Who’s Really to Blame for Istanbul Airport Attack?
A cynical strategy of supporting Islamists and playing enemies off one another has put Turkey's security at risk.
A cynical strategy of supporting Islamists and playing enemies off one another has put Turkey's security at risk.
From inspiring young women leaders to forging relationships with the hardest hitters on the international stage, how will Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s legacy live on?
The presence of the US 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Syria to take part in the campaign to capture Raqqa marks a significant shift in U.S. policy in the Middle East, and heralds an unknown future for the city’s civilians.
Uriah P. Levy helped end flogging in the Navy, suffered from anti-Semitic attacks, and was court-martialed six times (he disliked being insulted).
Dean Gooderham Acheson, the son of Canadian immigrants, graduate of Groton, Yale, and Harvard Law, was probably the most consequential American diplomat of the twentieth century.
The U.S. Army needs to better prepare to fight in megacities, said Gen. Mark Milley, the service’s chief of staff, on Tuesday.
So....let me tell you about last night...which will go down as the GREATEST NIGHT I'VE EXPERIENCED in a long time!
Can Liberia’s rock-star president lead her country to another leader?
Volodymyr Horbulin is one of Ukraine’s most accomplished elder statesmen.
The recent spate of leaks seems to be all but designed to impede President Trump’s administration from accomplishing its political agenda.
If the United States wants to remain ahead of the forthcoming cyberwars, it’s going to need a new generation of leaders.
The FBI, NSA, Germany, Britain, Australia: Is there anybody America's dissembler-in-chief can't alienate?
A generation of innocents is going to grow up traumatized because of America’s immigration laws.
So argue two Marine officers in an interesting article in the March issue of the Marine Corps Gazette.
Both are interesting picks.
Institutional instinct might have led Army leadership to create a new military professional education program at the War College. Instead, Gen. Odierno chose to look outside the system of the Army for ideas and energy.
I think I have learned more about the U.S. military culture from reading “Duffel Blog” than I have from many hundreds of academic articles on the subject.
I wouldn’t mess with “Jerry.”
The president’s recent tweets aren’t just conspiratorial gibberish – they’re the erratic ravings of a guilty conscience.
China was once a cheerleader for Trump. But now that the president is singing a different tune, that could quickly change.
There are three things that the Army needs today to improve its strategic usefulness: increased strategic mobility, a flattened command structure, and improved situational awareness.
Soldiers and civilians die in the war against terrorists. But sending a message to our allies that we’re in the fight is more important.
A list of interesting facts and news.
This is from The Warbird, a new book by Tara Copp, the Pentagon correspondent for “Stars & Stripes.” It is about her grandfather and her grand-uncle during World War II, and also her own experience of war in Iraq.
I’m thinking there is a good movie to be made about the Fat Leonard scandal.
The Republican party's racists were once pushed to the fringes. In the Trump era, they're in charge.
Lilianne Ploumen’s bold, brave act could be the start of a concerted backlash against Washington.
The Pentagon is sending in more troops to Syria and Afghanistan. And, apparently, the president has been made “aware.” Is that it?
Yes, it’s a flawed body. But if Trump abandons the HRC, it will give Russia, China, and Iran a free hand to rewrite the global rules on human rights.
How can the men of the Marines United Facebook group, who all pledged an oath to serve and protect their country and their fellow Marines, violate their own female comrades by illegally consuming and sharing nude photos and videos of them?
Come on down! Here’s the info.
“Grant attacked.”
Here is an exchange I had with Lieutenant Colonel Jeannette Haynie, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, who is working on her doctoral dissertation.
The other day I saw a list of the “Top 25 British war films.”
The Islam-hating provocateur isn't going to be the next prime minister of the Netherlands. But he's already won.
For most of my career I have been traveling the world observing other countries in various states of dysfunction and answering this same question.
With the British Expeditionary Force in 1940.
The jury is still out about whether the latest CIA document release will cause harm. But what they could potentially be holding back may be more alarming.
Former Marine Sgt. Alexander McCoy, a member of the Best Defense Council of the Former Enlisted, has a good article in the New York Times on how the Marine Corps could deal better with women.
On January 23, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in an interview with Fox News, named Mel Laird and Harold Brown, as his two favorite defense secretaries.
As a combat-zone veteran wife and mother of a teenage son I think about national security from my own home base.
North Korea isn’t testing its missiles. It’s preparing for a nuclear first strike.
Women have gotten screwed for millennia, and that’s not a legacy that can be shaken off in a few short decades.
The anti-American group has become the preferred intelligence service for a conspiracy-addled White House.
For those keeping score in our contest to pick President Trump’s first foreign policy crisis, these are the ones that haven’t happened yet.
Weapon of Choice maps military innovation from the battlefield to the bureaucrat, from soldier to scientist.
The chief chaplain of the Canadian military appointed an advisor on indigenous religions.
What are the chances of another civil war breaking out in this country in the next 10 to 15 years?
With a new Trump administration changing policy from Israel to Yemen, the volatile region could be in for a wild ride.
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