The Marines: 235 Years of Individual Valor and Institutional Adaptation
One of Philadelphia’s often overlooked historical points is that the city is the birthplace of this Nation’s Corps of...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Marines: 235 Years of Individual Valor and Institutional Adaptation
A nation must think before it acts.
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Hamas Divided: Time For A New Policy?
September 2010 marked the beginning of renewed peace negotiations in the Middle East. The American-brokered talks took some time...
Mexico: The Bicentennial and Beyond
September is a special time in Mexico. Billboards from Chihuahua to Chiapas celebrate “mes de la patria,” or the...
Barack W. Obama? The Obama Middle East Strategy in Historical Perspective
I. Silent Adoptions As one of his first acts after taking office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order...
Nine Years After September 11, 2001: Perspective on the First Decade of an Enduring Conflict
As some of you know, I have a very personal connection-intellectually and physically-with the attacks on the United States...
The Mavi Marmara Incident, Rafah, and Egypt’s Steel Wall
The Gaza Strip has represented a potentially strategic threat on both the local and regional levels for the past...
The McChrystal Affair and U.S. Civil-Military Relations
Writing before the 2008 election, Richard Kohn, the eminent historian and student of US civil-military relations, predicted that “the...
Islamist Lawfare: Briefs as Weapons of Mass Disruption
The 2009 Christmas-day bombing attempt on a commercial flight to Detroit was not the first time that terrorists have...
The Question of International Cooperation in the War on Terrorism
The 9/11 attacks generated an unprecedented level of international cooperation and yet the extent to which states collaborate varied...
Indonesia: Obama Must Go There
President Barack Obama has now twice postponed carefully planned trips to Indonesia, a land of his childhood education. Health...