Prisoner Dilemmas: The American Obsession with POWs and Hostages
Abstract For centuries, the issue of American hostages and POWs has had incredible emotional and political resonance. Driven by...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Prisoner Dilemmas: The American Obsession with POWs and Hostages
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Orbis
Sovereignty and the Foreign Fighter Problem
Abstract Sovereignty is the bedrock of international law. If security requires that the United States transgress sovereign borders to...
Why Foreign Fighters?: Historical Perspectives and Solutions
Abstract Insurgencies that recruit foreign nationals to join rebel groups in various civil wars around the globe are a...
Change and the American Security Paradigm
What do Mexican civil instability and an increasingly well-armed narco-insurgency mean for homeland defense? What lessons about confronting U.S....
Purifying the World: What the New Radical Ideology Stands For
Abstract The past decade has seen the coalescence of a new ideology that envisions social movements in a cataclysmic...
Radical Islam in Europe
Abstract Europe now faces three related but different challenges: how to respond, in a time when “native” European populations...
How the United States Lost the Naval War of 2015
Abstract Years of strategic missteps in oceans policy, naval strategy and a force structure in decline set the stage...
History Rhymes: The German Precedent for Chinese Seapower
Abstract We compare the rise of Chinese seapower today to the rise of Imperial German seapower a century ago....
Editor’s Corner Winter 2010
In These Pages The Winter 2010 issue of Orbis focuses on a number of issues that affect U.S. security...
Review Essay Fall 2009
Descent into Chaos, Ahmed Rashid. Viking, June 2008. 560 pp. Read the full article here....