Jerry Mark Silverman

Jerry Mark Silverman has a PhD in international relations-government and, as a Ford Foundation Project Specialist was involuntarily transferred from Saigon to Bangkok just days before the arrival of North Vietnamese forces in April 1975. He is also author of the 1975 article "The Domino Theory: Alternatives to a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" published that same year in Asian Survey.


Commentary

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Sturdy Dominos

| 11.19.09

Withdrawing from Afghanistan won’t cause all of central Asia to turn Islamist.

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A False Awakening

| 11.03.09

Afghanistan is not Iraq. Cutting deals with “the tribes” will backfire.

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The Folly of Nation Building

| 10.05.09

The United States doesn’t really know how to build nations anywhere, even when security conditions are relatively good. How can we expect to succeed in Afghanistan?

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The Old, New Thing for Iraq

| 02.27.07

Britain’s “anti-surge” demonstrates its well-founded skepticism of President Bush’s “new” plan for Iraq. The plan contains some tried, and failed, economic and political strategies that are unlikely to achieve better results this time.

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Winning by Losing in Vietnam

| 11.21.06

Despite Bush’s assessment, the real lesson of Vietnam was that a tactical defeat can become a strategic victory.

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February 13, 2012