The sanctions chimera
Iran is determined to develop a nuclear weapon, and all evidence suggests that nothing short of force is going to...
Douglas Stone
All carrots, no sticks
Despite claims to the contrary, the use of force by the United States to prevent the mullahs in Teheran from...
Our German problem, and theirs
It's 10 p.m. Do you know where the German Army is? If it’s the few thousand social worker-servicemen in Afghanistan,...
The toothless lion
After more than five years in support of the Coalition in Iraq, the British Army is finally folding its hand....
Pirate outlaws, outlaw state
An almost perfect metaphor for one of the world’s greatest threats came sailing out of the front pages of the...
Our long twilight struggle
Sometimes a problem has no real solution. Sometimes the only option is to accept that plainly and emphatically, as in...
Iraq: right time, right place, right war
It needs to be said: It was smart to go to war in Iraq; it was courageous to go to...
About that NIE…
Difficult, even tragic decisions are fast approaching in dealing with the Iranian nuclear program, as the Mullahocracy continues to enrich...
Ending the free ride
We're hearing a lot about moral hazard these days. Usually it's in connection with the financial markets, where bankers are prone...
Terrorism as career option
Among the greatest underrated factors energizing the tides of history is boredom. Boredom and peer pressure and the love of...
Not a model railroad
The ghost of Amtrak, it seems, can never be fully exorcised. That shadowy remnant of America’s transportation past and the...
Obama’s neo-isolationism
It's one of the ironies of modern "progressivism" that it looks to the past for so many of its policies:...
Carter 2.0
It isn’t too early to project what an Obama Administration might look like, at least in terms of its foreign/national...
Lawfare: bleeping with the enemy
Piracy used to be a one way ticket to the gallows. With the Royal Navy these days, it may be...
Last Commie standing
After a two year sojourn in a wilderness of mansions, yachts and the other miseries of the international billionaire, Silvio Berlusconi...
The past, and the present
There is a saying that the past is a foreign country. Especially in a dynamic society like the United States, the...