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 […]
H.R. McMaster, are you there? It’s me, the American people. I know we don’t talk much, with US…
Imagine for a minute that your town needs to hire a new fire chief, and after an extensive search, they…
I’m not sure whether the national security community is having a reckoning, a renaissance, or a…
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 […]
CNN recently aired five back-to-back live town halls with candidates vying to serve as the 2020…
Nuclear terrorism is the ultimate boogeyman. It’s like a game of Clue: pick the most powerful weapon,…
The 2020 presidential race is already well underway, and there is no lack of big ideas on the agenda for…
When I tell my friends I’m going to New York for two weeks to write about a meeting at the United…
The national security field has an Expertise problem. Relax, this isn’t a Trump-style attack on…
In foreign policy – to borrow the terminology of Silicon Valley – Donald Trump is a disruptive…
On Wednesday, March 6, the junior senator from Arizona, Martha McSally, revealed that while on active…
Images of the skeletal frames of Notre Dame cathedral, enveloped in billowing smoke and flame, stopped us…