Jeffrey Record is a prolific defense analyst who served with the State Department in Vietnam. In his new study, The Wrong War, he ascribes the defeat of the United States in the Vietnam war to arrogance, ethnocentrism, a disregard for history, and policies that were contradictory to the point of…
THE HEADLONG RUSH TO BEND the American military to the dictates of gender politics has slowed for the moment. This welcome break is owed to the year- end report of a federal advisory panel chaired by former senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker. The panel, created in response to egregious sexual-…
The tale of Air Force First Lieutenant Kelly Flinn is absorbing for so many different reasons that, oddly enough, people will be tempted to underestimate its importance. After all, the melodrama of a high-flying career laid low by illicit sex is as undeniable as it is distracting. Flinn and her…
"I HAD HOPED THAT WE WERE hurling a wildcat onto the shore, but all we had got was a strandeded whale." Thus, in typically pungent terms, did Winston Churchill assess the Allied landing at Anzio in early 1944, an operation marred by irresolute leadership and lost opportunities.
"I HAD HOPED THAT WE WERE hurling a wildcat onto the shore, but all we had got was a strandeded whale." Thus, in typically pungent terms, did Winston Churchill assess the Allied landing at Anzio in early 1944, an operation marred by irresolute leadership and lost opportunities.
PICKING THROUGH THE DROPPINGS of the Washington Post's campaign on behalf of Bob Woodward's new book The Choice, the strangest tidbit you will find concerns not the first lady's creepy cadre of New Age spiritual advisers but the commander in chief himself. Hillary Clinton may have talked to people…
PICKING THROUGH THE DROPPINGS of the Washington Post's campaign on behalf of Bob Woodward's new book The Choice, the strangest tidbit you will find concerns not the first lady's creepy cadre of New Age spiritual advisers but the commander in chief himself. Hillary Clinton may have talked to people…
WHEN HARRY S TRUMAN announced in June 1950 that he was committing U.S. forces to defend South Korea without prior Congressional approval, he redefined the role of the president as commander in chief. Without fanfare but with implications potentially as significant, Bill Clinton seems determined to…