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World War II

  • Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously

    At a recent speech in Detroit, President Trump summed up his first year in office thusly: “I told you we were going to do a lot of things, Nobody thought it was going to turn out like this. This has been crazy.” When it comes to Trump 2.0’s foreign policy over the past 12 months,…

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  • The Inviolability of Borders

    “This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.”  President George H.W. Bush made this statement 35 years ago, on August 5, 1990, a mere three days after Saddam Hussein had unleashed his massive army on Kuwait. The predmediated lightning strike by Baghdad’s forces quickly engulfed the small, Persian gulf state, sending oil prices skyward and…

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  • World War II’s Enduring Relevance

    While World War II (WWII) progressively diminishes in importance for many in the United States, the Great Patriotic War, in Russian parlance, continues to weigh heavily on many of Washington’s primary competitors and heretofore staunchest allies.  One only has to view the visitors’ stand at this year’s May 9th Victory Day parade in Moscow to…

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  • Key Challenges for the Next U.S. President – The Return of History

    This is the third article in a series on key foreign policy challenges for the next U.S. president. The series will continue between now and the elections on 5 November.  In his influential 1992 work – The End of History and the Last Man, on the logical progression of social and governmental structures to the…

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  • Operation Barbarossa and the War in Ukraine

    Lost in the glow of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy, the 83rd commemoration on 22 June of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, codename Operation Barbarossa, went virtually unnoticed in the United States. While much credit for defeating the Nazi war machine is understandably given to the American, British, and…

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