Rosa's articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other newspapers and magazines.
I had an epiphany the other day. I was in the middle o marking up a memo on U.S. drone policy while simultaneously ordering a custom-decorated cake for my daughter's sixth grade musical cast party and planning my remarks for a roundtable on women in national security.
READ MOREIf the United States were a vast psychiatric clinic—and who knows, maybe it is—former defense secretary Robert Gates’s new memoir, Duty, could be marketed as a 600-page Rorschach test.
READ MOREA CIA memoir whose emptiness is something to contemplate.
READ MOREAfter a spate of news stories this summer citing tensions between President Barack Obama and his top military commanders over the possibility of U.S. intervention in Syria, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough hastened to assure the Washington Post that everything was, in fact, copacetic: The president “appreciates” candid military advice “above all else,” McDonough insisted, and has “close, and in some instances warm, relationships with his military chiefs,” as the Post put it.
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