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To Catch a Cheat: Trusting the Verification Regime in Iran
There’s a scene in the 2004 satirical comedy Team America: World Police where Hans Blix, the then-head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ...
Fiction for the Strategist
Army Strategist Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Bazin recently posted an article on what successful strategists should read. His inclusion of fiction ...
Disarming the Profession of Arms: Why Disarm Servicemembers on Bases?
When you swear the oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States in uniform you give up ...
Death by Treasury: The Challenge of Defense Austerity in Britain
Last week, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, made the surprise announcementthat the Conservative Government would commit to spending 2% ...
200 Years after Waterloo, How will Todays Wars be Remembered?
Can you remember the last time the conclusion of a war was widely celebrated by soldiers, politicians, the press and ...
Why We Dont Need a New War Against ISIS
The question continues to circle from Pennsylvania Avenue to Main Street whether or not America should go to war against ...
The Fight Within Every Veteran and with Those They Love
I left a good part of me in Iraq after my first tour in Iraq in 2003 as a Scout/Sniper ...
Challenge 2016 Candidates on Long-Term Security Policy
On June 2nd, representatives from twenty-four nations gathered in Paris to take stock of the international campaign against ISIS. With the recent ...
Whack-a-Mole Strategy Against ISIS not Working
The evidence would suggest that a high value target (HVT) operation by the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is underway ...
Wheres the Courage of our China Conviction?
China is the foremost security challenge the United States faces in the future. At least that is the conventional wisdom. ...