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…
The Washington Post has a problem. How should it handle one of its most important leakers of inside government information — a person it exposed — considering that its treatment of him might discourage future leaks from other high-level government officials?…
We have grown accustomed — far too accustomed — to generals and admirals acting as political bureaucrats instead of warriors. The current furor over the revelations in Bob Woodward’s new book about Gen. Mark Milley’s outrageous phone calls to his…
As much reported, the new book Peril by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa depicts the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, as completely ignoring the Constitutional chain of command in order to go…
The ruling class treated the Trump presidency as a singular crisis in the history of the country. From the constant shrieking of the media, one might have thought that America had fallen into the hands of a foreign occupier. Because…
Americans have pretty short attention spans on matters of national security and foreign policy. We can focus on a real crisis — like Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal — but once we’re assured that the crisis is over, our attention drifts….
Last evening, Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller put his military career and livelihood on the line by posting a powerful and moving Facebook video in which he poses inconvenient questions about the mess in Afghanistan. Scheller, a 17-year Marine infantry veteran,…
President Biden, his cabinet, and his advisers all continue to display a stupefying level of incompetence in Afghanistan that clearly flows down from the president. On Wednesday, Biden said, “The idea that somehow there’s a way to have gotten out…
