Marc JohnsonSep 6, 20194 minHow Quickly Things Go To Hell…In spare, yet elegant language Winston Churchill, determined to tell his story of the second Great War in his lifetime, wrote about this w...
Marc JohnsonSep 6, 20194 minHow Quickly Things Go To Hell…In spare, yet elegant language Winston Churchill, determined to tell his story of the second Great War in his lifetime, wrote about this w...
Marc JohnsonJul 3, 20165 minStop, Think and Ask “What If…”According to the Financial Times, Michael Gove, a champion of Britain’s exit from the European Union and now a candidate for prime minist...
Marc JohnsonJul 3, 20165 minStop, Think and Ask “What If…”According to the Financial Times, Michael Gove, a champion of Britain’s exit from the European Union and now a candidate for prime minist...
Marc JohnsonNov 21, 20157 minFear Itself…Obama’s response to the attacks also raises a more political question: Why hasn’t a man known for his rhetorical gifts done more to addre...
Marc JohnsonNov 21, 20157 minFear Itself…Obama’s response to the attacks also raises a more political question: Why hasn’t a man known for his rhetorical gifts done more to addre...
Marc JohnsonApr 6, 20155 minJust Say No…By all accounts Barack Obama has his work cut out for him convincing Congressional Republicans – and some Democrats – that his proposed R...
Marc JohnsonApr 6, 20155 minJust Say No…By all accounts Barack Obama has his work cut out for him convincing Congressional Republicans – and some Democrats – that his proposed R...
Marc JohnsonJun 5, 20145 minJust the BeginningGall bladder surgery in the 1960’s was a far different operation than it has become more recently and often resulted in several days in t...
Marc JohnsonOct 23, 20137 minHigh Popalorum, Low PopahirumOne of my Long favorites: “The Democratic Party and the Republican Party were just like the old patent medicine drummer that used to come...
Marc JohnsonMar 12, 20132 minGraveyard of EmpiresYoung Winston wrote from the British cavalry barracks in Bangalore where he was stationed as part of his deployment to the part of the wo...
Marc JohnsonJan 12, 20134 minWar and CongressThe FBI followed him, particularly after he criticized Roosevelt’s foreign policy prior to American entry into World War II. His patrioti...
Marc JohnsonMay 2, 20124 minObama the WarriorOne of the great strategies in politics is to take your opponent’s greatest strength and turn that advantage into a liability. It’s not ...
Marc JohnsonSep 12, 20113 minReflectionsAmid the tenth anniversary reflections over the terror attacks on New York and Washington there is much to ponder, remember and regret, i...
Marc JohnsonOct 24, 20105 minObama’s WarsIn May of this year, as Woodward tells it, months after the President’s national security team had coalesced around the current Afghanist...
Marc JohnsonJun 24, 20103 minFiring GeneralsWhen I first heard about and then read Gen. Stanley McCrystal’s comments about President Obama and some of his top advisers, I thought of...
Marc JohnsonJun 24, 20103 minFiring GeneralsWhen I first heard about and then read Gen. Stanley McCrystal’s comments about President Obama and some of his top advisers, I thought of...
Marc JohnsonDec 3, 20095 minObama’s WarI have a clear memory of an old basketball coach from high school who preached a simple strategy. Coach would say when someone was trying...
Marc JohnsonNov 30, 20093 minWinston’s BirthdaySir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on this day in 1874. The world has not been the same since. In any one of a half dozen fie...
Marc JohnsonOct 27, 20094 minDithering or a Strategy?Within the stark building that houses the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa – perhaps the most anti-war war museum I’ve ever visited – is a r...