Unstoppable Easternization?
The Financial Times’ Gideon Rachman has written an excellent new book, Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump. “The central issue,” Rachman […]
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Victory: What It Will Take to Win
Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in the Fall 2001 edition of the Claremont Review of Books. The editors are grateful for permission from […]
If This is Strategy . . .
Strategy is neither more nor less than a map for getting from here to there—a reasonable plan for using what you have to accomplish what […]
Tackling the ‘China Question’
It is an open secret in Washington, D.C. that China, to put it mildly, is “ripping us off” on trade. This fact is tacitly acknowledged […]
Don’t Let Venezuela Distract from the North Korea Crisis
President Donald J. Trump has marched headlong into another escalating crisis—this time with the imploding Venezuela. And this one is altogether avoidable. Although the growing […]
China and Russia Buy Time on North Korea
A shocking event has occurred in the meandering psychodrama of America’s relationship with North Korea: the world’s great powers have unanimously voted to intensify sanctions […]
Sanctions Squeeze: We’re Headed for World War
Washington is atwitter with talk of sanctions. Lawmakers left and right are riding high, as they “cry havoc!” and let slip the dogs of economic […]
Hollow Men: Russia and the Deep State Bureaucrats Who Hate It
Much has been written in recent months of the “existential” nature of the Russian threat. Yet, as I’ve documented here and at my website, the […]
America’s Newest Epidemic: Toxic Russophobia
Since Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, a constant drumbeat of Russophobia has resounded throughout the halls of power. Today, the drumbeat has become […]
Why is Everyone Suddenly Quoting Thucydides?
Currently, the historian Thucydides is the object of debate among those within the Trump Administration and its critics, who, like scholars of the last three […]
Great Again
Everyone who follows American affairs should understand that the country is now in what amounts to a second, but non-violent civil war. There are still […]
Understanding Trump’s Geopolitics
Like many, I was pleased by Donald Trump’s recent speech to the Polish people. Many commentators have lauded (or lamented) the fact that it was […]
Sebastian Gorka on Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, joined American Greatness publisher Chris Buskirk on the radio Monday afternoon to discuss Donald Trump’s new “America […]
Raise Tariffs, Secure the Nation
The Financial Times accuses President Trump of suffering from an odious, if tongue-in-cheek malady called trade deficit disorder (TDD). The symptoms? A bizarre and unjustified […]
The Way Forward is Up
In 1983, Ronald Reagan gave a monumental speech declaring his administration’s intention to build and place space-based missile defense systems in low Earth orbit. The […]
Trump, China, and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons
Before leaving for the G20 Summit in Germany, President Trump said the era of strategic patience is over. This comes after the return of the […]
Madmen and Nukes: North Korean Edition
The North Koreans put on their own pyrotechnic display over the July 4th weekend with a successful launch of an ICBM into the Sea of […]
Of Paper and Paper Tigers
For 67 years the United States and the world have paid the price of Harry Truman’s decision to renounce the possibility of victory in Korea. […]
Stop Blaming Robots: Automation is Not Killing American Jobs
A Chinese factory made international headlines two years ago by firing 90 percent of its workers, while simultaneously making 162.5 percent more stuff. How did […]
The Bin Laden Raid: Tactical Brilliance, Strategic Dissonance
On May 11, 2011, the Obama Administration authorized the U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six to conduct a daring raid into the heart of Pakistan. Abbottabad, […]