“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 Next year the United States will withdraw its last combat troops from Afghanistan, ending more than a decade of conflict in that country. The threat from the core al Qaeda group that…
By James Kitfield For the wizards of Armageddon who devised the nuclear doctrine of “mutually assured destruction,” Ronald Reagan was a heretic. Armies of MAD scientists, engineers, and weapons jockeys on both sides of the…
By James Kitfield It has not been a good year for America’s armed forces. More than thirty instructors are under investigation for systematic sexual abuse of cadets at Lackland Air Force Base, the number of…
By James Kitfield The best place to understand how Washington’s political paralysis is endangering soldiers’ lives is Army leaderships’ collective unease is down a lonely road that exits Barstow, California, and bores thirty miles in…
By James Kitfield Last September the terrorist group al-Shabab came out of the shadows in Somalia to launch a coordinated assault on an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, killing 67 people and wounding many more…