President Obama’s commutation of U.S. Army traitor Bradley, aka Chelsea, Manning’s 35-year prison sentence for violating the Espionage Act, among other crimes, raises important spiritual questions.
Mark TooleyJanuary 18, 2017
Former National Security Council staffer Will Inboden, a contributing editor to this journal, has an important critique of historian Jean…
Mark TooleyAugust 17, 2016
According to Sebastian Gorka, ISIL is simply another form of totalitarianism, a political regime seen under Hitler and Nazi Germany that recognizes no limit to its authority and attempts to permeate every aspect of public and private life. Yet, peace with ISIL and other jihad-driven Muslim groups seems much more difficult to attain.
Ryan McDowellJuly 15, 2016
The KRG’s Karim Sinjari insists few Peshmerga fighters have deserted but warns there may be more desertions if Kurdistan cannot pay them.
Mark MeltonApril 15, 2016
Gen. Jim Mattis once insisted: “No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.” Regarding ISIS, we’ve done little to convince them their time is ended.
Alan DowdApril 5, 2016
Donald Trump has denounced the Iraq War as a “horrible mistake,” and “one of the worst decisions in the history…
Mark TooleyFebruary 18, 2016
On Saturday October 3rd, the United States military destroyed a hospital building in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing at least 22 people. Without question, even the accidental destruction of the hospital and the killing of the innocent remains indescribably awful- Was it an act of terror?
Marc LiVeccheOctober 8, 2015
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