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Since the emergence of the modern nation-state and the slow, steady disappearance of its competitors, questions of influence and primacy have preoccupied international politics....
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Since the emergence of the modern nation-state and the slow, steady disappearance of its competitors, questions of influence and primacy have preoccupied international politics....
America Should Stay Out of the Looming Syria Quagmire: The regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has fallen. Assad was a loathsome dictator with...
America Should Strike a Deal to Take Over Russia’s Syria Tartus Naval Base: The 53-year rule of the Assad family is over. Assad has...
The Lesson Other Countries Must Take from Assad’s Collapse: After more than 13 years of civil war, the final offensive and collapse of the...
Key Points: The Syrian army has collapsed, echoing the dramatic falls of the Afghan and South Vietnamese armies. Years of reliance on proxy forces,...
Imperial Japan guessed poorly at Pearl Harbor. It misjudged the impact of its actions on a peacetime strategic competitor, made a foe of that...
Donald Trump’s Poisoned Economic Chalice: Today’s solid employment report, together with a stock market setting records day after day, seems to confirm the conventional...
When Russia struck Ukraine with a nuclear-capable intermediate range ballistic missile, armed with multiple conventional independent re-entry vehicles, it was a clear instance of...
Who’s up next for the toughest job in the world? Secretary of Defense is probably the single most difficult job in the US government,...
South Korean Democracy Just Survived a Stress Test: Late Monday night, South Korean President Yoon Seok-Yeol declared martial law. That requires validation by the...