Growing Foreign Threats to the U.S.
The American people are accustomed to believing their country is so strong, it could never be taken over by another country. Yet, a series of policy mistakes and a weakness … Read More
Category: Security Issues
These are the world-shaking issues of war and peace’
Whatever Happened to the Rules-Based World Order?
During the twentieth century, World War II was one of those historical events —- like the Black Plague in the Middle Ages — that seemed to come close to destroying … Read More
American Manichaeism
For a very long time, American foreign policy has wrestled with the conflict between our ideals and a realistic response toward our adversaries. This is the problem of American Manichaeism. … Read More
What Can the Democrats Do About Joe Biden?
President Joe Biden has become a major liability for the Democratic Party. Or rather, since it seems probable that Biden is merely a manipulated puppet, perhaps other members of his … Read More
Why Has the U.S. Lost Almost All Major Wars Since World War II?
But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory, … Read More
Is China’s Imperialist Threat to the West Growing or Weakening?
NOTE: This post was updated on April 16, 2020. The explosion of the COVID-19 coronavirus on the international scene emphasizes yet again that China has no intention of merely coexisting … Read More
The U.S. Southern Border: A Crisis Democrats Dare Not Acknowledge
President Trump is driven by frustration at the crisis on our southern border. As a last gasp endeavor, he threatened Mexico with high and accelerating import tariffs. Should Mexico not … Read More
Trade War and Cold War With China
The much feared trade war with China is the least of the problems we have with that great nation. The People’s Republic of China appears to be hardwired to seek … Read More
What Comes Next With Iran After the JCPOA?
President Trump announcing the U.S. pullout from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on May 8, 2018. YouTube / CBC News Now that President Donald Trump has decided to … Read More
Taming Putin’s Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin talking to Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in May 2001. In the center between them is another Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman. Wikimedia Commons / Kremlin.ru Russia represents … Read More
The Structure of Social Revolutions
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), a romantic representation of the French Revolution of 1830. Wikimedia Commons / Louvre Museum All around us across the entire planet, human … Read More
The Iran Nuclear Agreement is Unfixable
Iranian Emad IRBM at launch Photo Credit: Wikimedia commons/Tasnimnews/Mohammad Agah Much has been said recently about President Trump’s decertification of Iran’s compliance to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the JCPOA. … Read More
What Democrats Are Ignoring About Russia
Vladimir Putin, President (for life?) of the Russian Federation DailyPnut.com While Democrats continue to obsess over imaginary connections between Donald Trump and the Russian Federation, they seem to pay little … Read More
Past US Weakness Creates Heightened Tensions With China and North Korea
Launch of a North Korean Taepodong 2 ICBM MissileThreat.csis.org Just this Tuesday, China’s minion North Korea claimed to have made its first fully successful test launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic … Read More
U.S. Railgun Systems Proliferate
Railgun projectile bursting through a metal plate in a Navy test system. The projectile is the dark metal bar in the center-right of the image. Image courtesy of the Office … Read More
How Should the U.S. React to Foreign Challenges?
Aspects of U.S. Foreign Relations Top (Left to Right): U.S. Army soldiers in Ramadi, August 2006 Wikimedia Commons / Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock Container ship from … Read More
The U.S. Interactions With Other Nations
United Nations Headquarters in New York City Wikimedia Commons / Neptuul Very little divides American citizens more than questions about how the U.S. should interact with other nations. This has always … Read More
U.S. Detente With Russia?
Secretary of State Designate Rex Tillerson, then ExxonMobil CEO, with President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation on April 16, 2012 Wikimedia Commons / premier.gov.ru The Democratic Party has found … Read More
A Nervous Face-off Against Chinese Imperialism
Naval vessel of the the People’s Liberation Army Navy. Center for Security Policy In the United States over the past eight years, China has found its perfect enemy, more concerned … Read More
Iran Stretches Its Offensive Cyber Muscles
The flags of bitter enemies: Iran left, Saudi Arabia right Wikimedia Commons Sometime in the middle of this last November, someone, almost certainly the Islamic Republic of Iran, conducted destructive … Read More
The Ruins of Obama’s Catastrophic Foreign Policy
President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru No American president in my lifetime has had a foreign policy that … Read More
Clinton and Trump on Foreign Policy
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take the stage at the third and final Presidential debate. The differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on foreign policy appear to be more … Read More
Russia Stable in the Short Term; The Long Term Is Something Else
Russia and its western “Near Abroad” Map courtesy of Google Maps Russia is becoming a major danger to the rest of the world on a par with ISIS because of their “Russian … Read More
Is the U.S. Becoming a Banana Republic?
Screen Shot of James Comey swearing-in at House Judiciary Committee meeting on why he did not recommend seeking an indictment for Hillary Clinton on July 7, 2016. James Comey has sullied … Read More
Is Putin Secure?
The headquarters for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) at Lubyanka Square in Moscow in the same building that used to be the HQ of the KGB. Wikimedia Commons/NVO There … Read More
Iran: Existential Enemy of the West (among others)
On top, Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on January 23, 2016. On bottom, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meeting with Russian President Vladimir … Read More
Is Russia Stable?
Moscow Victory Day Parade, 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru Russia is having increasingly difficult economic problems, as was discussed in my last post. A large part of the reason for that can … Read More
Putin’s Purges
Der Russische Führer, Vladimir Putin Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru ANDERS ÅSLUND has become an indispensable analyst of that “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”, as Sir Winston Churchill … Read More
Probability of War with China Increasing?
People’s Liberation Army Navy sailors at the Qingdao, North Sea Fleet headquarters parading in 2000 for a visiting U.S. Navy delegation. Wikimedia Commons/Jiang The probability of war with the People’s … Read More