War
Is Religion Inherently Violent?
Upon hearing that Stalin trained as a priest in his youth before going on to oversee the death of more ...
Does Transnistria Matter? To Russia, It May
Mention Transnistria and most people will look at you sideways. It is a funny word, the name of this place ...
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 ...
Vladimir Putin is No Mystery
There are many theories put forward as to the goals, intentions, and motivations of Vladimir Putin, yet he remains a ...
Is there a Place for Total War in the Modern ...
The way America has waged war in the post-9/11 era is controversial. Conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere evolved into ...
Can Corruption Lose Wars?
In the closing years of the Vietnam war, I traveled to a province on the Cambodian border where I heard ...
Is the Marine Corps Setting Women Up to Fail in ...
Two years ago, then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta made the historic decision to eliminate the military’s exclusionary policy that kept ...
When Allying with Evil Makes Sense
Muttering about the importance of never compromising, Rorschach leaves the Antarctic palace, intent on telling the world of how Ozymandias ...
Fool Me Twice, Shame on Minsk
What is our red line in Ukraine? I can’t seem to find any mention of one in any of the ...
Fool Me Twice, Shame on Minsk
What is our red line in Ukraine? I can’t seem to find any mention of one in any of the ...