A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
National Security
A nation must think before it acts.
National Security
The Mechanics of Empire
Just as it took a few years after World War II for the nature of the Cold War and the ...
Read more »Global Expeditionary Warfare
There are two certainties at this time of writing: (1) our armed forces will maintain a significant presence in Iraq ...
Read more »The Military Lessons of Operation Iraqi Freedom
The initial military phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom has been a stunning success. In just twenty-one days the United States ...
Read more »Form, Function, and U.S. Defense Transformation
As the saying goes, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” A perfect example of this has ...
Read more »The U.S. Military, the Strategic Quartet, and the Global War on Terrorism
One year after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the United States remains involved in its first global war ...
Read more »Re-Mapping U.S. Defense Policy
Even though embroiled in a global war against terrorism, the United States continues to view and conceptualize the world along ...
Read more »The Coming Transformation of the U.S. Military?
The 9/11 attacks reawakened the U.S. to the fact that the world is a hazardous place deserving renewed vigilance and ...
Read more »Geography and the Centers of Taliban Gravity
A month into the war on terrorism, criticism of the Bush administration has begun to mount. Critics on the left ...
Read more »The Question of Humanitarian Intervention: A Conference Report
On 12-13 February 2001, the Foreign Policy Research Institute hosted a major conference on the question of humanitarian intervention and ...
Read more »The Failure of the ABM Treaty
The Bush Administration’s urge to national missile defense has sparked yet another visitation of debate over the 1972 ABM Treaty. ...
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