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How the World Stopped Worrying about Nuclear Disarmament and Forgot ...

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) recognizes only five “nuclear states” – the U.S., UK, France, Russia and China. Since 1967, ...
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Why NATO Intervened in Libya, but Not Syria

The war in Syria continues to grind along with Bashar al Assad still in power in Damascus. The security focus ...
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Simple Rules and Tools for Modern Leadership

A quick browse of the shelves of any academic library, bookstore, or duty-free airport lounge will reveal endless stacks of ...
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America’s Failed Revolution

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, ...
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Intelligence Failures Are Inevitable. Get Over it

The Iraq War marked the first time that secret intelligence was used in the public domain to justify America going ...
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The Secret Speech and Putins Cult of Personality

Nikita Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” of 25 February 1956 marked the full commencement of “de-Stalinization” in which Josef Stalin’s “Cult of the ...
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Dont Build A Berlin Wall in Ukraine

Over Christmas I took a long stroll in the snow along with my wife, a proud West Berliner, through the ...
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State of Disunion: Americas Lack of Strategy is its Own ...

Following last weeks State of the Union address, the headlines were filled with discussions of a gridlocked and ineffectual Congress, ...
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War and Americas Compromisers in Chief

War is uncompromising. Despite modern attempts to predict it, understand it, quantify it, contain it, reduce it, and eliminate it, ...
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National Security Policymakers—No Experience Necessary?

The United States possesses the most capable military in human history accompanied by the largest intelligence community in the world. ...