Ask and ye shall receive. This past Wednesday, I published an article here enjoining President Trump’s new Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, to undo the damage wrought by the much feted but overly conventional Gen. James Mattis during his tenure. Among…
The United States is threatened as never before from strategic rivals, such as the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation, yet don’t tell that to the Pentagon. This is particularly true in the little-referenced-but-all-important strategic domain of space — the…
If the first couple of years are any indication, Trump’s presidency will almost certainly go down in history as one of America’s most divisive and dramatic. Long-term friendships and family bonds have been shattered, and the unrest is such that…
In a White House press briefing earlier today, Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a press release from President Trump that stated that former CIA director John Brennan has officially had his security clearance revoked. While Brennan is no longer a government…
President Trump’s intelligence community leaders, led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, hate their boss. President Trump is their boss. In case the president missed their contempt, on the eve of his meeting with Russia’s…
W riting in his 1979 epic, Coup d’Etat: A Practical Handbook, Edward N. Luttwak claimed, “A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control…
So here’s the headline from House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, as reported after his appearance on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures show: FBI informant news ‘mother of all leaks,’ House Intel Committee Chair Nunes says The report says, in part, this: House…
Isn’t this just a tad curious? Here’s the headline in Wednesday’s Washington Post: Trump’s national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin. He did it anyway. The story begins this way: President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his…
I can’t help it. I keep reading story after story, hearing harangue after harangue on the television that the Trump/Russia “collusion” is our era’s Watergate, or maybe even worse. My conclusion, after all of this palaver, is that the news…