Only if the U.S. tries putting missiles or a Navy base on the island. I’ve never wanted to be a war correspondent. The closest I ever came was working as a reporter for Business Week based in Hong Kong during the mid ’90s, when I was dispatched by the magazine to...
The colossal $40 billion Ukraine military aid package passed by Congress is not all for weapons. Still, even $17 billion buys a hell of a lot of destructive and deadly weaponry.
We can’t rely on luck anymore. It has become commonplace for presidents, and presidential candidates on the stump, especially since 9-11 two decades ago, to declare solemnly that their “number one responsibility” as president is “to keep Americans safe.” Now I grant...
For the fourth Year in a Row, the Pentagon Failed a $200-Million Audit of its $780-Billion Budget and $3-Trillion Balance Sheet One of the biggest blacked-out stories of 2021 surely has to be the news, on November 16, that the Pentagon once again had abysmally failed...
We still don’t know the story of what happened and why. On the evening of September 10, 2001, New York police officer Adam Hernandez was on patrol in his Greenwich Village precinct when he saw a man smashing car windows with a hammer. It was a random act of violence...
Building more atomic bomb triggers is the ‘pits.’ The Biden administration, in its proposed military budget, is calling for a restart of something the U.S. arms industry has not produced in any significant quantity since 1992: nuclear “pits” — the spherical...
