Over at the National Interest, I dropped an atomic bomb on the Imperial Japanese Navy: Imagine a squadron of U.S. battleships approaching a Japanese battle line. From the bridge of the USS Iowa, spot
We live in such interesting times. As Loomis pointed out, apparently we’re unhappy that the purchase of Greenland is going poorly? The Europeans will write off much of this nonsense as Trump bei
Based on some comments I read last week, it seems that there’s still an appetite here for a general national security/foreign policy roundup. I’m going to make an effort to make an effort
For a fun little project, I wrote up what all of the world’s battlefleets might have looked like in 1950 if World War II had not intervened… he late 1930s promised a renewed era of battles
The latest LGM podcast covers the second half of the conversation that Daniel Bessner and I started last week. We think about what a modern progressive foreign policy might look like, and especially h
In 2017, Mike Trout had 507 plate appearances over 114 games. For the season he hit 33 home runs, and led the league in OBP, SLG, OPS, and OPS+. His WAR (Wins above replacement) for 2017 was 6.6. If M
Apropos of nothing, South Korea has decided that it needs aircraft carriers… South Korea announced its intention to include a medium-sized aircraft carrier in its naval expansion plans. The d
Following up… I know it must be difficult to prevent a prisoner who is absolutely committed to killing himself from following through on that, but c’mon. Jeffrey Epstein, the financier ind