New Emails Show How the Pentagon Delayed a Mattis Aide’s Tell-All Book
Steven Ferdman/Getty On a Tuesday morning in March, Guy Snodgrass emailed his former boss, Defense Secretary James Mattis, to break some news: A tell-all book he had been writing for Random House, containing his “fly-on-the-wall view of Mattis” formed after 17 months working as the former general’s speechwriter, was set to be announced the following…
These 127 Military Construction Projects Will Lose Funding Because of Trump’s Border Wall
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Since President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border in February, we’ve known that the US military would bear the majority of the cost for Trump’s vaunted border wall. Now the Pentagon has figured out which programs will be stripped of their funding, according to a document sent by Defense…
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…
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…