Bill Corsair, National Review
Vaudevillians, crooners, comics, and a classical violinist all pulled together to put on show for the heroes at forward-fire bases.
Nikolas Gvosdev, National Interest
Americans are never going to be isolationistsbecause U.S. security and prosperity do depend on U.S. interaction with the rest of the world. The question is the degree and depth of that interaction. Against the backdrop of the Trump administration, that renegotiation is taking place.
Steven Katz, Defense One
A 2017 poll found that about half of Americans would support launching an unprovoked war on a country that poses no near-term threat.
Fred Kaplan, New York Review of Books
When Jim Mattis resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018, he was widely lauded and lamented as the last grown-up in the Trump administration. The tributes were commentary more on Trump than on Mattis. For if he had run the Pentagon during a normal presidency, in which grown-ups abound, his tenure would be considered undistinguished, to say the least.
