There will be no return to normalcy or status quo ante.
The United States and its allies can tip the balance between a costly success and a calamity.
The West must do what it takes to help Ukraine prevail.
America has become too accustomed to thinking of its side as stymied, ineffective, or incompetent.
As the leader of NATO and of the free world, the United States needs to think much bigger than it has thus far.
The U.S.-led coalition of liberal-democratic states should pursue three objectives.
Why did so many observers misjudge Putin and Zelensky?
The U.S. must support an insurgency that will cause Russia to regret any attempt to crush democracy and independence.
Some believe Putin has not only Ukraine, but the whole West, exactly where he wants it. A more balanced consideration is in order.
If America succumbs to its internal divisions, to its preoccupation with partisan feuding and its desire to withdraw from international politics, the world order, such as it is, will crumble.
Honor demanded America rescue Afghans who served alongside us and assist those who took chances on their country because we asked.
The United States owes its Afghan allies careful scrutiny of its institutional and personal failures—without recrimination, but also without excuses.
A letter to a civilian who deployed to Afghanistan
There will be no power-sharing, no reconciliation, no peace of the brave.
The machinery of justice should be relentless and thorough.
Americans are equal to this moment.
The Bard had a rich sense of the creeps and criminals, sycophants and slimeballs, weirdos and wing nuts who hang around power.
President-elect Joe Biden should choose a civilian to lead his Department of Defense.
A character study of the 45th president
In these fraught times, I like to seek refuge in the idyllic England of my dreams—one that still exists in The Great British Baking Show.