Potential Responses to North Korean Provocations
What sort of response is required to Pyongyang’s ratcheting up of tensions on the Korean Peninsula?
What sort of response is required to Pyongyang’s ratcheting up of tensions on the Korean Peninsula?
North Korea has unveiled to the world a new nuclear processing facility that puts back on the table the question of just what we should, or can, do about the fact that a rogue state possesses nuclear weapons and wants to build more.
NATO-Russia cooperation on missile defense is a welcome step forward.
Conservative Republicans who are typically deferential to the military are ignoring the advice of the military leadership on the new START Treaty.
Theodore Sorensen, a speechwriter and close adviser to President John F. Kennedy, died today at the age of 82
World Politics Review has published a special issue on “NATO’s Identity Crisis” ahead of next month’s Lisbon summit and the unveiling of a new Strategic Concept. I contributed the lead essay, “NATO in an Age of Austerity.”
Venezuela have reached a series of agreement on energy. Should the US be concerned?
If it’s September, it must be time for Mahmoud Ahmadinjad to stand up before the United Nations General Assembly and say something completely insane.
According to a new book from Bob Woorward, American policy in Afghanistan is the result of a decision making process that can only be described as chaotic at best.
Ted Koppel thinks our actions since 9/11 have helped Osama bin Laden fulfill his goals. He couldn’t be more wrong.
Civilian control of the military means, oddly, that civilians control the military. And it means precisely that the military does not get to decide which civilians run the country.
More odd developments inside the modern day version of the Hermit Kingdom
The United States has promised $150 million in aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan. Should we have?
The New York Times is reporting that the Obama Administration has convinced Israel that Iran is much further away from developing nuclear weapons than Tel Aviv fears, but there seems to be something else going on here.
Every new report out of Iran seems to bring us closer to the moment when Israel has decided it’s heard enough. What happens if that day actually happens ?
NATO should resist preemptively declaring cyber attacks “an attack on all” members under Article 5.
If people feel the need to evoke Reagan, it would be nice if they would evoke the real one, rather than an alt reality version.
South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham sees the beginning of the end of the Tea Parties, and he’s probably right.