“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
Military Reporters & Editors Association Journalism Awards Online: James Kitfield, POLITICO Magazine, Yahoo News, Breaking Defense. The stories on American Jihad, narco-terrorism, Gen. Martin Dempsey and Mike Flynn represent a range of in-depth reporting…
General James “Mad Dog” Mattis This series of profiles originally appeared in December on the “Breaking Defense” website. By James Kitfield, Monday, December 19, 2016 The generals likely to hold top positions in the…
By James Kitfield Yahoo News, April 28, 2015 Not long ago, retired Marine Corps General John Allen was a pretty good argument for the wisdom of the old adage, “Be careful what you wish for.”…
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 July, 2014 In an unstable world, sophisticated weapons once only wielded by nation-states are increasingly falling into the hands of extremists, rebels, and other non-state actors. Just this week, Hamas has fired…
By JAMES KITFIELD, July 17, 2014 There’s an old trope in intelligence circles that defenders have to be right all the time, while the terrorists only need to get lucky once to execute a successful…