Hard facts ought to prevail where American security is concerned. This applies equally whether the issue at hand is the geopolitical consequences of ill-advised defense cuts or the possibility that waste and fraud in military procurement might result in

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

Life for a middle-class kid in the suburbs of the SF Bay Area was pretty good, with wonderful memories. I never bought into the hippie thing. I thought it was simply an excuse to defy authority and, quite frankly, get laid without strings attached -- f

Several stories commemorating the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor included references to the concern held by the architect of the attacks, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, that Japan could never win an all-out war against the United States. Yamamoto had to

LITTLE ROCK One bright Hawaiian Sunday morning 70 years ago last week, hundreds of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor and laid waste to the United States Pacific Fleet. The American people boiled over in righteous fury, and America p

I was ready to have an open mind about this, until I read this line "opposed to war with the U.S. and attacked Pearl Harbor to end the Pacific War as quickly as possible." So, because he was opposed to a war with the US (which he was about to start), he