Publications

Abstract Turkey’s recent history has placed it at odds with Europe and the United States, leading some to suggest that Ankara has become an unreliable ally. Such a view is short-sighted. Turkey remains geostrategically important for a variety of...

Abstract India continues to build its material capabilities but there is rising concern about its ability to direct these toward the service of a grand strategy. India’s history highlights that a crucial requirement for developing a grand strategy is...

Abstract The fast-moving events of Syria and Iraq in 2014 demonstrated the enormous risk to U.S. security interests when America and its allies have too little intelligence presence or operational agility in an area rife with insurgency and terrorist...

The primary lesson of the Vietnam War is that there are no lessons of the Vietnam War, at least when it comes to things we can learn that are unique to that conflict. War has an unchanging nature but...

Abstract Clearly, something has gone wrong with the U.S. Asian policy that has now been in place for more than forty years. Today, China possesses military and economic power undreamed of in the 1970s. And it has embarked on...

Furious Republican opposition to a deal over Iran’s nuclear program may look like another example of political partisanship and personal animosity toward Barack Obama. But there’s also a much deeper reason for congressional pushback: the deeply ingrained aversion in...

NEW HAVEN: Europeans have control over their own fate, yet at no point since the end of the Cold War has their collective fate seemed so precarious. The threats are diverse as the continent’s political institutions and way of...

The bombing of two mosques in Sanaa, which killed close to 140 people and injured 350, represents another stage in Yemen’s spiralling violence. But the significance of the bombing, which was claimed by Islamic State (IS) militants, goes beyond...

“The important measure is not the targets destroyed but rather the effect on the enemy’s capabilities and actions.” -David A. Deptula, USAF “I have destroyed him with the weapons I abhorred, and they are his.  We have crossed each...

Israelis who handed Benjamin Netanyahu a smashing electoral success had a message for the pollsters and pundits who predicted a Labor victory: “gotcha again.” Notorious for its propensity to lie to pollsters, even in exit polls, the Israeli electorate...