Gobsmacked. There's no other word to describe my reaction to Trump's latest assertion of the power to disclose intelligence informat...

When I first heard Donald Trump use the slogan "America First," I wondered if anyone working on his campaign was aware of the hist...

On August 4, 1914, Germany attacked neutral Belgium. Great Britain protested that the invasion violated Germany's treaty obligation to r...

A little over a month ago, I posted a reflection on the danger of failing to live up to the international security guarantee the nuclear po...

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” ― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Pu...

The West's contribution to the totally unprecedented challenge of conversion of the Soviet Union to a democratic and market-based societ...

Here is the agreement of 1994 whereby Ukraine gave up her nuclear weapons in return for a security guarantee. Russian occupation of Crime...

Что Делать ? Is the title of one of Lenin's books. "What is to be done?" is one way to translate the phrase. I like the simp...

Make no mistake about it. The violence in Kiev we saw on TV was orchestrated in Moscow. Or perhaps in Sochi. The map below depicts the mai...

We last left the president sailing aboard USS Iowa on November 14th, 1943, on his way to Teheran . To bring readers up to date, here are the...

"One trains for the known, but educates for the unknown...." Thomas Ricks

November 12, 1943, President Roosevelt and his senior advisers traveled on the President's yacht Potomac to the Norfolk area to board US...

July 28, 1943: Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers a fireside chat on the fall of Mussolini. And what a chat it was! No American who heard ...

Yesterday's Washington Post headline, "plan to shut military supermarkets shows difficulty of cutting defence spending" brough...

Current media attention is focused on the war the United States started with Iraq a decade ago. I'm reading an interesting book I pick...

Lyndon Johnson had the goods on Richard Nixon. But he couldn't use it. The Democratic Party convention in Chicago was a disaster. John...

Today's County Compass reports a brouhaha resulting from a request by representatives of Cherry Point MCAS to appear before a joint sess...

April 16, 1953. President Dwight David Eisenhower: "The way chosen by the United States [after World War II] was plainly marked by a ...