In 2014, 'Decrepit' Ukrainian Army Hit the Refresh Button. Eight Years Later, It's Paying Off "The performance of Ukraine's military has been surprisingly strong against the larger and better equipped Russian military."
Making Top-Secret Intelligence Public Is Unusual – But Helped the US Rally the World Against Putin "The U.S. intelligence community apparently judged that the importance of preventing war was greater than any loss of...
Ukraine War Follows Decades of Warnings that NATO Expansion Could Provoke Russia As fighting rages across Ukraine, two versions of reality that underlie the conflict stare across a deep divide, neither...
Putin's Claim to Rid Ukraine of Nazis Is Especially Absurd Given Its History "Putin's selective telling of the past exaggerates the legacy of Nazism in Ukraine while ignoring the state's historic...
Military Experts React to Ukraine Invasion "Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision is already a historic act of aggression, one that has not been witnessed on the...
Why Can't NATO Admit Ukraine Has No Chance of Joining? "The declaration that NATO membership will not be offered to Ukraine and that missiles won't be stationed near each other's...
Falling Out of Love with War: It Could Never Live Up to My Expectations. I love war but I’m not “in love” with war. It’s like a relationship that went bad.
What Are False Flag Attacks – And Could Russia Make One Work in the Information Age? Both false flag attacks and allegations that states engage in them have a long history.
Invading Ukraine May Never Have Been Putin's Aim An invasion is not the only way the crisis in Ukraine can play out.
Discipline Is the Key to Military Safety "Too many commanders are more concerned with being popular than running tight ships."
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
