Defense Commentator and Author

Jed Babbin

2 articles 2002

Jed Babbin is a conservative commentator, author, and former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense during the George H.W. Bush administration. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2002, writing on foreign policy and defense topics including Iraq. He has also served as an editor at The American Spectator and authored several books on national security.

When Professors Attack

December 2, 2002 · Jed Babbin, Magazine

LIKE THE POOR, those who hate the military will always be with us. They believe that America is bad, and that a soldier's only value is as an object of ridicule and scorn. The Vietnam era belonged to them and, even after the war ended, their rants went unanswered. Those of us who wore the uniform…