Generals to the left and generals to the right — onward rode the Pentagon. For some reason today’s generals appear to have a penchant for attracting attention, and not the glorious kind. It really can’t be blamed solely on the…
Syria may be engulfed in the flames of civil war, thousands are rioting in Istanbul, a young contractor has stolen the secrets of the U.S. international and domestic surveillance system, and the American Congress continues its endless debate on “securing”…
Iraq is in the middle of a civil conflict that but for the lack of international media interest would be called a war. Sunni/Shia competition has existed for generations. This blood rivalry underpinned Saddam Hussein’s dictatorial rule and dominates Iraqi…
When President Obama announced the United States would pivot to Asia from the Middle East, it sounded as if he had decided the issue of Middle Eastern radicalism would be best ignored. The terminology he used implied that too much…
The Vietnam War destroyed many traditions that had existed since World War II: one was the important relationship between most journalists and the U.S. Government. There had been a tacit accord that American correspondents would not divulge – or even…
Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was run down last week by a vehicle targeting him as he walked along a London street. He was then repeatedly stabbed with knives and eventually decapitated with a meat cleaver….
Beijing’s leadership expertly follows a tricky path of maintaining close financial and commercial relations with Washington while simultaneously strutting about militarily. American businessmen and visiting politicians are wined and dined by well-connected Chinese counterparts in the luxurious restaurants and clubs…
Just as the American international security establishment — DoD, CIA, State — maintains continuing assessments of nations considered potential or actual adversaries, these countries do the same in respect to the United States. The DPRK (North Korea) openly states it…
Cyprus caused more interest in its financial state in late March than it had since the rumor spread in the mid-nineties that a group of favored Russian oligarchs were wanting to turn the Greek sector of that ancient Mediterranean isle…