Russia is brazen, Europe weak
The future of Russia's excursion in Georgia remains to be determined. But some conclusions can already be drawn: Russian power...
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A Bear energy market
Along with a rapid military victory in Georgia, Vladimir Putin succeeded with another weapon in Russia's effort to divide and...
Back in the USSR
As Russia continues to exhibit behavior reminiscent of the old Soviet Union — most immediately by apparently lying about its...
Taiwan arms freeze
When President Bush came to power in 2001, his administration had an announced policy to improve the defensive posture of...
Citizen Obama
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's single most illuminating statement in the course of a just-completed overseas tour was his self-description...
Implications of the hostage rescue
Visit the Americas Report Blog at https://themengesproject.blogspot.com and leave your comment Highlighted Story 1: "Implications of the Colombian Hostage Rescue" The liberation of former...
Congress, free the hostage
Wednesday’s daring rescue of the four most prominent hostages long held by the Colombian narco-terror group known as the FARC...
Saving El Salvador
Visit the Americas Report Blog at https://themengesproject.blogspot.com and leave your comments Highlighted Story: "Saving El Salvador" FMLN radicals promise a Chavez-like revolution in El SalvadorStrategically...
Bad deal: all carrots, no sticks
President George W. Bush Thursday formally abandoned the last vestiges of a once-robust policy towards a North Korean regime he...
Resurgence in need of restraint
By Jared Anderson Russia’s gargantuan state-run gas company, Gazprom, has been touted as the driving force behind the country’s economic...
Beginning of the end of an obsolete regime
Visit the Americas Report blog at: https://themengesproject.blogspot.com and leave your comments Highlighted Story: "The Argentinian Crisis: The beginning of the end of an...
Can Kirchner last in Argentina?
Highlighted Story: "Can Mrs. Kirchner Last as President of Argentina?" Word through the grapevine is that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner...
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...
Peace through strength in a globalized world
By Jonathan Altman With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the over 30 year long period of MAD...
Tale of two books
No sensationalism here: a serious-- and highly sourced-- insider's view of the Bush White House and the War on Terror I don’t...
Mexico’s drug war or ours?
With the Democratic primaries coming to an end, the candidates’ experience on crucial matters of national security and foreign affairs...