The war in Iraq was a strategic miscalculation and the single greatest blow to American power and prestige since Vietnam. I supported the…
The true victors of the Cold War were visionaries like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, and Yeltsin as well as the peoples of Eastern Europe. But…
Over the last two centuries, prominent Americans have described the United States as an "empire of liberty," a "shining city on a hill,"…
THE UNITED States has been the dominant world power since 1945, and U.S. leaders have long sought to preserve that privileged position.…
President Obama should take a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook in winning the final inning of the Cold War. Obama can challenge President…
Terror attacks on innocent people have continued around the world since 11 September 2001, but not on the scale of the 2001 attack on the…
With the imminent and long-awaited collapse of the brutal Khadafy regime, President Obama’s careful, persistent, and oft-criticized policy…
As of December 2010, 1.25 million service men and women had returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many have been wounded or injured in…
The United States had never lost a war—that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon…
Power is a contested concept, and no one definition suits all purposes. Many analysts of international relations and foreign policy have…