President Trump stood before the UN General Assembly this week and threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea just as a new NPR poll suggested that three-quarters of the population are unaware that he has the sole authority to launch nuclear weapons. It should also come as no surprise that the public is in the dark […]
On Monday, news broke that was so shocking it managed to cut through the constant impeachment cycle and…
“New START is unilateral disarmament,” thundered John Bolton in The Wall Street Journal in September…
Today is the 71st International Human Rights Day, so commemorated for the day the United Nations adopted…
When I tell people that I worked and lived on a submarine, the most common question I get is whether it…
The war against the Islamic State (ISIS) appears to be coming to an end in Iraq. Americans are again talking about winning and starting to think about what comes next. But I can’t help but wonder if this is the same “victory” President Bush famously declared on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln with […]
When I landed in a position that put me in the room with national security experts and presidential…
The professional diplomats who testified before the House impeachment inquiry this month were poles apart…
Recent surveys of potential Democratic nominees ahead of tonight’s debate show that many agree on a…
As Americans turn their attention to the first public hearings in the House impeachment investigation,…
The very real threat of open conflict between the United States and Iran still looms large in the wake of…
I am one of the few Americans who has lived for an extensive period in North Korea – the most isolated…
The NBA blogosphere and the foreign policy intelligentsia are dipping their toes into each other’s…
After Putin and Erdogan reached an agreement on Tuesday to cement their military presence in northeastern…