A just-published article in Foreign Affairs by Defense Secretary Robert Gates provides a snapshot of an emerging irregular-warfare-heavy Pentagon — and interagency process — in the Obama administration.
The article, “A Balanced Strategy,” was written before President-elect Barack Obama announced that Gates would continue at the Defense Dept. It More…
You know whose opinion you should really value when assessing the impending retention of Bob Gates at the Pentagon? Larry Di Rita, the last living Rumsfeld acolyte — seriously, put him in the Smithsonian or something — says that sure, sure, Gates does lots of nice things competently, but More…
Yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld, who forever tried to prevent the U.S. military from bolstering its forces in Iraq or for adopting counterinsurgency strategy there, wrote in The New York Times that, uh…
The New York Times’ Sunday lead editorial is devoted to how the new Obama administration can and should close down Guantanamo Bay shortly after Barack Obama assumes the presidency on Jan. 20.
The Times draws on the detailed recommendations of Human Rights Watch, which More…
One thing I didn’t mention in my just-published piece about Gen. David Petraeus’ talk before the Heritage Foundation today: Donald Rumsfeld was there. And it was awkward.
For starters, Rumsfeld is the most inconvenient figure in the GOP foreign-policy establishment, a modern-day Robert McNamara whose name is synonymous with self-deception, More…
That was the question being asked at a grim congressional hearing this morning, “Sexual Assaults in the Military: Part II.”
Part I gained some notoriety when Dr. Kaye Whitley, director of the Pentagon’s sexual assault prevention and response office, defied a subpoena from the House oversight national security More…
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