March 3, 2017
The times they are a-changinâ. But for better or for worse? Just as US President Barack Obama was peacefully ceding his...
September 2, 2016
On pacific pivoting, and not wobbling into war In her history of China since 1800, The Wobbling Pivot (2010), Professor...
February 19, 2016
KINGDOM OF BELGIUM (KB): Empress Victoria neednât swallowâševery morsel of the Congo, but leave a slice for our Emperor...
October 6, 2015
I. Yes, Olâ Cloudsplitter was twitchy as a guillotine; felt called to loose psychotic, Old Testament, âGod told me...
March 11, 2015
From More to Machiavelli, Rand, Orwell and, through Swift, back When the 18th-century American, French and Haitian revolutionaries...
November 7, 2014
Chaos, Schlieffen, and the best laid plans of the planners As the second James Bond flick, From Russia with Love (1963),...
March 23, 2014
Legitimacy loves the art of persuasion In their conclaves in various enclaves (âthink tanksâ and spas), military strategists...
November 11, 2013
How our humanity (or our future) is distressingly contingent on context âTo betray philosophy is the gentle treason /...
June 17, 2013
Great men and women debunked, but passing and accidental heroes are here to stay There are individuals and there are the...
March 5, 2013
