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A prototype of China’s new Y-20 strategic airlifter was recently detected by commercial imagery satellites. The discovery affirms Beijing’s interest in developing long-range mobility forces (GeoEye imagery via The Danger…
Friday’s massacre in Connecticut will inevitably re-ignite the debate over guns and school safety. Of course, some believe the debate is already over; for years, the education establishment has argued…
Today’s reading assignments from Mackubin Thomas Owens in the Weekly Standard; Ryan Smith in The Wall Street Journal and Captain Katie Petronio in the Marine Corps Gazette. Not exactly the…
Five months after the murder of four Americans by terrorists in Libya, we still know precious little about the activities of the man who had the ultimate responsibility to protect…
A deceptive image of naval readiness: the carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS George H.W. Bush, USS Enterprise, USS Harry Truman and USS Abraham Lincoln in port at Naval Station…
In case you haven’t noticed, the Iranian nuclear issue has lost a bit of urgency in recent months. Of course, the Obama Administration has long favored negotiation over any suggestion…
Water vapor (circled in red) rises from the Arak nuclear complex in Iran. This recent imagery suggests the plant is nearing operational capability, giving Tehran the “heavy water” option for…
We called it almost eighteen months ago, and it looks like our prediction is coming true. This week, both the Marine Corps and the Army announced an immediate halt to…
It began as a single senator, filibustering against the President’s CIA nominee. By the time it ended, it had become a movement that, according to some, represents the future of…
When Bataan and Corregidor surrendered in the spring of 1942, more than 75,000 Americans were captured by the Japanese. It remains the largest capitulation of U.S. military forces in our…
As we noted in a previous post, North Korea has been busy of late, ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Peninsula. First came Pyongyang’s latest nuclear tests; followed by the…
Spent most of the past week traveling on business, but between planes, driving and appointments, I kept watching developments on the Korean Peninsula. Simply stated, tensions in the region are…
The Arc Light Memorial at Andersen AFB, Guam honors all B-52 crew members who died in Southeast Asia, including those killed in Operation Linebacker II, carried out from 18-29 December…
Over at National Review online, Andrew McCarthy has an superb piece on a bit of fraud being perpetuated on the American people by the Obama Administration. And no, he’s not…
On the way home in my car this afternoon, Sean Hannity took a call from a military member who claims to have been the sensor operator for the Predator drone…
Call it “Spook’s Razor:” Opportunities for timely blogging decrease in proportion to the demands of one’s “real job,” and that decline usually coincides with significant, even earth-shattering events. Put another…
It may go down as one of the worst media decisions since Wall Street rejected David Sarnoff’s appeal for investing in radio back in the 1920s. As one of the…
Remember the closing sequence of Animal House? Just before the final credits rolled, we learned that Hoover became a public defender in Baltimore; Otter established an OB-GYN practice in Beverly…
It’s been quite a month for Lois Lerner. In the span of just a few weeks, she’s gone from being a faceless–but powerful–federal bureaucrat, to the eye of a political…
Today’s reading assignment, from Edward Jay Epstein, writing in The Wall Street Journal. He expounds on points we made in a previous post, examining the “assistance” given to Edward Snowden…