Month: December 2017

There was more than a touch of irony in today’s arrival of the Airbus A380 super-jumbo jet in New York and Los Angeles. On its maiden flights to both cities,…

On the Sunday editorial page, The New York Times opines (as only it can) on “The Army After Iraq,” offering its thoughts on how the service should be rebuilt after…

When NASA fired disgraced astronaut Lisa Nowak earlier this month, we predicted that the Navy Captain would be assigned to some low-visibility post at one of the service’s training bases…

From her op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times, I learned that Kitty Kelly, that erst-while biographer of the rich and famous, attended a Catholic convent school as a young girl.…

The CIA has reportedly confirmed what’s been rumored for months: last year’s nuclear test by North Korea was, in fact, a flop. According to Reuters, CIA Director General Michael Hayden…

We’ve often taken the military to task for its handling of information operations in the GWOT. On many occasions, it seems that the terrorists are far more nimble and adept…

The head of Israel’s missile defense program says that recent modifications to the Arrow II system will allow it to successfully intercept and destroy any ballistic missile in the Middle…

It hasn’t received a lot of attention (at least, not yet), but President Bush has approved a new counter-intelligence (CI) strategy for the United States. The Director of National Intelligence…

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf apparently isn’t a student of history. Before embarking on his disastrous policy of appeasement with Al Qaida and the Taliban in the western tribal lands, one…

In today’s edition of “The Swamp,” the blog of the Chicago Tribune’s Washington Bureau, reporter Frank James engages in a little bit of journalistic malpractice that, unfortunately, has become SOP…