I had the privilege of meeting General Colin Powell on several occasions, but we were not close associates during my army career. I was just one among hundreds of Army officers who were fortunate to cross his path on occasion. Each intersection was, however, an experience that left me smiling…

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,” quipped Mark Twain. The same can be said about our growing federal debt and increasing federal budget deficits. The truth is that Congress is simply unwilling to do anything to reverse our current fiscal direction. …

Back in July I published a piece titled “The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Is a True Hero.” If you have not previously read it — please do so. Recently new revelations about General Mark Milley’s actions in the last months of the Trump administration have emerged, mostly from the…

September 11, 2001 started for me like any other day. I had been retired from the Army for over four years and was working with Northrop Grumman, one of the major defense contractors and one widely known for its forward thinking and innovative efforts. …

I lost a soldier in Operation Desert Storm to “friendly fire.” It wasn’t the common case for such events. No one mistook my soldier for someone else, put him in the crosshairs and pulled a trigger. He wasn’t someplace he shouldn’t have been. There was, indeed, no human error involved…

Everyone in the United States is upset, disappointed, and disturbed by the images coming out of Kabul following the collapse of the Afghan government and the return to power of the Taliban. But even as efforts to establish some degree of order to a (so far) disorderly exit continue, some…

I was a young army lieutenant on May 1, 1975. I remember it well. We had just started the day with the usual morning formation after which the sergeants took charge to have the troops clean the barracks and perform other routine duties at our base in West Germany. Satisfied…

Since the position was created in 1949, the United States has had twenty officers serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Some, such as the very first chairman, General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, were nationally known heroes with historic wartime service. Others, such as Army General…