Although I retired from government service in 2018, I still stay in touch with many friends I made while working in the nuclear weapons community. One of them routinely shares articles of interest across the broad spectrum of nuclear security…

Amid the myriad challenges that confront us in the coming months, it’s easy to simply pigeonhole African issues under the heading of: “We’ll get around to it, someday, maybe.” That, as I’ve noted previously in writing about Africa, has been…

Last week I read the alarming headlines. West Point cadets will no longer be inculcated with and committed to the values of “Duty, Honor, Country,” the motto of the United States Military Academy since the end of the 19th Century….

Between Mark Bowden’s outstanding book Black Hawk Down and director Ridley Scott’s spectacular film of the same name, most Americans have at least a passing familiarity with the “Battle of Mogadishu,” Oct. 3–4, 1993, a battle in which 18 American troops…

It’s difficult to choose the single worst portion of Thursday night’s State of the Union address — for sheer unmitigated awfulness, it was a target-rich environment. Personally, however, the lowest point came when Capitol Police arrested Steve Nikoui, the father…

In my most recent article for American Spectator I wrote of the developing Russian threat to the Baltic states, signified by the Putin regime’s placement of Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on a wanted list, along with other figures from…