Survival strategy
Middle Eastern Islam, Darwin and terrorism
As the Christmas holiday approached, it was time to talk about terrorism. I spent part of a December afternoon in a sterile conference room symbolic of …
Read more ›As the Christmas holiday approached, it was time to talk about terrorism. I spent part of a December afternoon in a sterile conference room symbolic of …
Read more ›Doctor: “Where does it hurt?”
Patient: “It only hurts when I do this.
“Doctor: “So, stop doing that.”
It’s an old joke, but sound medical advice, particularly for our present patient, the …
Read more ›I wish to rebut the statement made by Loren Thompson in “Finesse trumps firepower” in the December issue. Mr. Thompson asserted that “America still suffered the greatest military defeat in its history. …
Read more ›In December’s cover story, “The sun also rises,” AFJ examined the transformation of the U.S.-Japan alliance in the post-Cold War world. This month, MIT Professor …
Read more ›In a mid-December commentary, Commerce Department Undersecretary David McCormick announced that his department would soon publish guidelines to govern which foreign …
Read more ›Tom Donnelly’s editorial “The ‘who’ question” in the December issue leaves me with more questions than answers. The thrust of the article is that the Bush administration has been focusing on the …
Read more ›This is the first installment in a regular series on the blogs — personal Web logs — maintained by U.S. servicemen and women …
Read more ›In what we are still prone to call the “post-Cold War period,” Americans continue to have a difficult time sorting their way through first-order strategic questions. At the same time, there is …
Read more ›For the 18,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the appearance of victory could be a recipe for defeat. American commanders in Afghanistan …
Read more ›The biggest mission creep the Regular Army faces is its continued existence.
Now that the Cold War is over, we have no more possessions to guard in China and the Philippines, and …
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