Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I was reading an article from 2007 by an Air Force master sergeant, “We are called Airmen,” only to stumble on these lines: You have to be able to understand what part you play in America's defense. You have...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. There is a famine of peace in the world today. I came across that phrase, “famine of peace,” in an article in the New Yorker that reported on a papal envoy sent to advocate for a truce and diplomacy to...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission. A year ago, I asked whether Joe Biden and Donald Trump were too old to serve as president. Recently, concerns about advanced age and failing health have come to the fore in Congress. Senator Diane Feinstein,...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.In 1998, as an Air Force major, I attended a military history symposium on coalition warfare that discussed the future of NATO. One senior officer present, General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, spoke bluntly in...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.Three days ago, I got a story in my New York Times email feed on “A Turning Point in Military Spending.” The article celebrated the greater willingness of NATO members as well as countries like Japan to spend...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.There's an important point about America’s Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) that people often miss.When the Bush/Cheney administration announced the GWOT after 9/11, I think nearly all Americans assumed that...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.I get email notices for Aether, a professional journal for “strategic airpower & spacepower,” and the lead article on the cover caught my eye:A Tactical Nuclear Mindset: Deterring with Conventional Apples...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author's permission.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running against the Democratic establishment’s position on the Russia-Ukraine War and for the presidential nomination of the party in 2024. He recently gave a peace speech in New...
This image stays with me: The people on the receiving end of American bombs don’t care if those bombs are from a “woke” B-52 or a MAGA one, or whether the crews of those planes are diverse. Is it better to be bombed by female or gay or Black air crews? The comedian...
For various reasons, America’s ruling class has a great love of war, even as America’s non-ruling-classes have a general indifference to it, as long as its destructiveness is kept overseas and out of sight.It's strange indeed that we have such faith in...
