Back to the Future? Prospects for Russia’s Military Industrial Revival
Vitaly Shlykov, deputy chairman of the Russian Defense Council under President Boris Yeltsin, declared in 2001 that despite the...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Back to the Future? Prospects for Russia’s Military Industrial Revival
A nation must think before it acts.
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Editor’s Column Summer 2002
Practically from the moment President Bush identified the “axis of evil,” the war on terrorism began to encounter complications....
The Promise of Decisive Action
The attacks of September 11 tragically reawakened the United States to the fact that the world is a hazardous...
Finding a Foreign Policy
The events of September 11, 2001, transformed George W. Bush’s presidency and with it American foreign policy. Within weeks,...
The U.S. Army Special Forces Then and Now
The war against the Taliban and international terrorism focused global attention on the U.S. military. In the first months...
Homeland Security Concepts and Strategy
In January 1996 I was reassigned to U.S. Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington. A captain surrounded by colonels and...
Terrorism After the Cold War: Trends and Challenges
Defining the term “terrorism” is probably of little interest to many, who might simply say “I can’t define it...
Intelligence and the War on Terrorism
After the September 11 terrorist strikes, many people wondered, was this an avoidable intelligence failure? The question is critical...
The Roles of Law in the Fight Against Terrorism
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, the Bush administration and political leaders from both parties proclaimed a “war...
The War and the West
The war that began with the terrorist attacks of September 11 has been defined in different ways, and these...