A Guy in the World

Loren DeJonge Schulman, a former Pentagon and NSC staffer, now at the Center for a New American Security, has a a must read essay abou...

Franz-Stefan Gady wrote an essay a few months ago that I think merits careful consideration.  His point is that Americans have experie...

Last week, President Trump spoke to the Space Council and announced his direction to the Department of Defense to create a new military ...

The Spring, the world was aghast when Trump attacked our NATO allies and questioned the value of the NATO alliance.  I explained why Tru...

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 ...