Pete Hegseth is trading Army competence for ideological loyalty
I’ve spent my life watching people in power treat human beings like line items on a ledger.
By Alma Cordero ·
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Pete Hegseth is right to purge the Joint Staff traitors
When you’re on the flight line, you don’t want the enemy knowing your fuel state, your payload, or where your blind spots are.
By Grant Colby ·
Dan Driscoll departed, and Donald Trump cleared the decks
Down in the engine room of the American state, another gasket has blown.
By Bram de Vries ·
Trump naming Hung Cao Navy Secretary proves loyalty trumps competence
The nominating process for a cabinet secretary, especially one as critical to global projection as the Navy Secretary, should be an exercise in institutional continuity.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Hegseth imposes his will on Army with Driscoll resignation
There are moments in political history when a steady stream of resignations doesn't signal mere disagreement over policy; it signals institutional rot.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Driscoll's exit proves DoD favors politics over professional advice
The story isn't about a cabinet reshuffle; it’s about the functional erosion of professional military advice by political fiat.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Hegseth is winning the battle over the Pentagon’s future
I was growing up in Newell, Iowa, where the biggest political drama we ever saw involved whether the county could afford to fix the potholes on Main Street before harvest.
By Ruth Behrens ·
Delcy Rodríguez's 25-year deal confirms American extraction interests
The moment a great power decides that global resources are merely commodities to be negotiated away from the sovereign state, it ceases to be diplomacy and becomes simple extraction.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Trump Will Make South Korea Pay for His Iran Humiliation
The architecture of international security is built on commitments, not charisma.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Trump says US scaling back joint military operations with South Korea
The moment Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to "substantially reduce" joint US military drills with South Korea, he did more than just cancel an exercise; he performed a piece of…
By Sophie Naimi ·
Democratic senators demand answers about conditions aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
You read about the USS Abraham Lincoln, and you are not meant to feel the Atlantic spray or hear the thrum of an aircraft catapult. You are meant to feel the cold dread of institutional failure.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The spectacle of President Trump in Ankara is pure theater
The spectacle, if you can call it that, was less a display of American strength and more a masterclass in orchestrated invisibility.
By Alma Cordero ·
Hegseth's spending ignores American grids and water systems failure
The number itself should trigger an alarm bell loud enough to rattle the windowpanes of every corporate lobbyist and think tank: $1.5 trillion.
By Imani Sutton ·
Pentagon strips Kendall and Milley clearances to enforce silence
The American government has always treated classified information like a sacred cow—something that can only be touched by the anointed few.
By Grant Colby ·
Despite Pentagon spin, CSIS shows advanced weaponry is dangerously low
The most dangerous thing in Washington isn't the missile itself; it’s the narrative surrounding its depletion.
By Imani Sutton ·
Patriots depleted: Ukraine use outstrips Pentagon capacity
The most enduring feature of geopolitical conflict—whether in the South China Sea or over Kyiv—is not the grand strategic narrative spun by Washington’s talking heads, but the…
By Nikhil Raghavan ·