“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, 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…
By James Kitfield Among the countless tweets that appear like snowflakes each morning from the account of @realDonaldTrump, one late last December landed with a deafening thud. The reverberations from that seemingly innocuous, 140-characters-or-less message…
Chief White House Counselor Stephen Bannon said he wants to “destroy” the establishment and bring the state “crashing down.” He’s off to a good start. By James Kitfield, updated February 10, 2017 This article…
Much has been written about the ahistorical nature of Donald Trump, the first U.S. president with no experience in government or the military. After his first one hundred days, history is reasserting itself. James Kitfield…
C-SPAN: DECEMBER 22, 2016 James Kitfield on Twilight Warriors James Kitfield talked about his book Twilight Warriors, in which he explains how the U.S. national security apparatus has adapted to fight terrorism since the terrorist…
This article originally appeared in The Atlantic, on November 19, 2016 Clues are beginning to emerge about President-elect Trump’s approach to world affairs. By James Kitfield By the time modern American presidents receive the keys…
This article originally appeared on the Vocativ website. By James Kitfield, Jan 11, 2017 Unruffled by the periodic shouts of protesters, Secretary of State Designate Rex Tillerson weathered his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign…