Does Trump need more data than the continuing bedlam in Iraq and Afghanistan to understand that one can earn a Princeton PhD by writing erudite-sounding drivel about “counterinsurgency” and still flunk war?

If Russia finds itself in a major escalation of hostilities in the Middle East and/or Europe, the troubles may not end there

Before the Democrats lock in their choice for President, they might want to know if Hillary Clinton broke the law with her unsecure emails and may be indicted

Secretary of State Clinton was harsh on subordinates who were careless with classified information, but those rules apparently weren’t for her, a troubling double standard

Only the blindest supporters of Secretary Clinton could fail to acknowledge that there is little or no daylight between her and the neocons

Gambling that President Obama will cooperate in seeking peace for Syria, Russian President Putin called back much of Russia’s military force dispatched to Syria last fall,

The more interesting story, in my view, is not that Rumsfeld was corrupt (yawn, yawn), but that so was his patsy, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, the country’s top uniformed military officer

One reason why Official Washington continues to insist that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “must go” is that he supposedly “gassed his own people” with…

The risk of Syria becoming a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia became real last week

The debate is only focused on whether the tactics worked, whether mistakes were made, not whether the decisions were wise or legal