“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
In its review of Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War, (Basic Books, 2016) the Wall Street Journal notes, “Mr. Kitfield, a veteran national-security reporter whose…
By James Kitfield, VOCATIV, Mar 20, 2017 Not since establishment of the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities in February of 1973 has Washington, D.C. witnessed a Capitol Hill hearing quite like this. On Monday FBI…
By James Kitfield, Originally published by Yahoo News on March 3, 2017 Dropping all his claims during the campaign that he had a secret and “foolproof” plan for defeating ISIS “quickly and effectively and having…
In picking H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser, President Trump hired a maverick military intellectual who won’t put up with any nonsense. By JAMES KITFIELD Originally published by POLITICO Magazine, February 21, 2017 When…
By JAMES KITFIELD Originally published in POLITICO Magazine, February 17, 2017 Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward spent much of the past decade leading fellow SEAL commandos into some of the darkest corners on earth. He…