“So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never be completed about a world we can never really understand.”
Philip Graham,
Former President & Publisher
The Washington Post
By James Kitfield The outrage and backlash from military retirees resulting from the recent Congressional budget deal that trimmed one percentage-point from the annual cost-of-living increases in military pensions bodes ill for efforts to reform…
With Washington’s debt-limit crisis and government shutdown having shifted from an argument about Obamacare to a broader debate about budgets and spending, there is talk once again of a potential “grand bargain.” The prospects of…
Steering the U.S. military through the difficult transition between war and what comes after has historically proven a daunting challenge for Pentagon leaders. After every “war to end all wars,” the American people have demanded…