Washington Politics
It’s time to embrace a ‘less-than-grand’ strategy
The US would get into a lot less trouble abroad if it focused its attention a little bit closer to home.
September 05, 2023
grand strategy
Europe
The 'Great Game': Fiction and folly in world empire
Revisiting Hopkirk's 1995 novel on the Imperial struggle over Central Asia, is today's war in Europe — and perhaps China — that different?
June 19, 2023
North America
The zombification of US national security
Time to drive a stake through the heart of these establishmentarian ideas, which are super dysfunctional but never seem to die.
January 02, 2023
Washington Politics
Why US hegemony is incompatible with a ‘rules-based international order’
A bad argument for invading the Solomon Islands reflects the inherent conflict between America’s dominance and its purported liberal values.
August 29, 2022
Washington Politics
Bad Branding: Another blobby bite at the anti-restraint apple
Unfortunately for establishment critics, the war in Ukraine is making their own case for US primacy less appetizing by the day.
June 04, 2022
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