The Military as Peacemakers and Enforcers: Military Operations Other Than War in the 1990s
A quick victory in Iraq validated military professionals’ post-Vietnam War emphasis on warfighting using decisive force. Operation DESERT STORM...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Military as Peacemakers and Enforcers: Military Operations Other Than War in the 1990s
A nation must think before it acts.
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Advances in Medicine During Wars
Besides the well-known technical advances that have occurred during major wars of the past 150 years, each one also...
Advances in Medicine During Wars: A Primer
Besides the well-known technical advances that have occurred during major wars of the past 150 years, each one also...
The Post-Soviet Wars: Part II
The previous article, The Post-Soviet Wars: Part I, advanced a causal explanation for the post-Soviet wars, the wars that...
The Post-Soviet Wars: Part I
Russia’s intervention in Georgia in 2008 and, more recently, in Ukraine awaked many in the West to a category...
Does Democracy Matter? The United States and Global Democracy Support: A Study Guide for the College Classroom
Confidence in the future of democracy has been shaken by the authoritarian resurgence of the past decade, and some...
A Match is Nothing Without a Fuse; A Fuse is Nothing Without a Bomb: Starting Two Wars, 1898-1899
The Spanish-American War is a relatively forgotten war in American history. The most remembered wars—the Revolution, the Civil War,...
Why the United States Went to War in Vietnam
Why did the U.S. go to war in Vietnam? This is a question historians continue to debate. One of...
Why Do Some Nations Prosper? The Case of North and South Korea
Economists have debated for years why it is that some nations prosper while others do not. The Democratic People’s...
A Framework for Ethical Decision Making
In April 2015, the Foreign Policy Research Institute presented its Madeleine and W.W. Keen Butcher History Institute on Ethical...