Best Defense

Here is the response I received from retired Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, who was McMaster’s deputy commander in Iraq.

In 2006 I wrote an article portraying the success of McMaster's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment — and he went a bit batshit.

You can never be entirely sure of the motivation of a government official leaking to you, even when they tell you why they are giving you the information.

Pilots and rated aviators are leading every day, but unfortunately it’s largely out of sight — behind a vault door, in the cockpit, or in the air.

The other day, Vanity Fair's Jim Warren carried a comment of mine about how nowadays there are a lot of smart women in national security commenting on Twitter. Here’s the list I gave him.

I’ve been harping in this blog for awhile on the possibility of another American division, so I was interested to see a new novel tackle that subject.

I hadn’t knocked around Paris for decades, so I was surprised on my recent trip at how much the city has embraced the use of English.

Dog keeps a lookout on the wing of a Hurricane in March, 1941.

Despite all the resources now available to our veterans, we were missing the one thing we needed most: each other.

American strategic civil-military relationships are haunted by an inability to diagnose whether they are pathological or healthy.

The soldiers of the Blackheart Brigade had significant accomplishments, to include inflicting great costs to al Qaeda in Iraq, and providing time and breathing space for the central government of Iraq.

That’s the number of Americans surveilled by the NSA last year in the course of trying to gather info on bad actors.