J.E. McCollough

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte

Let’s face it. There are no good choices for the U.S. in Syria, at least none that reduce the violence in the short term.

Senator John …

We are now over a month into sequestration, the across-the-board budget cuts mandated by Congress when it and the White House failed to reach a budget agreement.

The predictions for what would happen should sequestration go …

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.

— Thucydides

It’s still unclear how history will judge the U.S. …

The question isn’t should women be in combat — it’s how.

As a male combat veteran of two tours in Iraq with infantry units, the view from here is that women should have their own, separate, combat units.

I fully …