Outside Publications

Foreign Policy I first got to know John McCain when I was a fresh-faced analyst at the recently established Congressional Budget Office and he was a captain in the Navy’s Office of Legislative Affairs. We dealt briefly with each other...

The Hill Shuttling between my home in North Africa, business partners south of the Sahara, and friends in the United States, I’m struck by the disparity in perception of the American president.  In Washington, from both sides of the...

Foreign Policy July 4 was a bad day for Washington’s North Korea policy and not just because of Pyongyang’s successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. There was also a meeting that day in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir...

Defense Acquisition Research Journal Using big data and predictive analytics, more segments of the U.S. military will be able to create decision support tools that help them not only to carry out their missions more efficiently, but also to...

Majalla On June 25, China’s aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, departed Qingdao, the largest city in the Shandong Province and an important naval base on the Yellow Sea, for a training mission. The carrier is accompanied by the destroyers Jinan...

American Greatness I guess that in this day and age, we shouldn’t be surprised that a high school student was able to obtain Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis’s cell phone number and call him up for an interview. But should we...

The Morning Call Last week’s defeat of ISIS (al-Qaida 2.0) at Mosul, Iraq, and the expectation that the insurgent group will soon lose its “capital” of Raqqa, Syria, has led many to wonder what will follow the fall of ISIS. I was...

The Wall Street Journal When the chairman of China’s Dongbei Special Steel Group hanged himself last year, it was clear that something at the firm was going horribly wrong. Next, the company defaulted on nine separate corporate bonds, telling...

The National Interest  Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were scheduled to meet for only about thirty minutes, but they remained closeted together for over two hours today on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, the first...

The Diplomat On Tuesday July 4, North Korean television announced that the country had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) earlier in the day. As per the Wall Street Journal:  The missile, identified as the Hwasong-14, was launched at a...