

Distinguished Warfare Medal for Armchair Warriors
American troops may now earn the fourth highest combat medal from the comfort of their desk chair.
American troops may now earn the fourth highest combat medal from the comfort of their desk chair.
“Killing Americans,” my latest for The National Interest, has posted.
The Obama Administration has given us a peek at its legal arguments for targeted killings and they are troubling to say the least.
A 5-year-old Alabama boy is safe after authorities killed his kidnapper.
US military drones are crashing at civilian airports around the world.
President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.
In a posting for New Atlanticist titled “Status Quo Election,” I note the near total absence of foreign affairs from a presidential campaign that’s mercifully coming to an end.
Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.
Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate, but that doesn’t mean the President is any better.
An attack on Iran’s nuclear program would be far more complicated than a one-off attack.
President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.
My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.
From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.
NASA was in need of new telescopes and got a helping hand from their good pals at the DoD.
The first shots have been fired in cyberspace. How will it end?
You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.
My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.
Mitt Romney is making claims about Naval readiness that are, at best, misleading.
The US intelligence community has more information at its disposal than ever. Unfortunately, it can’t efficiently process it and make the necessary connections.
Not surprisingly, most of the Republican candidates for President aren’t too keen on reducing the excessive growth in Executive Branch power.
While unfortunate, the loss of an RQ-170 drone over Iran may not be the intelligence disaster some make it out to be.
Don’t believe the fear mongering about the coming decreases in the growth of defense spending.
I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst
Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.
The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.
A computer virus has infected America’s fleet of Predator and Reaper drones.
Rezwan Ferdaus, an American Muslim, has been charged with a major terrorist plot against his country.
Success in Libya does not make the American mission any less unjustified than it was on the day President Obama announced it.
Honoring the fallen by ensuring that the didn’t die in vain is a recipe for getting more good men killed.
Leon Panetta has been brought in to oversee significant cuts to the U.S. Defense budget. Meanwhile, we’re in six wars.
Our good ally Pakistan has publicly ordered us to leave a base used for “covert” CIA drone attacks.