What Can the US Salvage from the Syrian Debacle? The Kremlin has succeeded in ensuring the survival of the Assad regime and has largely marginalized the American role in...
Is Beijing Already Testing the Trump Administration? Events in the past week have illustrated how China might respond to the Trump's plans to "reset" U.S.-China relations.
Symbols of Sacrifice Should Not Be for Sale "The buying and selling of Purple Hearts transforms these symbols of our brave service members' sacrifices into commodities."
The Arab Spring: Six Years Later The Arab Spring has given way to a winter of economic stagnation and violence that has plunged Syria, Libya and Yemen into...
The Kremlin Turns Its Attention to Libya With the future of the Assad regime now well in hand, the Kremlin has turned its attention to another former Soviet client.
SitRep Mosul: The Lessons So Far It's likely that Mosul will be secured within a 3-6-month period and that Raqqa will fall by sometime in 2018.
Vladimir Putin: The Art of the Bluff No Russian leader since Prime Minister Grigory Potemkin, has done a more masterful job of blending guile, audacity and bluff.
HASC Chairman: Here's How We Will Make America's Military Great Again More money is certainly required, but so is reform of the Pentagon and how it does business.
Are We Already Fighting World War III? We cannot win this war if we are unwilling to admit we are already fighting it.
Energy Resiliency Is a Force Multiplier While the DoD has commenced many energy initiatives in recent years, its dependence on fossil fuel still presents a...
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...