Defense Secretary Hegseth recently did much to reform our bloated military hierarchy when he recently directed a 30 percent reduction in the number of four-star general and flag officers (GO/FOs) of which there are currently 38. He left the decision…
Foreign Affairs magazine continues its establishment anti-Trump ethos with a feature article by Hal Brands of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the American Enterprise Institute titled “The Renegade Order,” which parrots his new book The Eurasian Century:…
Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories By Yukio Mishima (Vintage International, 272 pages, $16) There has always been reason to fear The vengeful rage of angry ghosts. …
While the White House claims it is committed to strengthening American jobs and manufacturing through foreign investment and shifting supply chains to allies, its actions tell a different story. It’s a story where the political demands of reelection reign supreme,…
Elbridge Colby served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development in the Trump administration and is credited with shifting U.S. defense strategy from its focus on the global War on Terror and “small wars” to great…
Last week, China anchored one of its two “Monster Ships” — the largest Coast Guard ships in the world — within the exclusive economic zone of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The vessels are 165 meters long and displace…
In 1981 Chaim Potok published a novel about Japan called The Book of Lights based on his experience of living in Japan as a chaplain in the U.S. army after the Korean War. Potok had been raised as a traditional…
Joseph Nye, the intellectual champion of “soft power” and adviser to Democrat presidents reaching back to Jimmy Carter, is one of those liberals whom Lenin purportedly called “useful idiots”: intelligent, well-meaning intellectuals who always seem to give the benefit of…
Arming East Asia: Deterring China in the Early Cold War By Eric Setzekorn (Naval Institute Press, 348 pages, $30) The more you reflect on history, the better Dwight Eisenhower as a president looks. Liberal historians and political scientists, enthralled with…
