Pen and Sword

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld created the Office of Strategic Influence shortly after the 9/11 attacks to bolster support for the Bush ...

It turns out that James “Spider” Marks, retired Army general and military analyst, was pushing the Bush administration’s war propaganda on C...

Predicting what might happen in a shooting match with Iran is a perilous errand. The Clausewitzean concepts of fog and friction apply to mo...

You can rest easy. Political pundit and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan predicted on Sunday that there is a "fifty-fifty c...

“I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” – from the U.S. military office...

Back in the good old days when global nuclear annihilation was a real and present danger and not just something Dick Cheney talked about to ...

by Jeff Huber I have to say it again: If the Bush administration put a fraction of the effort it spends on spinning its wars into winning th...

I’ve said more than once that America’s most profound strategic casualty in the woebegone war on terror has been its information environment...

It was mighty Christian of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr to tell his Mahdi Army to stop fighting in Basra . I’m afraid I would have ...

“The United States is a nation engaged in what will be a long war.” – Quadrennial Defense Review Report (February 6, 2006) “No nation has e...