We served together twice. He is one of the most remarkable people that I have ever met, and that fact was as clear when he was a Major as it was when he was a Major General. Moreover, I have read many other books about my old comrade, including works...

Post-9/11 experiments along those lines in Iraq and Afghanistan yielded little but disappointment. The American people have lost their stomach for invasions that lead to long-term military occupations, with all that implies in terms of casualties...

Our officer corps doesn't read, and isn't bothered by the fact. $500 in book purchases for each senior leader may have saved the Army thousands of lives lost. Take the example of General George Casey. According to David Cloud and Greg Jaffe's book Four...

Nowhere do we really learn where he fit among his peers, nor how his vision of future challenges played out within the Army. There is no shortage of published material. The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United...

Week Navy Wants More Cost-Cutting from Huntington Ingalls Andrea Shala-Esa, Reuters Federal Government Obama to Propose Combining Agencies to Shrink Federal Government David Nakamura and Ed O'Keefe, The Washington Post National Security 2 Army Brigades to...

You’re the President; you deserve better. You need some people close to you who know a lot more about the outside world. You may wish to think also about how the recent remarks of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey, during an interview with...