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The Fallacy of Human Freedom
Robert W. MerryThe Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern MythsJohn Gray, The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), 288 pp.,...
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Mahan, the Forgotten Grand Strategist
Benjamin ArmstrongThe world was experiencing a rapid globalization, rising powers in Asia threatened to change the balance of power, and across the globe there was a steady increase in naval spending....
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Snowden in the U.S.-Russian 'SpyWar'
John R. SchindlerThe last two weeks have witnessed the unfolding of the strangest spy saga in the history of American intelligence. Edward Snowden, a young contractor with the National Security Agency,...
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Snowden and China's High-Tech Trade
Yu ZhouLess than a month ago, former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden left Hong Kong and remains in a Moscow transit lounge awaiting his next stop. Whatever the political fallout on...
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Russia's Financial Police State
Clifford G. GaddyWilliam PartlettOn July 1, the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) passed to Russia. Thus, with no fanfare, the body set up over two decades ago by the United States...
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X-47B—The Future of War at Sea?
James HolmesLike anyone who's ever worn a U.S. Navy uniform, I belted out a cheery huzzah! last week when the news broke: an X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) had made history's first pilotless...
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Sorry, AirSea Battle Is No Strategy
T. X. HammesIn his article “Don’t Sweat AirSea Battle,” Elbridge Colby argues that AirSea Battle Concept (ASB) provides a more effective approach for dealing with Chinese aggression than the Offshore...
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Shale Revolution Not So Simple
Leonardo MaugeriThe United States is enjoying an oil boom whose real extent is still largely underestimated. In just few years, the country may become the world’s top oil producer, mainly due to the...
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Offshore Control vs. AirSea Battle: Who Wins?
T. X. HammesEditor’s Note: The following article is part of an ongoing debate regarding American military strategy in the event of a conflict with China. For you convenience, here are links to the...
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Where's Congress on Syria?
Robert W. MerryWhere’s Congress? That’s the question that should haunt the American people in the wake of President Obama’s apparent decision to get their country into another Mideast war. In the long...
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Syria: Preparing for the Cyber Threat
Franz-Stefan GadyAs U.S. military strikes against the Syrian government become more likely, many in the West are worried about retaliatory cyber attacks of pro-Assad forces on critical information...
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A Better Syria Option: Cyber War
James P. FarwellDarby ArakelianAs Congress debates strikes against Syria for using chemical weapons against its own people, much attention has focused on using cruise missiles for limited strikes. The...
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Syria's Real Threat: Biological Weapons
Jill Bellamy van AalstOlivier GuittaU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has made the fierce debate on intervention in Syria irrelevant with an apparent gaffe suggesting that in order to avoid a strike,...
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Countering China’s A2/AD Challenge
Dean ChengU.S. defense planners are now focusing on Syria, but they have also been compelled to plan for countering Chinese efforts at what Western analysts term “anti-access/area denial” (A2/AD)...
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Wasting Time in Belfast
Doug BandowIt’s time for another G-something meeting. Is it the G-20? The G-2? The G-47? No, it’s the G-8. Its members are the world’s most important industrialized states. And they gather to discuss...
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