Will Terrorists Turn to Poison?
Many analysts consider chemical and biological weapons to be of limited military utility, in part because countermeasures exist to...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Will Terrorists Turn to Poison?
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Orbis
Covert Action Can Be Just
In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower appointed a panel to make recommendations regarding covert political action as an instrument of...
Opening Up Secret Intelligence
From the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947 to the end of the cold war in...
What is Wrong with Plans to Aid the CIS
The sudden and unexpected collapse of communism in East-Central Europe in the fall of 1989 alerted analysts to the...
Arms Control Does Not Control Arms
In 455, the Eastern Roman Emperor Marcian prohibited the export of all weapons, and materials for making weapons, to...
An Agenda for Peace: One Year Later
The passing of an old order does not of itself create a new order. The first-ever Summit meeting of...
Chief of Russia’s General Staff Academy Speaks Out on Moscow’s New Military Doctrine
In May 1992, Military Thought, the main theoretical journal of the Russian Armed Forces, published a draft of Russia’s...
What Albania Adds to the Balkan Stew
On March 22, 1992, the Albanian population went to the polls for its second free election since 1923. In...
U.S. Interests in the New Taiwan
The Asian Pacific rim grows daily in its economic and political importance to the United States. In 1990, the...