Author: Jeff Huber

If an intelligence officer brought me a report that read like the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, he’d be picking it out of his next morning’s constitutional.  That NIE was one of the worst...

I made the sound of one jaw dropping Monday when National Security Adviser Steven Hadley said that the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran “suggests that the President has the right strategy.”  On...

“It’s one thing to attack me. It’s another thing to attack somebody like General Petraeus.” — George W. Bush, September 13, 2007 People tell me all the time to lighten up on our senior generals like...

Mr. Bush doesn’t appear to be worried about the effect the Iraq war will have on his legacy.  In fact, he seems downright determined to ensure his Mesopotamia Mistake never makes the transition from current event to...

“Policy is the guiding intelligence and war only the instrument, not vice versa.” — Carl von Clausewitz There ought to be a law of American journalism that says pundits who write and talk about war should have...