Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs On February 24, 2022, the great Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov and his wife were awakened in their home in Kyiv by the sound of Russian missiles. At…

Dan Grazier, POGO

Introduction
In the first part of this series, POGO evaluated the Washington defense…

Jonathan Trexel & Adam Lowther, RealClearDefense

Vlahos, Responsible Statecraft News that the CIA was sitting on intel that showed Kyiv planning attacks should be a warning: all is not always what it seems.

The Cipher Brief The mood in Kyiv is relentlessly upbeat. This is a moment for Westerners to suppress their anxieties and support the

Bacevich, RespSt The belief that force could somehow provide a tidy solution to complex geopolitical problems has become a continuing all-American theme.

Francis P. Sempa, The American Spectator The Chinese Communist Party, like the old Soviet party, is a Marxist-Leninist regime.

Ben Freeman, RespStatecraft ‘Experts’ from defense industry funded think tanks are flooding the media, pushing for more arms without disclosing their benefactors.

America’s New Majority Americans strongly believe the U.S. military should focus on defending America and avoid inserting itself into politicized social issues.
An…

The Messenger John F. Kennedy knew that supporting developing countries is entirely in America’s long-term strategic interests.