“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, POLITICO 03/15/2018 09:26 PM EDT A year into his tenure as the country’s top intelligence official, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is reshuffling the office that oversees America’s 16 intelligence agencies,…
James Kitfield, Yahoo News•March 2018 With the guns finally silent and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) expelled from Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria — the twin capitals of the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate…
The once solid U.S.-Turkish relationship has foundered on miscalculations, grievances, and increasingly divergent worldviews By James Kitfield, Breaking Defense When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently visited Ankara he found Turkey unrecognizable as the ostensibly Muslim democracy and…
By James Kitfield Friday’s release of a classified memo alleging anti-Trump bias and misdeeds at the Department of Justice and FBI will likely be seen by the general public as one more act of naked…
t National Geographic television’s 8-part series “Chain of Command” puts viewers on the front lines and inside inner sanctums of the U.S. military’s global fight against violent extremists. The series gives the American…
British Muslim convert Sally-Anne Jones dressed as a nun in a photo circulated online, and her husband, British jihadist Junaid Hussain, in his Twitter photo. (Photos: Tim Stewart News; Twitter) By James Kitfield – Yahoo…
James Kitfield Yahoo News 7 November 2017 When President Trump lands in China on Wednesday, the world will witness a rare spectacle. The leaders of the world’s two most powerful nations will meet against the…
By James Kitfield Yahoo News October 19, 2017 On a chill November day in 2010, a crowd of mourners gathered in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, America’s Valhalla. The highest-ranking U.S. military officer to…
The Atlantic JAMES KITFIELD, AUG 26, 2017 The stifling heat of the tarmac beneath the wings of his C-17 aircraft, the dragon’s breath backwash from nearby helicopters, and the unmistakable, acrid smell of summertime Baghdad…
By JAMES KITFIELD, BREAKING DEFENSE on August 22, 2017 When he stepped before the cameras last night to deliver his first prime time address to the nation, Donald Trump became the third president to reluctantly take…