Let’s imagine that a group of armed Arab-Americans, wearing masks, invaded the Michigan state legislature in the months after 9/11 in protest of threats to their civil liberties. How then would
Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men. This is why it’s important to be careful with missiles, and one of the reasons why the US Navy has always been a bit sketchy about ship-to-shi
I don’t get this. The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to issue a warning that China’s most skilled hackers and spies are working to steal American research in the
Over at the National Interest I wrote a short piece recounting an event that was described in my good friend Iain Ballantyne’s Undersea Warriors: Seven British warships have carried the name War
The Admiralty later realised that it had made a mistake. Val Kilmer will appear in Top Gun: Maverick later this year. Here’s what he’s been up to. Late capitalism has much to answer for, i
My good friend Joe Sonka and the rest of the breaking news team at the Louisville Courier-Journal have won a Pulitzer for their coverage of Matt Bevin’s flurry of pardons in the final days of hi
I contributed a selection on Jean Luc Picard to the War Room’s latest discussion of fictional examples of leadership: Picard’s finest achievement may have been his decision to step away. Picar
The real universe is always one step beyond logic. More delays on the reinstatement of Captain Crozier. Hard to imagine how the Department of the Navy could have handled this situation worse. Also, it