James A. Warren

Washington has been totally outmaneuvered by Tehran since the War on Terror and Iran is now looking to push the U.S. out of the Middle East altogether.

Fears of a regional conflict are understandable, because the war has already spread far past Gaza and Israel.

Israel has little choice but to attack Hamas after last week’s invasion and massacres. But recent history has shown such incursions are incredibly hard to “win.”

Once Rudolph Vrba became one of the handful of prisoners who escaped from the notorious concentration camp, he tried desperately to warn those on the outside.

Even his fans and allies flinched when Putin made a recent nuclear threat, but the real takeaway is that the threat of nuclear Armageddon is worse than ever, with or without Putin.

An excellent memoir by Elliot Ackerman lays bare all the good intentions, bad policies, and missteps that led to the chaos of collapse in 2021.

Beijing has always insisted Taiwan is part of China, and its sneering attitude toward the U.S. and its allies makes the threat more dire by the day.

The current commandant is a little worried about what conflict with China could look like, but his solutions, say retired generals and Corps members, are also problematic.

The intel failures behind conflicts from Vietnam to Afghanistan are not identical, but most of them come down to the people in power not listening to the spies on the ground.

Perpetuating the nonsense myths of the greatest generation who saved democracy in WWII distorts history and teaches all the wrong lessons.