These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and…
We know war is filled with sorrow and loss. And yet, we turn to books, films, and relics of war to remind ourselves of the human potential for heroism. Homer’s Iliad, a myth, is among the most unforgettable tales of…
A lot of men who have seen combat refuse to talk about it. Which is too bad for both them and for us. PTSD is a very real problem (I have been in combat with at least two people I…
It’s been two years since a suicide bomber detonated 20 pounds of explosives at the Abbey Gate at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul during the single-most-disorganized embarrassment of a withdrawal that the U.S. has conducted. Thirteen U.S. service…
The United States, writes Max Boot in the Washington Post, has “exaggerated fears about Chinese power.” Boot compares U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael A. Minihan — whose memo revealed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s October 2022 “war council” and who has…
A soon-to-be-Republican-led Congress has promised to investigate the calamitous departure from Afghanistan. This is how it should be and is consistent with our country’s tradition of oversight and investigation. But an even more important priority is investigating the armed forces’…
We are approaching the one-year anniversary of the collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government and its replacement with the Taliban. The Diplomat’s managing editor, Catherine Putz, spoke with Justine Fleischner of Afghan Peace Watch about what has transpired since then….
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT TO MY TAS READERS: My New Year 2o22 Resolution for my readers at The American Spectator is to: 1. Reduce all my 2,000–3,000-word articles to the same trim-and-svelte 800–1,200-word lengths that normal columnists write, and 2. Publish twice-weekly on predictable…
If we are honest, Afghanistan never was going to end well. That does not mean it had to end as an American Tire Fire the way Biden cataclysmically has perpetrated on our national standing. But this had “MESS” written all…
