Pen and Sword

There are days when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates makes you glad there's a guy in that office who's at least trying to keep Dic...

The Bush administration and its stepchild John McCain have opted for a bold new strategy to counter the overwhelming success of Barack Obama...

event horizon: the boundary of a black hole beyond which nothing can escape from within it -- Merriam-Webster Online After five years and ch...

Barack Obama scored major national security marks with his July 14 New York Times editorial "My Plan for Iraq" and his speech in...

"As this law [of extremes] begins to lose its force and as this determination wanes, the political aim will reassert itself." --Ca...

I was heartened last February when the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Pubic Affairs announced the formation of the National W...

I have known and served with many military intelligence officers. A handful of them were brilliant. The preponderance of them validated th...

Back in a day not too long ago, Bob Schieffer was one of two remaining television journalists with a hint of spine (the other being Keith Ol...

In apparent response to Defense Secretary Robert Gates's complaint that the Air Force isn't providing Central Command with enough un...

There may be such a thing as absolute truth, but evil is, without question, a relative commodity, especially when it comes to elections. I ...