The Marines: Premier Expeditionary Warriors
Writing in the Washington Post this past September, the usually insightful columnist George Will claimed that America’s ongoing messy...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Marines: Premier Expeditionary Warriors
A nation must think before it acts.
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The Space Age That Never Arrived: A Meditation on the 50th Anniversary of Sputnik 1
A Subdued, Almost Embarrassed, Memorial It turns out I was mistaken. Earlier this year I noted that 2007 marks...
The Truth About Syria
Negotiating with Syria, as advocated by so many in the United States–including many members of Congress–can produce nothing positive....
China Rising: Assessing China’s Economic And Military Power
The Chinese Communist Party holds its Seventeenth National Congress this month. That congress and the session of China’s national...
Iraq and the “Metrics” System
The past few weeks have introduced a whirlwind of reporting on the current situation in Iraq. In particular, the...
Can Another “Iraq” Be Prevented?
Will America soon find itself in a counterinsurgency fight in another “Iraq”? There are responsible people who believe that,...
Financial Warfare
The U.S. is increasingly using financial warfare to punish international actors, blocking the overseas bank accounts of North Korean,...
Struggle in the Sandbox: Western Sahara and the “International Community”
The 100,000 square miles of sand in the Western Sahara that until November 1975 were the Spanish territory of...
How Iran Could Help End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
invading Iraq, the U.S. unintentionally threw open the door to the expansion of Iranian influence in the region. With...
Will “Europe” Survive the 21st Century? A Meditation on the 50th Anniversary of the European Community
Part I of II: The Other Age Born in the Year 1957 It has gone down in history as...