Political Issues

Barry McCaffrey, retired U.S. army four-star general and former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy: “The Covid-19 pandemic is a disaster in the United States, with a fearsome impact on our 2.3 million prisoners. The pandemic will clearly inflame the prisons of the migratory nations of Honduras, Guatemala and El…

It is very difficult for me to objectively and unemotionally write about Trump’s impact on US national security. He is clearly one of the most troubling threats to American security that I have encountered in my lifetime. Trump is also the legitimately elected President of the US under the rules of our Constitution. He still has…

There is a terrific David Ignatius OP ED in the Washington Post (13 May 2020) reference this new work “THE KILL CHAIN” by Chris Brose.  This book has also generated a flurry of supportive commentary by defense intellectuals whose opinion I value to include Dave Petraeus. Chris Brose is a highly respected and knowledgeable expert on…