With the Senate confirmation hearing of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) beginning this morning, we’ve invited national security reporter Yochi Dreazen to liveblog the proceedings here in the Editors’ Blog.

Yochi was previously a national security reporter for National Journal and the Wall Street Journal and is a contributing editor at The Atlantic. He is currently working on a book titled “The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in the Era of Endless War,” on how one military family is grappling with post-combat mental health issues. It is scheduled to be published in early 2014 by Crown. Yochi has spent more than five years in-country in Iraq and Afganistan.

Please welcome Yochi. I think you’ll enjoy his insights.

David Kurtz

David Kurtz is Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of Talking Points Memo where he oversees the news operations of TPM and its sister sites.