War
How Wars Are Fought Again in Memory
A year ago, the Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen published The Sympathizer, a novel set in the Vietnam War and its aftermath. ...
A Double Dose of Reality on Homegrown Terrorism
One assumes the authors did not coordinate the writing of these two books, but they complement each other in remarkable ...
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, ...
The Soldier Who Named it Burkina Faso
In Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary, Ernest Harsch provides a biography of an African leader who must be understood if one is ...
Leaders in Transition
American national security policy is in a time of transition. The wind-down of the war in Iraq and the continued ...
Was Machiavelli Right About Innovation?
“It is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire; and always, when men do it who can, ...