The Pentagon’s Fighter Jet of the Future Is Causing a Whole Lot of Problems in the Present
Cpl. Francisco J. Diaz Jr./US Marine Corps/Getty The F-35 fighter jet program has long been, as they say in the military, FUBAR. With a price tag that was slated to be $233 billion, the program’s costs have doubled over the past two decades, even as hundreds of jets remain unfit for combat and remain stuck in testing. The so-called…
Don’t Let Anyone Tell Trump How Much His New Intelligence Chief Disagrees With Him
President Donald Trump uses a map to argue that ISIS has been defeated in the Middle East. Pentagon reports have disputed that assessment.Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Years before Donald Trump became president of the United States, he made his hiring preferences well known. “I value loyalty above everything else—more than brains, more than drive, and more than…
Dan Coats’ Deputy Is a Widely-Respected Intelligence Professional. Naturally, Trump Wants Her Out.
Evan Vucci/Associated Press The succession plan for yet another administration appointee went awry last week, after Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence, withdrew his name from consideration. The timing could not have been worse. The Senate, which has to confirm Trump’s eventual nominee, is out…
5 Years Ago, Trump Said an Ebola Doctor Should “Suffer the Consequences!”
Dr. Kent Brantly arrives at Emory University Hospital on August 2, 2014.WSB-TV Atlanta/AP President Donald Trump on Saturday retweeted a message from evangelical leader Franklin Graham celebrating the the recovery of Kent Brantly, a doctor who contracted Ebola five years ago while fighting a devastating outbreak of the disease in Liberia. Brantly—who was working with…
Trump Praises Kim Jong Un’s “Beautiful Vision for His Country”
Dong-A Ilbo/Getty North Korea—a country best known for its systemic human rights violations and unpredictable, authoritarian leaders—fired two short-range missiles on Friday, the South Korean media reported. This latest weapons test, the hermit kingdom’s third in eight days, would typically inspire some element of concern or retaliatory action from the United States, which North Korea…
After 2 Decades, Democrats Still Don’t Agree on When to Leave Afghanistan
Tulsi Gabbard promised during Wednesday’s debate to quickly end the Afghanistan war.Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Two Democratic candidates who served in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq made unambiguous pledges during this week’s debates: They promised to bring home the roughly 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan by the end of their first year in office. Those two…