One connection that impacted the war in Iraq for the better was the friendship between two soldiers, Gen. David H. Petraeus and retired Gen. John M. “Jack” Keane.

It’s not always that candidates for president or vice president have children who are serving in the military during wartime. But the 2008 election will be decidedly different.

David Barstow provided a fascinating report in yesterday’s New York Times, about the Bush administration’s courting of retired military brass who provide military analysis to the TV networks and other media outlets.

Lawrence Haas isn’t the first to suggest that Democrats might blow a sure thing.

Yet Haas, vice president of the U.S.-based Committee on the Present Danger, offers a theory that goes well beyond the Democrats-always-shoot-themselves-in-the-foot school of thought.

He suggests that the party may lose the White House in 2008 because of its stance on national security.

The U.S. Army has accused an American company based in Kuwait of paying nearly $300,000 in bribes to obtain military contracts.

According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Alabama, Lee Dynamics International was suspended from contracting services in July, after an investigation in which two Army officers admitted taking bribes.