten off more than it can chew in its recent attacks against pro-government forces in Lebanon. They've certainly underestimated the tenacity of the latter... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/05/13/bloodying_irans_foreign_legion a8ccee00-8e6e-4982-8c09-2665a95997f3 Tue, 13 May 2008 15:48:36 GMT [Saturday marked one of the most important anniversaries in our nation's history. Following is what I had to say about it three years ago at World Defense Review, and it is just as relevant today.] April is a month... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/04/20/"disperse_ye_rebels,_ye_villains,_disperse!" 80faffd4-bdf2-435f-ab34-106bfc26279c Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:09:25 GMT In the summer of 1968, 31-year-old U.S. Navy Lt. Commander John S. McCain III - a prisoner of war in a North Vietnamese POW camp - was offered by his captors a chance to go home. McCain's father, Adm. John S. McCain... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2008/04/06/why_the_msm_is_dumbfounded_by_mccain's_refusal_to_go_home d17a6240-b45a-4f0f-b5c3-12f4571374c8 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:43:48 GMT