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The Con and the Con Job: Trump Proves a Blowhard on Ukraine Jun. 10, 2025
Last week we marked another anniversary of D-Day, the landing by Allied troops at Normandy, launched... Read More
Six Strategic Challenges For 2024 Jan. 03, 2024
Here's 2024's strategic challenges column — challenges to our so-called international strategi... Read More
'Projecting A Different Picture' Won't Solve Biden's Border Crisis Dec. 27, 2023
The quote in the title receives little media and political attention. It should, for it provides a s... Read More
Enemy Proxies Will Target America's Coasts Dec. 20, 2023
Last week's column addressed Iran's proxy attacks on the world economy and the wallets of individual... Read More
The Shell Crisis of 2023: Artillery Munition Shortages Undermine Ukraine and Israel War Efforts Nov. 29, 2023
2023 isn't 1914 and 1915. In two contemporary wars — Ukraine versus Russia and Israel versus H... Read More
Israel's Yemen Front: Iran's Houthi Proxies Wage War at Sea and in Space Nov. 22, 2023
Yemen's complex nest of wars is a hideous but representative example of a bloody, chaotic tragedy ex... Read More
America Faces Multi-Front Proxy Warfare Oct. 27, 2023
Defeat in detail, a classic military stratagem, occurs when a comparatively weaker combatant secures... Read More
America Faces Multi-Front Proxy Warfare Oct. 25, 2023
Defeat in detail, a classic military stratagem, occurs when a comparatively weaker combatant secures... Read More
Israeli Tank Firepower Is an Antidote for Fanaticism Oct. 20, 2023
Like Mark Twain's death, the demise of the tank has been "greatly exaggerated." That line began a co... Read More
Israeli Tank Firepower Is an Antidote for Fanaticism Oct. 18, 2023
Like Mark Twain's death, the demise of the tank has been "greatly exaggerated." That line began a co... Read More
Beijing, Pay Attention: Don't Let Ukraine-Gaza Lead to WWIII Taiwan Oct. 16, 2023
FACT ONE: A major land war rages in Europe. Twenty months ago, Russia invaded Ukraine without provoc... Read More
Beijing, Pay Attention: Don't Let Ukraine-Gaza Lead to WWIII Taiwan Oct. 11, 2023
FACT ONE: A major land war rages in Europe. Twenty months ago, Russia invaded Ukraine without provoc... Read More
Taiwan Arms for War -- If Deterrence Fails Sep. 21, 2023
The year is 2002. I'm on a quick trip through Taiwan en route to Singapore to investigate Singapore'... Read More
Taiwan Arms for War -- If Deterrence Fails Sep. 20, 2023
The year is 2002. I'm on a quick trip through Taiwan en route to Singapore to investigate Singapore'... Read More
Communist China Deliberately Escalates Asia's Lethal Map Wars Sep. 08, 2023
When does a map become a diplomatic grenade primed to explode in the Indian and Pacific Oceans? Answ... Read More
Communist China Deliberately Escalates Asia's Lethal Map Wars Sep. 06, 2023
When does a map become a diplomatic grenade primed to explode in the Indian and Pacific Oceans? Answ... Read More
Turkey Chooses Dictatorship, to the Detriment of the Free World Jun. 09, 2023
The runoff election victory of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is bad news all around. The l... Read More
Reviving The Iran Deal Is More Than Another Display of Chronic Biden Ineptitude and Weakness Mar. 23, 2022
Even when the issues are terrorism and the threat of nuclear war (in the Middle East and Europe), el... Read More
The Strategic Costs of Hunter Biden's Ukrainian Corruption Feb. 16, 2022
Often a bribe is more destructive than a bullet. In Afghanistan the U.S. and NATO could never defea... Read More
Putin, Ukraine and The RUBK: Old News Is Current Bad News Jan. 19, 2022
Fail to study the past (history), from energizing grand aspirations to how-it's-done tactics, and yo... Read More
