The Big Squeeze: Beijing’s Anaconda Strategy to Force Taiwan to Surrender
Much overlooked in continuing discussions about arms sales and what kind of strategy Taiwan should employ to counter an...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Big Squeeze: Beijing’s Anaconda Strategy to Force Taiwan to Surrender
A nation must think before it acts.
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The FISA Court’s Essential Purpose
Although memories fade, there are still those of us who remember the remarkable congressional hearings in the 1970s revealing...
The Brewing Battle over U.S. Troop Presence in Syria
The U.S. presently maintains a force of some 2,000 troops located mostly in the northeast of Syria. These units...
U.S.-Canadian Environmental Diplomacy in the 1920s
When farmer J.H. Stroh lodged an official complaint on behalf of his orchard farm in Stevens County, Washington, in...
How China Dictates the Rules of the Game
Recently, news coverage of Asia has focused on Donald Trump’s trade war against the People’s Republic of China (PRC)....
Presenting the Modern World for the American Public: Maps and Public Education in World War II
Students of geopolitics know that maps are an essential tool for understanding global conflicts. They have also become an...
The Carter Page FISA Applications: Much Risk to FISA, Little New Insight, But a Rebuff to the Nunes Narrative
For the first time since the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978, the Unites States...
All Politics Is Local, In North Korea Too
North Korea is involved in an international process, negotiating with both South Korea and the United States. This poses...
Three Percent, Two or Four Percent, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
President Donald Trump’s recent journey to a NATO summit in Brussels and to a summit with Vladimir Putin in...
Fact and Denial: Trump’s Inexplicable Refutation of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Conclusion of Russian Election Interference
A surreal scene unfolded in Helsinki on July 16, 2018, when an American president, standing side-by-side with the autocratic...