Truman National Security Project

“First off, I object to this. I’m tired of somebody telling me I don’t care about our soldiers, that we don’t respond.”  Those are the words Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno had for California Representative Duncan Hunter during a recent House Armed Services Committee hearing.  For about a year and a half, Rep. Hunter has [...]

Gas prices have been up, way up.  Standing at the pump over the past few weeks in Virginia and paying between $4 and $4.50 a gallon I couldn’t help but think back to when I started driving and gas prices were under $1.  And I’m not that old—that was mid-1990s. Even as our nation produces [...]

I enlisted in the Army because of the 9/11 attacks. A proud New Yorker and a member of a family that’s fought in every American war since Independence, I followed a civic and familial obligation to service. I went on to earn an Army commission and fight in Afghanistan. In 2008 I was blown up [...]

One very early morning in Atlanta a few years ago, I stood in an airport security line with hundreds of fellow travelers in identical desert camouflage. We had arrived together from Kuwait, having left the front lines in Iraq or Afghanistan mere days before. Approaching the familiar stacks of plastic tubs, conveyer belts and metal detectors, we formed [...]