Alexander Gray is a writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard between 2013 and 2015. His articles for the magazine covered topics related to history, military affairs, and international subjects.
The United States Navy, like its sister services, is first and foremost a war-fighting organization. Its reason for being, boiled down beyond recent recruiting slogans touting it as "a global force for good" or highlighting the Navy's important work in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance,…
Warning against the threat from China has been a staple of national security literature since at least the late 1990s. This genre typically begins by compiling a list of the most alarming statistics related to China’s economic potential, military advancements, and global misdeeds—environmental…
Seventy years distant, World War II has become indelibly etched in the national memory as “the good war.” The rapid passing of the war generation makes it difficult to disentangle the conflict itself from our collective reverence for its sacrifice and achievement. Yet Lynne Olson reminds us that a…