The charade is up. It's now apparent that Nidal Hasan was acting upon the Islamic doctrine of holy war when he carried out mass murder at Fort Hood. But will this fact, like so many others, make any appreciable difference in our future course? Almost a decade has passed since the September 11th ...
The hysteria from U.S. "conservatives" over the White House's decision not to base missile defense systems in the Czech Republic and Poland has been as shrill as it was predictable. The editors of National Review, the flagship publication of the right-liberal half of the establishment, rose ...
The Blackwater affair has all the clichéd elements of Hollywood conspiracy "thrillers": an atrocity cover-up, a right-wing Christian villain at the helm of a powerful corporation, assassinations, and illicit sex. Blackwater (now known as Xe for image reasons) is the world's most ...
Germany’s future lies to its Right. Otto von Bismarck, Germany's prince of diplomacy, once remarked, "With France we shall never have peace; with Russia never the necessity for war, unless Liberal stupidities or dynastic blunders falsify the situation." While all is thankfully quiet ...
The United States and Russia appear to be gearing up for a second round of the Cold War. Washington still hopes to extend its reach deep into Moscow's zone of interests, and the Russians intend to resist. Most of the action will be characterized by espionage and covert operations, but the clash is ...
In 1914, on the very eve of the Great War, G.K. Chesterton published his humorous novel The Flying Inn. The story concerned a Turkish plot to invade England, all with the connivance of Britain's progressive elite. At the superficial level, Chesterton's fears of the Ottoman Empire must have seemed ...
Americans can sleep easier after months of jitters over the decisive issue in U.S. foreign policy. We"ve all been on edge for weeks, but it's time to take a deep breath and relax; a bright new era has dawned. So when you tuck the kids in tonight, rest assured their future is secure. It's ...
As the Obama administration tries to replicate the surge in Afghanistan and expands actions in Pakistan, U.S. strategic planners would do well to read Andrew Bacevich's excellent review of yet another work on counterinsurgency. Bacevich isn"t shy in questioning the entire point of the so-called ...
In U.S.-Russian relations, red buttons don"t evoke pleasant imagery. For the past 50 years, pushing the red button would ensure the bloom of mushroom clouds over Washington, Moscow, and a great many other cities east and west of the iron curtain. Yet only last week Secretary of State ...
