China must choose between kowtowing to domestic nationalism and submitting to a peaceful rise. Lately, nationalist belligerence has ruled the day. Washington is overreacting, encircling China. A latent rivalry ratchets up to dangerous levels.
A year after their assessment of Iranian nuclear ambitions, the authors look back. There are still no good options for dealing with Iran.
Conrad Black responds to Robert Tucker and David Hendrickson
India and China's Great Game in the Gulf.
As president, Teddy Roosevelt was not the Bull Moose of his earlier years. His prudence and respect for the balance of power are a model for any future president.
America's war against the Barbary pirates 200 years ago bears similarities--and lessons--for the present war against terrorism.
The real civilian-military gap is between the U.S. military's excessive influence and common sense.
Bridging the gap between military officers and their civilian counterparts will be no easy task. Yet the stakes are too high to comtemplate failure.
The directors of an ambitious project on civil-military relations detail their findings and plumb the divide between soldiers and civilians.
American civil-military relations will remain vexed for some time.