The Immigration Crackdown, or Crack-up?

March 17, 2017 · Immigration, Tim Kane, executive orders

Federal judges who are blocking President's Trump new executive order restricting migration are making a mistake, using flawed reasoning, and setting back the larger cause of immigration reform. On Wednesday night, Derrick K. Watson, the U.S. District Judge in Hawaii, penned a 43-page jeremiad in…

Promethean America

March 4, 2015 · Marie Harf, Tim Kane, ISIS

Can you kill your way to victory? Yes, if you are engaged in a hot war against a conventional enemy. Yes, too, if you face homicidal extremists. Killing them may be the only option. Indeed, death is the essential dimension of warfare. But, in defense of State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf (who…

What Would Marshall Do?

December 17, 2012 · Tim Kane, War, Magazine

What is strategy, after all? The public talks about war as if it were a game of chess or Risk or Sid Meier’s Civilization. But the real meaning of strategy, as opposed to tactics, is the capacity to determine what to do in a world without guidelines, not how to optimize resources toward…