Off Course
A B-52 lands on Andersen AB, Guam. The Air Force is currently investigating a crew deployed to that base for flying within two miles of a Chinese artificial island in…
The Gulf Boils Over
These are perilous times in the Persian Gulf. The region has largely been in free-fall since U.S. forces left Iraq in 2011. Without the stability–and influence–that result from an American…
Fanfare for the Common Man
This is the first New Year’s Day without my father. We buried him in early December, barely five weeks after his 100th birthday. He led a long, full and blessed…
The Bigger Bang Theory
Almost 24 hours after North Korea’s latest nuclear test, there is still squabbling and debate over exactly what transpired. Pyongyang insists it detonated a hydrogen bomb in an underground cavern…
Hillary's Smoking Gun, Redux
…From the “groove yard of forgotten favorites,” to borrow a phrase from El Rushbo: As Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal unfolded last year, we reminded readers that the former Secretary of…
Adrift
Tehran has released 10 American sailors who were detained yesterday, after one of their patrol boats became disabled in the Persian Gulf and drifted into Iranian waters near Farsi Island.…
The Two and Only, Redux
Back from a winter break, there’s no shortage of blog-worthy material, from North Korea’s latest ICBM test…err, space launch, to Hillary’s ever-escalating e-mail scandal and of course, the “official” start…
You Read it Here First
It remains one of the unanswered questions of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal: how did classified information make its way onto messages stored and transmitted by her “home brew system. Now,…
Symbolic Deterrence
So far, 2016 is shaping up as a busy year for North Korea, and it’s only February. Less than a week into the New Year, Pyongyang conducted its fourth underground…
Beijing Ups the Ante
Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea include the Spratly Islands (inside the outlined area) and the Parcel Islands to the northwest, off the coast of Vietnam (New…