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Trump Transactions: Congo-Rwanda Variations Jul. 02, 2025
Trump administration "transactional diplomacy" envoys definitely tackle the tough wars — but t... Read More
Decoupling, Reshoring and Restoring US Defense Apr. 23, 2025
In a column published June 12, 2019, I wrote, "I think 50 years from now, historians will argue that... Read More
War Beyond Geostrategy Apr. 16, 2025
Our murky, blood-soaked moment in time demands a new look at geopolitics — specifically, what ... Read More
Hegseth Vows Unrelenting Attacks on Houthis -- and Implicitly, Iran Mar. 19, 2025
On the morning of March 16, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Fox News the latest U.S. air... Read More
Deep State and Big Debt: America's Self-Inflicted Strategic Threat Feb. 19, 2025
The political hacks opposing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are laughable — un... Read More
Diego Garcia: The American Nowhere Vexing China And Iran Feb. 12, 2025
The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Ar... Read More
Don't Let Him Feb. 06, 2025
In an insightful column last week entitled "Don't Believe Him," Ezra Klein unearthed an old intervie... Read More
New Gaza as Condos, Not Shell Holes Feb. 05, 2025
The Great 21st-Century Creative Strategic Thinker (Donald Trump, aka, The Great Disruptor) wants to ... Read More
Democrats Keep Doubling-Down on Crazy Feb. 04, 2025
Because American politics is all-too-often a binary system of good versus bad, while policy position... Read More
Strategic Challenges 2025: Petrarch, Nukes, Anarchy and Debt Jan. 01, 2025
In January 2022, I wrote my first formal annual Strategic Challenges column — a quick assessme... Read More
Win-Win Out of No-Win: Previewing Trump's Russia-Ukraine Transaction Nov. 13, 2024
Prepare to toss the common peace negotiation recipes, ceasefire artifices and usual foreign policy n... Read More
Donald Trump: Remember That Less Is More Aug. 27, 2024
The phrase "less is more" has roots in Ancient Greece and works for so many areas of life. Whether w... Read More
The Biden-Harris Afghanistan Bugout 3 Years On Aug. 21, 2024
August 2024 marks the third anniversary of the Biden-Harris administration's most consequential inte... Read More
How Joe Biden Made Mental Decline His Superpower May. 28, 2024
It's impossible for anyone to survive in the world of politics without having a few tricks up their ... Read More
21st-Century Chinese "Cabbage" Warfare: Fake Maps And Water Cannon Supporting Military Threat Apr. 03, 2024
On April 2, India bluntly rejected Communist China's latest sly ploy to claim Indian territory in th... Read More
Time To Punish Iran's Ayatollah Regime For Its War On The World Feb. 07, 2024
Ayatollah Iran treats the world as a war zone. Here's a list of regional battlegrounds: Afghanistan,... Read More
The Complex Dynamics of America's Middle East Engagement Feb. 01, 2024
In the shadowed corners of the Middle East, where ancient trade routes twist like serpents through t... Read More
I'm on the Bridge to Nowhere, and Loving It Jan. 06, 2024
I've been playing a lot of bridge lately — the card game, that is — on my tablet in bed ... Read More
Biden Being Trumped in the Polls and in Storytelling Dec. 20, 2023
A sign in Bill Clinton's election headquarters back in 1992 reminded his campaign team that the key ... Read More
Time To Strike Ayatollah Iran? Nov. 10, 2023
Despite waging proxy offensive wars throughout the Middle East — wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, i... Read More
