Category: Online Archive
160 Articles
- Online Archive
A Flexible Strategic Blueprint for the Korean Peninsula
Given the budget constraints and Kim Jŏng-ŭn’s frequent, erratic actions, any policy choices the United States makes will be fraught with difficulties. Nevertheless, a…
February 19, 2013
- Online Archive
France, Mali, and the Limits of Intervention
In essence, this would entail the French launching a counterinsurgency operation for an indeterminate period of time. This logic ignores one simple fact: the French cannot win a…
February 18, 2013
- Business & Economics
- Online Archive
U.S. Export Control Reform: Progress in Normalizing U.S. Space Trade
Although satellite exports were still possible with a State Department export license under prior versions of the law, the more draconian process currently employed has increased…
February 15, 2013
- Online Archive
Is Outer Space Safe?
Space today is dramatically different than it was when the Outer Space Treaty was negotiated nearly 50 years ago. Space applications and services touch countless facets of modern…
February 14, 2013
- Online Archive
Managing the China Challenge: A Case for Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense
Although some observers of Chuck Hagel’s confirmation and Senate Arms Services Committee hearings wonder if Hagel has thought enough about the China issue due to the lack of…
February 13, 2013
- Online Archive
Is Russia Becoming a Police State?
Last June, Putin signed a law imposing draconian fees on participants of unauthorized gatherings that violate “public order.” In July, laws were enacted which criminalized…
February 13, 2013
- Online Archive
Drugged Policy: Reassessing America’s Drug Policy
The Economics The debate over drug reform has picked up considerable steam in state legislatures in recent years, centered predominantly on the economics of drug policy, and with…
February 12, 2013
- Online Archive
Abe and a Strengthened Japan – By Way of North Korea?
Nowhere, besides South Korea, is the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear and missile development felt as acutely as it is in Japan. Although by all accounts the DPRK still…
February 11, 2013
- Online Archive
Beyond Ethics: Drones in Realpolitik
Aside from the ethical dilemma associated with the use of drones in modern warfare (primarily associated with the impersonal killing of others that are subject of a forthcoming…
February 8, 2013
- Online Archive
A Theory of Cyber Deterrence
Deterrence is an example of a traditional security theory that could be superimposed on the cyber realm. Richard L. Kugler, a well-regarded analyst of national security policy,…
February 6, 2013