A Nonpartisan Military Means a Political Military
President Trump’s visit to Iraq stirred up some discussion about the politicization of the military because some soldiers held up Trump flags and asked him […]
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Remembering the Patton Speech That Helped Win the War
World War II history is rich with some of the finest, most historically significant speeches of the 20th century. President Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech […]
2,000 Against Millions
Proclaim victory and pull out! On December 19, Donald Trump tweeted his own version of this classic military maxim as the president announced the withdrawal […]
Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Hinges on Turkey
Whether pulling the remaining U.S. troops from Syria turns out to be a bold and beneficial move or a stupid, harmful one depends on what […]
‘You Have Been in Afghanistan, I Perceive’
President Trump’s decisions to withdraw from Syria and to start drawing down the number of our troops in Afghanistan should come as welcome news to […]
Mattis Is Wrong—This Scholar-General Was Right
OK, let’s combine today’s two most obnoxious Washington-speak clichés into one ugly mashup: Trump has thrown the last adult in the room under the bus. […]
Seriously, Just Order the Pentagon to Build the Wall
The estimated price tag on President Trump’s “big, beautiful” southern border wall is $25 billion—a paltry sum compared with the ways government otherwise fritters away […]
Let’s Mobilize an Army of Stone Throwers on the Border
In the United States, even our Customs and Border Protection apologizes for doing its job. Allegedly, CBP “protects the public from dangerous people and materials […]
America Must Stand with Saudi Arabia in Yemen
Yemen has become the latest battleground in a regional intra-religious semi-cold war between the Sunni Arab states, nominally led by Saudi Arabia, and the Shiite-dominated […]
A European Army Will Not Be a Threat
The French and the Germans say they are intent on building a European Army independent of the United States. Don’t laugh. “We need a Europe […]
Reimagining Republicanism
For at least 25 years, the Republican Party has been promoting policies damaging both to its own political standing and to the middle class. In […]
Are We In Store For Another Great War?
In 1913, the world was experiencing one of the greatest moments of relative peace in recorded history. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars a […]
The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month—100 Years Ago
The First World War ended 100 years ago this month on November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. Nearly 20 million people had perished since the […]
Hello Honduras, Goodbye Columbus
On the morning of March 16, 1916, with World War I already raging in Europe but America still neutral, the Mexican bandito Pancho Villa led […]
Pesky Russian Agent Threatens Russia with Nukes
The long-running narrative of “collusion” between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russian intelligence peddled by hack journalists and entitled former U.S. “intelligence” officials has […]
A New Era for the China-Russia-U.S. Triangle
Nearly a half-century ago, President Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, established a successful U.S. strategy for dealing with America’s two most dangerous rivals. […]
The Bombs of August
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-fueled atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 repeated […]
America and the Risk of Pearl Harbor 2.0
In 1940, America launched an embargo against Japan. In 1941, Japan responded with a surprise attack on America’s Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. Fast forward […]
Protecting Taiwan From Chinese Aggression
The Chinese want to regain Taiwan as much as Abraham Lincoln desired to keep the southern states in the Union. Since the day that Taiwan […]
Confronting China: America Needs Japan, India, and Australia
When President Donald J. Trump was elected, one of his first decisions was to fulfill an early campaign promise: he abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement […]