A friend of mine lent me some books by Israeli historian Uri Millstein. Millstein is now an octogenarian. He has spent his life in critical engagement with the history of his country. He relies mostly on interviews with people who…
Legend divulged that the cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Okinawa, Japan’s Camp Courtney, the headquarters of the commanding general of the Third Marine Division, was where Japanese soldiers committed harakiri rather than be taken prisoner during World War II….
One of the more preposterous aspects of the protests roiling American college campuses is the insistence of the students that they be spared any adverse consequences for their actions. They expect no suspensions, no expulsions, and most of all no…
Unsealed on Friday, the second criminal indictment of former president Trump charges him with 37 counts of criminal conduct in unlawfully retaining classified documents, obstructing justice, and making false statements to a grand jury. It also charges him with disclosing…
President Biden has nominated Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding Army Gen. Mark Milley. He will probably be confirmed quickly. Brown is an F-16 driver of…
There are no discernible principles behind President Joe Biden’s policy decisions except to undo everything that former President Donald Trump accomplished and to blame Trump for whatever may go badly. Last week featured two perfect examples: Biden’s new offer of…
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay By Craig L. Symonds (Oxford University Press, 496 pages, $29.95) We have no dearth of Political Generals, that is, with a capital “P.” Gen. Mark Milley, for example, claimed…
The Russian war to conquer Ukraine is nearly 11 months old. The U.S. media, which demands instant gratification, has grown bored with it. Nearly the only media mention of Ukraine occurred when top-secret intelligence information about Ukraine (and Iran and…
When then-President Donald Trump had Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accompany him on a visit to a Washington, D.C., church to denounce Black Lives Matter protesters who were besieging the White House, Democrats had…
