This is a list of 20 recommended non-American (European and Canadian, really) women on Twitter who write about, think about, or work in international security or foreign policy.
The new issue of International Security magazine contains a hair-raising article about nuclear weapons.
The network I once respected as a necessary antidote to liberal media now peddles craven lies and Russian disinformation.
As the World Health Organization votes in a monumental open ballot for its new chief, the developing world and the developed world are in a battle of ideas.
It seems that, because of Fury, I will forever be known by some parties as the filmmaker who failed to do his homework.
This is from the chapter of the book that I most enjoyed writing.
The Saudis are thrilled that Barack Obama is out of office. But will they get what they need from the Trump administration?
I give high marks to the film’s authenticity, which portrays true cohesion.
I’ll be speaking twice in D.C. on Tuesday, May 23.
Especially after a hard day of shooting down Nazis.
Not even the greatest dealmaker the world has ever seen can bridge a divide if the two sides aren’t ready to get to work.
The president has given Defense Secretary James Mattis almost unprecedented power. But Trump won’t tolerate his disobedience for long.
Today, the lessons learned by Special Forces Berlin serve to guide the renewal of the Unconventional Warfare mission by U.S. Army Special Forces.
By the time I got to Cat Lo in mid-1970 the Navy was turning over all the American Swift Boats to the Vietnamese.
I believe H.R. McMaster, in the role of being President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, is caught on the horns of a dilemma.
And four other questions the President's team needs to answer before expanding America’s longest war.
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.
America’s national security demands it.
The weekend’s massive “ransomware” attack exposed the glaring vulnerabilities in our cybersecurity readiness.
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.
Is the global health community ready to stop another outbreak?
Democracy is less resilient in the United States than in Europe because Americans forgot it needed to be.
My family had fled the war in Vietnam. Yet here I was in Afghanistan, in a war in which I saw strong similarities.
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.
If Republicans have a shred of intellectual integrity, they’ll ignore the president’s flailing, and follow the evidence wherever it leads.
America’s rule of law now hinges on whether the GOP still feels loyalty to the republic, not just Republicans.
The short answer: no.
With the reckless, fishy sacking of James Comey, President Trump’s domestic behavior has become more than an embarrassment — it’s an international liability.
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.
Our country is at a crossroads, and the right path forward must not include Donald Trump as president.
Is Western liberalism safe with Macron’s win, or are more and more Europeans really migrating to the right?
We lack confidence in the continuing mission and in whether all our efforts over the last decade make any difference.
The MiTTs became a pick-up team within a pick-up team in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Bagdad.
A country desperate for a sense of renewal has chosen Emmanuel Macron, a leader restless in his pursuit of destiny.
This book offers a surprisingly lively account of where France is at.
As instructed, put microphone in tuna filet (not inexpensive!), fed to my cat Behemoth, and watched it swallow said device.
To his supporters, Emmanuel Macron represents France’s future. Now he just has to convince everyone else.
Adding to the friction involving the Blackhearts Brigade was the nature of the fight.
My wife and I are in Paris for a quick break before my next book is published later this month.
A lot of people underestimate the number of British civilians killed in World War II.
With upcoming trips to Europe and the Middle East, what can we expect from these high-profile and greatly anticipated meetings?
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