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In a piece in The Wall Street Journal published on March 4, 2022 by Tunku Varadarajan,…
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When I went to Columbia University for my PhD starting in 1969, one of the nation’s…
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On September 15, 2021, President Biden hosted a video event announcing an agreement with Australia to…
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A Royal Australian Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III transport delivered a load of medical and lethal…
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By July the Russians had stated their policy in dealing with the West and Putin’s aspiration…
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Shortly after the U.S. evacuated Afghanistan in August 2021, Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, noted, “America…
Read More »The Able Archers: A Novel which Takes Us Back to the 1983 Nuclear Crisis
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has taken this topic from the domain of the abstract to…
Read More »Germany’s U-Turn on Defense and Security
During my 2018 trip to Germany to focus on how Germany was addressing the new…
Read More »Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century Authoritarian Powers
This is a fascinating and very timely account of the major shifts and challenges which have…
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