Last month, I wrote that the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) recent militarization attempts cannot be sustained due to budgetary and institutional limitations, its inability to achieve strategic parity with…
Now that the French have retaken all the major cities in Mali, the focus of the international community shifts to the future, and to what is next for Mali. One…
In January 2013, President Obama signed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that included a provision to return authority to the President to determine proper export…
In the wake of major launch successes for emerging spacefaring nations such as Iran, North Korea, and South Korea, the international community must consider what it means…
On January 7, President Obama nominated his long-time supporter and two-term GOP senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel, to succeed Leon Panetta as the Secretary of Defense. The nomination has aroused…
“Russia is now a police state.” We heard those words from civil society activists in late September during our Moscow visit on behalf of the U.S. Commission on International Religious…
Not Obama. Not Romney. Nor Biden, nor Ryan. Ron Paul was the only politician to talk about the need to transform American drug policy in the most recent election cycle.
The recent warning of an impending North Korean nuclear test likely stifled any cautious optimism felt in Tokyo after the reconciliatory tone of Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s…
Over the past few weeks, a great deal has been written concerning the use of drones (UAVs) by the American military in theaters including, but not limited to, Yemen, Afghanistan,…
People grow weary of the endless clichés about how inter-connected the world has become. The observation of globalization has become pervasive to the point of irrelevance. Yet behind the clichés…
