Geoffrey Roberts, the author of Stalin's Wars, responds to Andrew J. Bacevich's review of the book in the September/October issue of The National Interest.
Geoffrey Roberts treads through morally hazardous territory portraying Stalin as a great statesman.
Unflinching loyalty to the Bush Doctrine leads Robert Kaufman astray in his study of American foreign policy—and Truman, Reagan and Bush do not make a three-of-kind.
Managing the Pentagon and managing wars are two different things, a lesson Robert McNamara learned the hard way.
John Lukacs offers an intimate portrait of one of America's great strategists in George Kennan.
Policy decisions suffer when the rational center remains silent and catchphrases take over the debate.
A review of The J Curve by Ian Bremmer and Winning the Un-War by Charles Peña. Two authors turn their critical, discerning eye on the foibles of U.S. counter-terror and nation-building strategy. Just one offers a constructive course
Radical Islam is its own worst enemy. It will marginalize itself unless the United States overreacts.
"Getting the wind up", is an old British expression for panicking.
Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.