President Trump is about to unleash DOGE on the only government agency that has never passed an audit: the Pentagon. With an annual budget rapidly approaching a trillion dollars per year, no other pot of discretionary spending comes close. Moreover,…
Eliot Cohen is a respected military historian. I have most of his books in my professional library and I was one of his students at the national defense security studies course at Syracuse at the turn of the century. However,…
As the Senate slouches toward a vote on Pete Hegseth’s nomination as President Donald J. Trump’s secretary of defense, it’s fair to ask: Can this man actually run the Defense Department? Even Hegseth’s critics concede that he is perfectly qualified to preach from the Pentagon’s bully pulpit. He is…
As Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth is grilled by senators, with Democrats attacking Hegseth’s supposed lack of qualifications, some history is called for. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (DoD) was created in 1947 in the Truman administration, a…
How bizarre it was to watch Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, being abused at his confirmation hearing by the Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Until Trump picked him for his cabinet, I didn’t…
The accusations against Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, are lamentable but, in a strange way, oddly refreshing. They represent a return to normalcy in Washington after four years of the bizarro world of the Biden administration and…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to serve as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is in the hot seat. I fear Hegseth, a combat veteran and Fox & Friends weekend anchor, is not up to the job. I’d rather see…
When I started writing news articles for The Town Crier at Los Angeles’ Paul Revere Junior High School in 1978, our journalism teacher stressed the importance of getting sources on the record — if not all, at least a couple of…
When did conservatives last hear such widespread media opposition to a president nominating “unqualified, extreme, and controversial” appointees to high government positions? As a past Ronald Reagan Office of Personnel Management nominee, I can attest to the fact that he…
