Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.It was called ‘“the worst debate in American history” by more than one pundit and cable news anchor.The graphic descriptions of Tuesday night’s presidential debate between incumbent Donald Trump...
10 Foreign Policy Questions That Should Be Asked at the Presidential Debate (But Probably Won’t)
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.Tuesday’s highly anticipated debate between President Trump and Democratic challenger Vice President Joe Biden is expected to delve into several broad topics critical to today’s...
Let’s Do the Pentagon Time Warp Again
From The American Conservative:The Pentagon building just over the river from Washington D.C. is really an architectural marvel, and if there was any federal office space that reflected the true nature of its purpose, this 6.6 million square foot labyrinth, made up of...
Navy Will Dump Beloved Capt. Crozier After All
From The American Conservative:Maybe the Navy was just buying time or maybe they got more information, but according to reports the service is not going to reinstate Capt. Brett Crozier to his command of the USS Roosevelt.It also looks like, in order to take politics...
‘Mad Dog’ Mattis Rips Into Trump’s Photo Op and Troop Deployment Threat
From The American Conservative:President Trump’s former Secretary of Defense James Mattis has taken umbrage with the current Secretary of Defense’s use of the term “battlespace” referring to a federal security crackdown to recent...
General Milley Checks on His Troops… On the Streets of D.C.
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.There is nothing more cringe than a political photo op, but when the President of the United States sends his Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff out onto the streets during political protests...
Israel Wanted Soleimani Dead, Too
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.If there is one country for which the Thursday assassination of Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani was not a lamentable moment, it is Israel. According to reporting right after the popular Iranian military leader was...
Revenge? Military Industrial Complex Sponsors Eisenhower Ornament
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The military industrial complex gets its revenge – it small ways and big – against President Dwight Eisenhower, who not only named it but warned against it’s proliferation during his farewell address...
Court: FBI Must Destroy Memos Calling Antiwar.com a Threat
In a major victory for Antiwar.com, free speech and journalism, a federal appeals court has ruled that the FBI must expunge surveillance memos that agents had drafted about the website’s co-founders Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo in the early years following the 9/11...
The American Conservative Forum Mulls US Foreign Policy in the Trump Era
WASHINGTON – What is the fate of realism and restraint in the Trump era? The consensus among the foreign policy luminaries brought together by the American Conservative on Friday: Don’t expect much from the White House, even though global realities, i.e.,...
