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The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Marxist-Leninist doctrine predicted that capitalism would collapse on the “ash heap of history” as global communism triumphed as an economic system. Instead, 20 years ago last Sunday it was the vanguard of the international communist movement, the Soviet Union, which disintegrated.
Global Roundup
Ty Cobb analyzes recent events affecting our national security.
Iran Shoots Down U.S. Drone Amid Evidence of Growing Western Covert Programs
Iranian armed forces claim they shot down an unmanned U.S. drone spy plane over its eastern border region.
Good-Bye Counter-Insurgency; Hello Air-Sea Battle
The U.S. is running as fast as it can from the defining strategy and focus of the last decade—fighting counter-insurgencies and engaging in nation-building. The new leitmotif the Defense Department is embracing is the “Air-Sea Battle.”
The Targeted Killing of Al-Awlaki
By David Husband
A Revamped U.S. Export Control System for the 21st Century
By Manik Suri
A “Historical Gloss on the Vesting Power?”
By Prof. Michael Glennon -- Can the President, based upon no textually committed constitutional power but only upon inherent or implied power, disregard an act of Congress because that law concerns the conduct of U.S. foreign relations? On November 7, before the...
War in Afghanistan – Where Do we Go from Here?
By Bob Gast-- As we in the United States “celebrate” the tenth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan with a cost of several billion dollars a month for the military alone, I have become increasingly curious as to if and when the United States Government will finally...
The Dangers of a Premature Palestinian State
By Lee Hiromoto
America’s Caesar
By Prof. Michael Glennon -- "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. " 'We came, we saw, he died,’ she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi's...