The Alienated Frontier: Why the United States Can’t Get Osama bin Laden
Abstract Since the Russian-supplied Afghan army overthrew progressive President Daud in 1978, the nation has endured the long Soviet-Afghan...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Alienated Frontier: Why the United States Can’t Get Osama bin Laden
A nation must think before it acts.
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Population, Prophets, Pensions, and Politics
Abstract As immigrant populations in Western welfare states grow at a faster rate than the native populations, whose birthrates...
Command of the Sea with Chinese Characteristics
Abstract As globalization accelerates, U.S. foreign policy makers have become less convinced of the influence geopolitics and power politics...
American Grand Strategy in a World at Risk
Abstract If there is no single long-standing American grand strategy, one nonetheless sees through the course of U.S. history...
Power, Morality, and Foreign Policy
Abstract Despite the vast amounts of rhetoric one hears in the United States on the role of morality in...
Cheap Hawks, Cheap Doves, and the Pursuit of Strategy
Abstract The post-9/11 threats to American security require a complete revision of American national strategy. For too long, presidents...
Global Threats and American Strategies: From Communism in 1955 to Islamism in 2005
Abstract America’s current security threats—the insurgency in Iraq, Islamic terrorism, and Iran’s efforts to obtain nuclear weapons—seem strange and...
Force Size for the Post-Westphalian World
Abstract The quality of the U.S. military has improved steadily since the end of the Cold War, but technological...
A New Concept of the Citizen-Soldier
Abstract The military manpower demands created by U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are causing extraordinary strains on recruitment,...
The Historical Mind and Military Strategy
Abstract As important as the study of history for military strategists is the acquisition of the historical mind—that is,...