It would be unwise in the extreme to let our horror at Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to permit us to forget the many ways in which the U.S. foreign policy establishment for over 20 years set the stage for what’s happing now.
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The Royal Navy (RN) is sinking below the waves literally and figuratively every year. At the outbreak of war in Iran, the UK could not get a single ship ready to send to the gulf region. It is time to turn off the lease to their nuclear Trident missiles on the...
One of the most persistent myths about war is that it is sometimes inevitable. States are carried along by the impersonal forces of history: the balance of power, alliance commitments, ideological antagonisms, the rise and decline of great powers, et cetera. Leaders...
