China as Number One?: Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar
Tired of Afghanistan and all those messy, oil-ish wars in the Greater Middle East that just don’t seem to…
The Indypendent
Tired of Afghanistan and all those messy, oil-ish wars in the Greater Middle East that just don’t seem to…
Sleepwalking into the Imperial Dark: What It Feels Like When a Superpower Runs Off the Tracks
This can’t end well. But then, how often do empires end well, really? They live vampirically by feeding off…
Missing in the Japan Catastrophe: Thinking the Unthinkable
“Seldom more than thrice annually did any layman or stranger travel the old road that passed the abbey,…
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates just made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, and talk about embarrassment, even if in…
(N)ever Again: Old Secretaries of Defense Never Die, They Just Write Bestselling Memoirs
Talking about secretaries of defense… Oh, we weren’t? Well, let’s. After all, they’re in the news. Take former Secretary…
Cutting $100 Billion?… Easy, If Only Washington Had a Brain
Here’s the latest news from Congress, in case you’ve been in Afghanistan for the last couple of weeks. A…
As we’ve watched the dramatic events in the Middle East, you would hardly know that we had a thing…
In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul
“Slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to…
The Urge to Surge: Washington’s 30-Year High
If, as 2011 begins, you want to peer into the future, enter my time machine, strap yourself in, and…
One November’s Dead: The American War Dead Disappear into the Darkness
America’s heroes? Not so much. Not anymore. Not when they’re dead, anyway. Remember as the invasion of Iraq was…