Showing posts with label U.S. foreign policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. foreign policy. Show all posts
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Invite Russia to Join NATO

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The problem with U.S. foreign policy is that we have no collective memory. The failures in Iraq and especially Afghanistan were evidence of ...
Monday, January 28, 2019

The Wise Men

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Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, and George Kennan were names that I grew up with, reading daily newspapers and weekly news magazines from t...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Gen. McChrystal’s Share of the Task

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Unlike his operational handbook, Team of Teams , this book is an autobiographical review of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s tours of duty as the ...
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Monday, December 4, 2017

Reflections on Haldeman’s Forever War

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“Inside each book is a man,” said Fireman Montag in Fahrenheit 451 .   The Forever War  ( reviewed below ) was the work of Joe Haldeman as ...
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Monday, February 27, 2017

From Pearl Harbor to 9/11

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It might be said that the enemy is different, not a nation state but a dispersed and diffuse array of "lone wolves." It migh...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

War is Good for Absolutely Nothin’

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One person can make a difference. Whether that is for good or bad depends on much that is outside the control of that significant mover and...
Monday, October 5, 2015

The Syrian Quagmire

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If the United States ever sought to build a pro-Western, democratic government in the Arab/Islamic matrix, Syria could have been a good pla...