A collection of 12 posts
If the stewards of American power wish to act effectively and preserve the liberal order in this dangerous new era, they will have to act with the self-confidence of the just man armed.
American conservatives show no interest in understanding their country’s greatest geopolitical foe. The consequences of this incuriosity could be disastrous.
Operations Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer have been successful military operations, but a great deal of uncertainty remains.
The post-11 September wars set in motion political forces that constrained and undermined American power at the moment it was needed most.
Israel’s humiliation of Iran may have changed the region.
Alexander Vindman’s bracing new book argues that Ukraine has been made to suffer the consequences of Western naivety and restraint.
The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.
Donald Trump is often described as an imperialist and an expansionist and these terms are usually used interchangeably. Neither of these descriptions is meant to be flattering, but the larger problem is that they are imprecise.
The people may have spoken, but the options with which they were presented were not befitting of a serious country.
Russia, Iran, and the failure of US resolve.
The notion that Ukraine is a hopeless cause has been dramatically refuted by the audacious incursion into the Kursk Oblast.
If Putin succeeds in his aggression in Ukraine and the Republican Party follows Trump in his admiration for what he has done, then it will be making a decisive break with fundamental American democratic values.