The Space Force has been the subject of much ridicule in the media. The release of Netflix’s Space Force earlier this year and several comedians…
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“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” — Winston Churchill, 1946 Churchill’s oration as…
Imran Khan is a cricket-star-turned-politician who used a mixture of religious zeal and anti-corruption anger to catapult himself from the cricket ground to the office…
Civilian control of the military is one of the hallmarks of a democratic society. A government whose military is not under civilian control is effectively…
Jonathan Reiber is a security expert currently serving as Senior Advisor at Technology for Global Security, a think-tank in Palo Alto, California, and a Visiting Scholar…
Over the past 40 years, Asia has experienced unprecedented levels of peace and prosperity, as the bloody conflicts of the Cold War gave way to…
Editors’ disclaimer: this debate was crafted during early 2018, before the development of new events between North and South Korea’s possible peace treaty that would…
In 1969, the United States became the first country to land a man on the moon. While this was not the first time America had…
“I am become death destroyer of worlds” said J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Hindu scripture The Bhagavad Gita, as he watched the first nuclear weapon…
Soldiers of Fortune: the Rise of Private Military Companies and their Consequences on America’s Wars
Soldiers of Fortune: the Rise of Private Military Companies and their Consequences on America’s Wars
War and conflict are synonymous with human history, and where there is conflict, there are often mercenaries who reap the profits. These “armies for hire”…
Russia announces new arms deals almost daily, and successfully completes them nearly as often. But the sale of Russian arms to a NATO member is…
Six hundred years after the Ming Dynasty explorer Zheng He landed in Mombasa and brought back a giraffe, China’s trade presence in East Africa is…
On the day the Soviet Union fell, the whole world watched, looking to see what would rise from the ashes of the fallen empire. By…
The Growth of the Military-Industrial Complex Under Trump President Dwight Eisenhower’s foreign policy was an ode to interventionism. Eisenhower began the escalation of U.S. presence…
Canadian Ranger transporting supplies in the Arctic during Canada’s annual sovereignty Operation Nunalivut It’s 1984. Cold War animosity is back to normal and the U.S.S.R…
The metal body flies without effort against the sky – searching, synthesizing, processing data at an inhuman speed. A specific face has been imprinted on…
When Jennifer Machmer was commanding a platoon, she was raped by a soldier serving under her. Unable to bear the strain of the assault trauma…
In January 2014, the North Korean government supposedly announced that it had successfully landed a man on the sun. However, contrary to such macho announcements…