A Guy in the World

I have been watching the Ken Burns series on the Vietnam War with great interest.  One of the themes of the series is that many of the ini...

A few months back Mark Moyar, the director of the Center for Military and Diplomatic History, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times , argu...

We are living in an age of machine autonomy.  We have autonomous cars on our highways already, and there are some who believe that driverl...

Loren DeJonge Schulman, who spent much time in the Situation Room while on the NSC staff, has a wonderful and often funny piece at Defens...

One of my frustrations has been the grossly distorted dialogue on the use of drones, or remotely piloted aircraft.  Much of the public di...

The electoral phase of the French Centrist Resolution is now over, and the victory is pronounced.  A party that did not even exist a year ...

Professor Francis Gavin of SAIS-John Hopkins University, has a wonderful essay about the transformation of U.S. foreign policy after World W...

One of my more thoughtful Facebook friends (who is far more conservative than me) asked some very interesting questions about the leak of...

In my last post, I lamented that some important developments were getting lost because of our tendency to discuss the latest bright shiny...

With President Trump providing all of us a bright shiny object to focus on each day, some pretty profound developments in the world are n...