Dont Bring Back the Powell Doctrine
If you ever served in the military or elsewhere in America’s security establishment, you will, like me, have experienced many ...
Should Intelligence Officers be Hunters or Gatherers?
Senior American leaders, from President Obama on down, and the U.S. intelligence community as a whole were caught flatfooted by ...
Failure of State: They Fired the Wrong Guy
The firing of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense raises more questions than it answers. Is it correct to blame ...
What the War Classics Teach Us about Fighting Terrorists
Clausewitz has taken a beating in the War on Terror. His theories on warfare initially came about coincident with the ...