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,…
February 7 marks the 27th anniversary of the creation of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). As it has often proved to be, MEMRI is a highly valuable tool in our fight against Islamic fascism. Aggregating English language news…
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,…
Following Pete Hegseth’s confirmation, he did not hesitate to order the Pentagon to cut DEI policies and initiatives in compliance with President Trump’s executive orders. In doing so, the United States Air Force pulled back on basic military training curricula for…
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…
First, for those of you who might have missed it when I first started using the term a few weeks ago, let me define the Old Game. Simply put, the Old Game is the practice of throwing out sleaze as…
Dear Mr. Hegseth Congratulations. The good news is that unless something extraordinary happens, you will be confirmed to the post of secretary of defense in the next week or two. President Trump comes into office with a mandate to reverse…
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…
I’ve been saying for a while that Pete Hegseth’s confirmation process was going to mark a major change in American politics that was facilitated and caused by the election of Donald Trump on Nov. 5. It’s pretty clear that the…
