Asia-Pacific
Were the US and China really on the brink of war last October?
Conditions have been primed for conflict for a long time, but things were unusually tense last fall and it wasn't all about Trump.
September 16, 2021
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Middle East
Israel wants more advanced US weapons to counter new sales to UAE
Defense Minister Benny Gantz was in Washington this week asking for an upgrade to maintain Israel's regional military edge.
September 26, 2020
Global Crises
America's forever wars have finally come home
Americans seem rightly offended by their military being used to police their own neighborhoods, but they have also largely stood by as it has waged counterinsurgency in neighborhoods around the world.
June 04, 2020
Washington Politics
The price of power and West Point’s Class of 1986
Mike Pompeo and Mark Esper are as good as their 1986 West Point class motto. When it comes to this country’s wars, neither of them ever quits.
April 13, 2020
Washington Politics
Esper hits a nerve by clinging to old security priorities in unprecedented times
Now is probably not the best time for the Defense Secretary to be tweeting about how nuclear weapons development is the Trump administration's top priority.
April 08, 2020
Global Crises
Absurdity and the Army: The myth of 'readiness' in the corona-age
'Man stands face to face with the irrational. ...The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.' Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1957)
March 28, 2020
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