The smallest and oldest Air Force in U.S. history needs to get bigger and newer, quickly. Without an Air Force capable of responding to multiple crises around the world—and almost every major conflict in history has played out on more than one front—the Obama administration’s new strategy is a recipe for decline. 

Eric Holder claimed that his terrorism strategy has achieved success while remaining true to the Constitution. Despite acknowledging there is a 'war' on terror, Holder and Obama's commitment to civilian trials for terrorists puts American national security at risk.

Information on Operation Phantom Thunder in Iraq.

The conventional wisdom, especially in the US military, is that the IDF erred in several key areas during the Second Lebanon War. The wisdom that has coalesced in America around IDF operations comes from a superficial understanding of the IDF and of its performance in the two conflicts.

These days, billions of dollars is spoken of as pocket change. A by-product of massive government debt burdens and decades of cheap cash from central banks is the notion that, while solvency might be important, liquidity should be easy to find. Particularly for financial institutions, the official state position appears...

Our soldiers in Afghanistan have to deal with enough absurd rules of engagement without having to put up with one that can turn a serious wound into a mortal one. They deserve better — as do our Dustoff crews.

Despite the horrors of combat and the prospect of continued deployments, rates of indiscipline and deep psychological trauma are low in the military, and reenlistment rates historically high. What explains this seeming paradox?

Operation Iraqi Freedom was but one campaign in what we have come to call "The Long War" in the Greater Middle East.