Writings by Topic: Defense and National Security
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| A hawk makes the case for restoring the olive branch |
Arguable |
March 17, 2026 |
| On Christmas night, America's fate hung in the balance |
The Boston Globe |
December 24, 2025 |
| Trump's Ukraine 'peace' plan makes Russia great again |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2025 |
| Did World War I cause World War II? |
Arguable |
November 11, 2025 |
| Dick Cheney's unfashionable virtues |
The Boston Globe |
November 5, 2025 |
| 'War does not solve problems,' declares the pope. He's wrong. |
The Boston Globe |
June 25, 2025 |
| Ukraine the indomitable |
The Boston Globe |
June 8, 2025 |
| The US betrays Ukraine |
The Boston Globe |
March 16, 2025 |
| The empty symbolism of criminal charges against Hamas |
The Boston Globe |
September 8, 2024 |
| Into Kursk: the biter bit |
Arguable |
August 13, 2024 |
| Russia's chemical attacks in Ukraine are another 'red line' |
The Boston Globe |
April 10, 2024 |
| Sanders's foreign policy 'revolution' is a string of leftist clichés |
The Boston Globe |
March 20, 2024 |
| Only Haitians can fix Haiti |
The Boston Globe |
March 13, 2024 |
| No time to go wobbly on Ukraine |
The Boston Globe |
December 17, 2023 |
| An ultimatum for Qatar: Extradite the Hamas leader or face US wrath |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2023 |
| The real reason an 'America First' mindset dominates the Republican base |
The Boston Globe |
October 4, 2023 |
| Victory, not détente, is the right American strategy toward Beijing |
The Boston Globe |
August 27, 2023 |
| It's time to end US military aid to Israel — for both countries' sakes |
The Boston Globe |
August 13, 2023 |
| 'Our least abhorrent choice' |
The Boston Globe |
July 26, 2023 |
| It is long past time for NATO to admit Ukraine |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2023 |
| The Afghanistan withdrawal was a shambles. Why is Biden pretending it wasn't? |
The Boston Globe |
April 12, 2023 |
| Ending Saddam Hussein's reign of terror was the right call |
The Boston Globe |
March 19, 2023 |
| Patton's prayer |
Arguable |
December 6, 2022 |
| For Putin, a self-own for the history books |
The Boston Globe |
May 22, 2022 |
| The Iran nuclear deal may be imploding. Good. |
The Boston Globe |
March 16, 2022 |
| A pistol aimed at NATO's flank |
Arguable |
February 28, 2022 |
| Putin's phony grievance |
The Boston Globe |
February 9, 2022 |
| As Russia gears up to invade Ukraine, the West faces a choice |
The Boston Globe |
December 26, 2021 |
| If China attacks, it must know Taiwan won't fight alone |
The Boston Globe |
October 31, 2021 |
| Women don't register for the draft, and men shouldn't either |
The Boston Globe |
June 20, 2021 |
| Biden's blunder in Afghanistan |
The Boston Globe |
April 21, 2021 |
| For Biden, a better way forward on Taiwan |
The Boston Globe |
February 21, 2021 |
| The Iran nuclear deal is dead. Let it stay that way |
The Boston Globe |
November 25, 2020 |
| Only regime change can end North Korea's nuclear threat |
The Boston Globe |
April 30, 2020 |
| No matter what candidates say, America isn't leaving the Middle East anytime soon |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2020 |
| A bigger NATO has been a better NATO |
The Boston Globe |
May 26, 2019 |
| Trump doesn't care about Montenegro. He should. |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 2018 |
| The world needs a policeman, and there is no alternative to America |
The Boston Globe |
May 16, 2018 |
| Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana |
The Boston Globe |
September 17, 2017 |
| Prevent Korean War II with a regime-change strategy for Pyongyang |
The Boston Globe |
August 16, 2017 |
| Obama's third term |
The Boston Globe |
April 30, 2017 |
| Barack Obama's legacy of failure |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2017 |
| Pearl Harbor's uplifting lesson |
The Boston Globe |
December 18, 2016 |
| Elie Wiesel's love of America |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2016 |
| More firepower than the Marines |
The Boston Globe |
June 26, 2016 |
| A terrible weapon that achieved much good |
The Boston Globe |
May 15, 2016 |
| The Obama doctrine has made the world more dangerous |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2016 |
| Shock and awe over Agrabah |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2015 |
| Another TSA debacle. Is anyone surprised? |
The Boston Globe |
November 11, 2015 |
| US intelligence is no match for Iranian deception |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 2015 |
| The Iran deal bait-and-switch |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2015 |
| It'll take more than tanks to keep Putin from the Baltics |
The Boston Globe |
June 28, 2015 |
| A moral world requires moral violence |
The Boston Globe |
June 25, 2015 |
| Freedom for Iran's hostages should trump any nuclear deal |
The Boston Globe |
June 3, 2015 |
| Patriot Act's most controversial section fades to black |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2015 |
| When US troops left too soon |
The Boston Globe |
May 10, 2015 |
| Does Tehran mean what it says? Oh, yes |
The Boston Globe |
April 19, 2015 |
| Weapons, not blankets, are what Ukraine needs now |
The Boston Globe |
February 4, 2015 |
| The good that results from US 'boots on the ground' |
The Boston Globe |
December 7, 2014 |
| Japan has outgrown its "Peace Constitution" |
The Boston Globe |
May 7, 2014 |
| 'Leading from behind' to a new world disorder |
The Boston Globe |
February 2, 2014 |
| From the Iraqi pullout to the disaster in Syria |
The Boston Globe |
September 15, 2013 |
| Fort Hood's casualties have earned the Purple Heart |
The Boston Globe |
August 14, 2013 |
| Secure the border? That's what the US has done |
The Boston Globe |
May 12, 2013 |
| On North Korea, Kerry muddles the message |
The Boston Globe |
April 21, 2013 |
| On balance, was the Iraq war worth it? |
The Boston Globe |
March 20, 2013 |
| Europe's Hezbollah cowardice |
The Boston Globe |
March 3, 2013 |
| No danger in a nuclear Iran? Seriously? |
The Boston Globe |
July 1, 2012 |
| A nuclear Iran would be the gravest threat |
The Boston Globe |
November 9, 2011 |
| Losing the peace in Iraq? |
The Boston Globe |
October 30, 2011 |
| Liberty's resilience, even after 9/11 |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 2011 |
| The world's best policeman |
The Boston Globe |
June 22, 2011 |
| Finally, justice is done |
boston.com |
May 2, 2011 |
| TSA: One step behind the terrorists |
The Boston Globe |
November 21, 2010 |
| The wake-up call from Flight 253 |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 2009 |
| The question Judge Goldstone won't answer |
boston.com |
November 6, 2009 |
| Afghanistan, Obama, and the loyal opposition |
The Boston Globe |
September 9, 2009 |
| 'Kennedy' once meant 'tax-cutter' |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2009 |
| A tortured debate over the 'torture memos' |
The Boston Globe |
April 22, 2009 |
| Back in the USSR |
The Boston Globe |
August 13, 2008 |
| Missing from that Berlin speech |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 2008 |
| Democrats, the military, and McCain |
The Boston Globe |
July 13, 2008 |
| Answering Alex's mom |
The Boston Globe |
June 25, 2008 |
| General Patton and the campaign of '08 |
The Boston Globe |
March 16, 2008 |
| Through the military, a path to citizenship |
The Boston Globe |
February 13, 2008 |
| The consequences of quitting Iraq |
The Boston Globe |
July 18, 2007 |
| Irreconcilable positions: support troops, oppose war |
The Boston Globe |
February 18, 2007 |
| The message in the Boston bomb scare |
The Boston Globe |
February 4, 2007 |
| The message in the bomb scare |
The Boston Globe |
February 4, 2007 |
| Fighting to win in Iraq |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2006 |
| Anti-military bigotry by the Bay |
The Boston Globe |
November 19, 2006 |
| If we had known then . . . |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 2006 |
| What Israeli security could teach us |
The Boston Globe |
August 23, 2006 |
| Are you a 'chicken hawk?' |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2006 |
| The press, in an unsettling firefight of its own |
The Boston Globe |
June 28, 2006 |
| Phone-record hysteria at the ACLU |
The Boston Globe |
May 28, 2006 |
| The news from Iraq that's not fit to print |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 2005 |
| Death of a Marine |
The Boston Globe |
May 29, 2005 |
| Why NOT torture terrorists? |
The Boston Globe |
March 20, 2005 |
| 'Treat these detainees like dogs' |
The Boston Globe |
March 17, 2005 |
| A tortured silence |
The Boston Globe |
January 30, 2005 |
| It's Kerry's ANTIwar record they resent |
The Boston Globe |
August 2, 2004 |
| Kerry's missing compass |
The Boston Globe |
July 29, 2004 |
| Everyone got it wrong before 9/11 |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 2004 |
| This hasn't been a 'rush to war' |
The Boston Globe |
February 2, 2003 |
| How not to win the war |
The Boston Globe |
January 26, 2003 |
| The dangerous 'one China' myth |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2002 |
| Face the truth about America's Saudi 'friends' |
The Boston Globe |
November 18, 2001 |
| Journalism and the 'neutrality fetish' |
The Boston Globe |
October 28, 2001 |
| We fight now because we didn't fight then |
The Boston Globe |
September 20, 2001 |
| The wrong man to run the State Department |
The Boston Globe |
December 7, 2000 |
| Democratic cynicism on the test-ban treaty |
The Boston Globe |
October 21, 1999 |
| When Fonda spoke out, it wasn't for justice |
The Boston Globe |
June 17, 1999 |
| The Yugoslav War is over, and the West lost |
The Boston Globe |
May 6, 1999 |
| Clinton's shaky plan |
The Boston Globe |
April 8, 1999 |
| With Primakov, it's back to the Cold War |
The Boston Globe |
September 17, 1998 |
| What did India do wrong? |
The Boston Globe |
May 19, 1998 |
| Thank you notes from Saddam |
The Boston Globe |
February 26, 1998 |
| We're left with one option: Get rid of Saddam |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 1998 |
| A revolutionary Christmas tale |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 1997 |
| Lower deficit, bigger government |
The Boston Globe |
October 30, 1997 |
| U.S. ambiguity on Taiwan invites aggression |
The Boston Globe |
March 14, 1996 |
| Recipe for a debacle |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 1995 |
| Enola Gay: Plane and simple |
The Boston Globe |
July 6, 1995 |
| The Smithsonian still doesn't get it |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 1995 |
| Smithsonian drops a bomb in WW2 exhibit |
The Boston Globe |
August 16, 1994 |
| A recipe for calamity in Somalia |
The Boston Globe |
March 31, 1994 |
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