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…
It was only a few weeks ago that President Joe Biden announced that we were committed to maintaining Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin is recognizing two parts of Ukraine — Donetsk and Luhansk — as…
October was an eventful month in the sense that it was filled with events, most of which weren’t consequential. Those that were — the White House’s amnesia about the Americans still held in Afghanistan, President Biden’s continued border crisis, the…
Today’s generals fail upward, having stood by while the Afghan catastrophe they were certain would come to pass did just that; our veep sails on, seemingly oblivious to nearly everything; and a Democrat Congress fulfills the legislative design of the…