How Did the Administration Lose an Aircraft Carrier?

DAVID A. GRAHAM 4:48 PM ET

... Trump .. offers an extreme test of Richard Nixon’s .. Vietnam-era approach of letting enemies think Nixon might really be insane and do anything.

... the hazards .. are on display in the latest American standoff with North Korea ... “When two leaders each habitually bluster and exaggerate, there’s a higher likelihood of making a catastrophic mistake based on a bad guess” ...

On April 9, as tension between the U.S. and North Korea over missile tests rose, the U.S. announced it was dispatching the USS Carl Vinson .. toward the Korean peninsula.