Four Fires, One Ally With a Hose: Why NATO Has to Grow Up So America Can Survive

At the Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio did something unusual in modern diplomacy: he told the truth politely. He reaffirmed America’s commitment to Europe, praised NATO, spoke warmly about shared history and civilization—and then, in effect, slid a note across the table that read: You’re going to have to handle more of your own business.

There Is Only One Crime in War, and That’s Losing

One of the most controversial episodes of the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is “In the Pale Moonlight,” in which Captain Benjamin Sisko, plagued by the mounting casualty lists in the interstellar war between the United Federation of Planets and Klingon Empire against the Cardassian Union and the Dominion, concocts a plan to …

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Going to War Based on Intelligence Estimates? We’ve Done That Before!

In 2002, President George W Bush started pushing for military action against Iraq, which the Central Intelligence Agency had told him was building and holding ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ WMD, in violation of United Nations’ sanctions after President Saddam Hussein al Tikriti had sent his Republican Guard to conquer and annex bordering Kuwait. President Hussein’s …

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