Eight-thousand souls are deployed in a single carrier strike group. The multitude is spread across the aircraft carrier as well as its satellite submarines and destroyers. Every night afloat, the 1MC, the announcement system, sounds. These speakers — which would…
It’s hard now to recapture just how “leading from behind” became a catchphrase for Barack Obama’s approach to foreign policy. Attribution for the phrase, at least in the Obama context, is all over the place. Did he ever say it?…
In his book on maritime power, To Rule the Waves, author Bruce Jones points out that, if the United States is to wage war with anyone other than Canada or Mexico, we need to do it with naval power. Ever…
Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) recently released a new plan to increase defense spending and replenish America’s military arsenal. As the highest-ranking Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Wicker is on the frontlines in Congress, warning his colleagues of…
June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of “D-Day,” the Allied landings on the Normandy coast of France. We tend to make a great deal of decennial anniversaries, and this one, in particular, deserves a special salute. Given that the…
This article is adapted from Baruch Apisdorf’s remarks at a Soldiers Save Lives (SSL) fundraiser in Manhattan earlier this month. These past six months have been the hardest six months of my life. I always thought that I was in…
The Biden administration quietly ordered the withdrawal of more than 1,000 American troops from an important drone base in Niger. On today’s episode of The Spectacle podcast, host Scott McKay explains the potential ramifications of effectively handing over a key…
This afternoon, President Joe Biden set out to make my job difficult. I’m fairly certain he doesn’t know I exist (we’ll keep it that way), and even if he did, he likely wouldn’t care. Nonetheless, as he affixed his signature…
Did you know that President Joe Biden’s uncle was eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea? At least, that’s what Biden told an audience during a visit to a war memorial in Scranton, Pennsylvania, last week. (READ MORE: Columbia University…
