“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, October 2018 WARSAW – Near the end of September, Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, arrived in Warsaw…
In an ‘enemy of my enemy’ calculation, experts see Putin poking the U.S. in the eye for over a year in Afghanistan By James Kitfield Secretary of State James Mattis and US Central Command…
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…
By JAMES KITFIELD, August 07, 2014 In this exclusive exit interview with Breaking Defense contributor James Kitfield, the outgoing chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, talks about metastasizing Islamic terrorism, his…
By James Kitfield As U.S. and NATO officials have scrambled to react to the evolving crisis in Ukraine, they have noted an alarming pattern of behavior by Russian President Vladimir Putin: At every juncture where…
By James Kitfield, Originally Published in Yahoo News, July 2014 Little noticed among the disturbing tableau of images coming out of Iraq in recent weeks is a changing of the guard evident at the…
Before the very real enmity that exists between the U.S. and Russian governments dooms the current initiative to secure Syrian chemical weapons, and continues to propel both nations along their trajectory towards a Cold…