Scrooge: The First 1 Percenter
I have no idea whether Charles Dickens, if he were alive today, would have joined the Occupy Wall Street movement. Given the revulsion he expressed when America’s riff-raff had the ...
Air-Sea Battle
Unbeknownst to most Americans, the U.S. military is in the midst of another of its many revolutions in thinking. As we depart Iraq and begin positioning ourselves to exit Afghanistan, ...
Pearl Harbor: A Day of Infamy
Just before 8:00 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, the first of two waves of attacking aircraft swept over Pearl Harbor. Barely 15 minutes later the most powerful battleships of the ...
Scientists Behaving Badly
Global-warming skeptics spend much of their time knocking down the fatuous warmist claim that the science is settled. According to the warmists, this singular piece of settled science is attested ...
America Does Not Pivot
With a considerable amount of fanfare, the Obama administration has spent most of the past two weeks “pivoting” our foreign policy toward Asia. This “pivot” is being broadcast as if ...
Iran: America’s Options
In 2007, America’s intelligence agencies delivered a National Intelligence Estimate to President Bush declaring: “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.” As ...
Back to the Future
The great strategic narrative of our time is about American decline. However, although we are facing some brisk economic headwinds that our political leaders seem clueless in dealing with, I ...
A Day in Zuccotti Park
Last week I found myself in lower Manhattan. With a bit of time to kill, I decided to satisfy my curiosity about the Occupy Wall Street protests (I hesitate to ...
The Machine Is Sputtering
If you think that most of the protesters occupying Wall Street and venues in many other cities are clueless about what it really takes to keep the U.S. or any ...
Will Trade Prevent War with China?
From today’s installment of my “Blood and Treasure” column:
The two economies [the United States and China] are linked with each other and with the rest of the world in a manner unparalleled ...