A Guy in the World

As I said in my  first post in this series , the analysis that should be used is to determine our vital national interests, determine th...

There are reports that President Trumps will propose a huge 37% cut to the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Deve...

In my last post , I discussed two ways not to talk about the appropriate level of defense spending.  Today, I want to discuss the analysis...

In both my time as General Counsel of the Army and General Counsel of the Air Force, I participated in the development of the defense budg...

We take lots of things for granted, and perhaps one of the best examples is the highly accurate weather reports we get on the local news e...

While the U.S. Government is huge, we do not seem to do a very good job of focusing on more than one big problem at a time.  This is a pro...

I don't want to turn this blog into yet another fact-checking site, but the following tweet by President Trump struck me as a ...

Wow, what a wild ride caused by our Tweeter-in-chief.  In the last day, I have had more time to reflect, and also have received questions ...

Our tweeter-in-chief is at it again.  In a series of tweets this morning, President Trump alleged that President Obama "had my 'w...

One of the many changes made during the Obama Administration was the end to most restrictions on women in ground combat roles.  To the Air...