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2024
12/16/2024 - ARTICLE: A Political Tsunami Strikes Seoul
12/4/2024 - ARTICLE: All Wars Must End - Even In Ukraine
8/7/2024 - ARTICLE: Biden Drops out
8/7/2024 - ARTICLE: And the War Came
7/3/2024 - ARTICLE: Year of Elections Continues
5/23/2024 - ARTICLE: Thucydides or Kennan? How to Approach the China Problem
4/10/2024 - ARTICLE: A Terrorist Attack in Moscow
3/10/2024 - ARTICLE: The Impending Battle for Rafah
2/23/2024 - ARTICLE: The Worst Implications of Trump’s ‘America First’ Isolationism are Coming into Focus
2023
11/24/2023- Train Wreck: The Congress, the Defense Budget, and National Security
11/6/2023- The War in Ukraine - Growing Threats of Escalation
10/12/2023- Negotiations Or “‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war”
9/7/2023 - VIDEO: Mangino Talks…Military Recruiting Crisis
8/25/2023- The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters, Book Review “The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan” by David Kilcullen and Greg Mills
8/2/2023- NATO Summit
7/7/2023- Prigozhin’s Mutiny
6/23/2023- Washington and Beijing- Looking for a Relationship
6/17/2023- Modi is Coming to Town!
5/23/2023- Biden’s Asian Strategy
4/28/2023 - VIDEO: Finnish Institute of International Affairs: US military assistance to Ukraine - The backstory
4/6/2023- Saudi Arabia and Iran Reestablish Diplomatic Relations
3/28/2023 - AUDIO: Leadership Beyond Borders with Kimberli J. Lewis: Leadership Lessons from the War in Ukraine-what can we learn?
3/16/2023 - VIDEO: Savannah Council on World Affairs - “The War in Ukraine: One Year Later and other Challenges”
3/1/2023- Dueling Speeches and the Clash of Western Priorities
2/24/2023 - AUDIO: Ukraine: Interview with Janet Rose VTRN; 1st Anniversary
2/3/2023- Unleash the Leopards (and the Abrams… Eventually)
1/25/2023 - AUDIO: Ukraine: Interview with WBBM Chicago
2021
10/19/2021- Trump has no Idea who Colin Powell Really was
9/20/2021- General Milley’s China debacle, and how Trump revealed the cracks in an antiquated system.
8/18/2021- Afghanistan’s Taliban takeover was predictable. How did Biden miss the red flags?
6/28/2021- General Milley, Critical Race Theory and why GOP’s ‘woke’ Military Concerns miss the Mark
3/4/2021- March 4 Capitol attack rumors highlight dangers of far-right extremism’s military ties
1/9/2021- Trump’s Capitol failings define ‘dereliction of duty’. No wonder Pelosi asked about nuclear codes
2020
12/2/2020- Iran killing embroils Trump and Israel in one final diplomatic mess
11/25/2020- Trump knows America’s wars must end. He doesn’t know how to safely end them
10/25/2020- Trump’s Twitter Promises to Bring US Troops home make Headlines. Has he kept them?
9/6/2020- Trump’s ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’ troop scandal is one final call to action for America
7/11/2020- Trump, Vindman and a military leadership case study that will be taught for years
7/1/2020- Trump’s Russia bounties scandal highlights potential dangers of a blind spot on Putin
6/6/2020- General Mattis’ statement on Trump reveals America’s constitutional crisis
5/27/2020- Trump’s treaty aversion is destroying Cold War safety nets and hastening a superpower crisis
5/5/2020- Kim Jong Un’s appearance put death rumors to rest. But the world was scared for good reason.
4/11/2020- Trump’s Navy Secretary Debacle Is About More Than Modly’s Mistakes or Crozier’s Composure
3/3/2020- U.S. Signs a Peace Deal With the Taliban, but Is the War in Afghanistan Really Ending?
2019
11/19/2019- Trump’s New Pardons Beg the Question: Is the American Military Just a Killing Machine?
7/27/2019- Trump’s Comments About Wiping Afghanistan Off the Map Betray a Deep Misunderstanding of Modern Warfare
5/25/2019- Enemies Foreign and Domestic: Inside the U.S. Military's White Supremacy Problem
3/5/2019- So Much for that Nobel: Trump has Never Understood what Kim Jong Un really Wants
1/17/2019- Trump's Reported Desire to Leave NATO is a Belated Christmas Present for Putin
1997
8/1/1997- NATO and Russian Approaches To Adapting the CFE Treaty
7/1/1997- Arms Control and the Dayton Accords
1987
10/1/1987- Soviet Disruption of Command and Control
1986
Spring 1986- The East German Army—Spearpoint or Weakness?
Spring 1986- Dual Track or Double Paralysis? The Politics of INF
1985
May-September 1985- Soviet Short Range Nuclear Forces and Doctrine
1983
November-December 1983- The SS-20: A Range of Choices
7/4/1983- German Politics and Alliance Unity
1982
Winter 1982- The SS-20: Military and Political Threat?
The Trump Administration and National Security
11/20/2024
Donald Trump enjoyed a decisive victory on election day, and with it comes an opportunity to change the direction of US foreign policy and national security strategy. The challenges the president-elect faces are enormous, and the change he effects will have major implications for the ongoing war in the Middle East, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, tensions in the South China Sea, as well as other issues like civil-military relations, trade and immigration…
I spent 30 years in the military. Trump should be as far away from U.S. armed forces as possible
10/31/2024
In October 1973, four days after President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal, America’s global nuclear alert level was raised to DEFCON III — one step short of imminent nuclear war. That raising of the alert level was ostensibly a response to the then-Soviet Union announcing fresh support for Egypt during the Yom Kippur War, which was then going on…
Death of Nasrallah and Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon
9/29/2024
On 30 September, Israel confirmed that its troops had invaded Lebanon in what Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) called a “limited, localized and targeted” ground operation against Hezbollah – the Shia militant group that has become Israel’s focus in recent weeks. This incursion followed the killing of Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, by the IDF. This has threatened a major escalation in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and risks dramatically altering geopolitics in the region…
