Soft Power, Hard Results in North Africa
For too many decades, America has sent money, soldiers and drones to the sunburned stretches of the Sahara and...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Soft Power, Hard Results in North Africa
A nation must think before it acts.
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Beware Syrians Bearing Gifts
It should come as no surprise that Syrian President Bashar Assad is adding new conditions to his government’s recent...
The Imperative for an American Strategy for Southeast Asia
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A Salutation To Arms: Asia’s Military Buildup, Its Reasons, and Its Implications
This year, Asian defense spending will surpass that of Europe for the first time in over half a millennium. ...
Israel’s Reshuffled Strategic Deck
In 2012, amid the ongoing ferment of the so-called “Arab Spring,” officials throughout the Israeli government were expressing deep...
To Drone or Not to Drone
That is the question. Whether it’s better to stand idly by in the face of egregious violence or to...
Can the Israeli Center Hold?
The centrist Yesh Atid Party’s capturing of 19 seats in the January 2013 Israeli elections – making it the...
Arms for Peace in Syria?
As the Syrian civil war rages on with no end in sight, many advocates of U.S. intervention are claiming...
What Military Officers Need to Know about Civil-Military Relations
This E-Note is the text from the Ira Eaker Distinguished Lecture on National Security, delivered by Owens at the...
Geopolitics Reborn
Ever since the United States became the world’s only superpower over twenty years ago, there has been a tendency...