Jamie Mcintyre

When dawn broke on the morning of Jan. 3, there was no Venezuelan more ecstatic over the capture of the country’s former dictator, Nicolas Maduro, by U.S. Delta Force commandos than María Corina Machado, the wildly popular opposition leader who spent the ... See more

When we watch a movie, our instinct is to root for the good guys when they kill the bad guys, even if they color outside the lines. Take, for instance, the 2009 movie Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt leading a team of Nazi-hunters in occupied Fran... See more

Some battles are eternal. In the eight-decade history of the Pentagon, there has not been a single defense secretary who has not vowed to vanquish the inefficiencies of a hidebound procurement bureaucracy that has consistently delivered weapons that are t... See more

The new Netflix movie A House of Dynamite, a fictional imagining of a 20-minute window between the launch of an ICBM and its effect on Chicago, was meant to be a conversation starter. And on that score, it landed a direct hit. Upon its release two months ... See more

To the trained eye, the massive military buildup in the waters off Venezuela suggests something much more menacing than a counter-narcotics operation. And of all the pairs of eyes trained on that patch of the Caribbean Sea, none has a sharper vision of wh... See more