When the Pentagon Top Brass Said No to the President
SHOWDOWNThe speculation intensifies by the day: Will the generals with whom our bellicose president has surrounded himself ever just say no? There is a precedent.
Is Obama’s Asia Pivot More Than Talk?
Sea ChangeAbandoning our Euro-centric ways and meaningfully engaging with Asia and the Pacific means building a military that is amphibious, airborne, and mobile.
Another Ceasefire, Another Assassination
Response / HistoryMark Perry recounts his role in a 2002 attempt to broker a ceasefire that was scuttled by an Israeli assassination of a Hamas military chief.