Vietnam Made Him; Review of Colin Powell's My American Journey
As members of the Washington elite go, Colin Powell is an exceptionally attractive person. Apart from his great skills as a tactician and manager, and his talent as a politician, he has an outstanding...
View ArticleBanking on Union?
Essay TypesEssayHarry G. GelberThere has recently been sharp debate about that centerpiece of European Union (EU) planning, the European Monetary Union (EMU). In the run-up to the 1996 conference to...
View ArticleDeja Vu All Over Again: Algeria, France, and Us
Essay TypesEssayMatthew ConnellyKnowing history can indeed help us avoid being "condemned to repeatit"--though as often as not only by making new, more interestingmistakes. But how can we explain a...
View ArticleChurchill's Realism: Reflections on the Fulton Speech
Essay TypesEssaySpencer WarrenWinston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, delivered in the gymnasiumof Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, is oneof the two or three most...
View ArticleChirac: Beyond Gaullism?
Essay TypesEssayHarvey SichermanThe annual G-7 economic summits have been justly described as photoopportunities in which anything except economics may be discussed.The Halifax Summit of June 1995 was...
View ArticleAustralia and Asia: Espresso Democracy in a Satay Region
Essay TypesEssayGeoffrey BlaineyThe struggle between Australia's history and geography--the history dominated by British influence, the geography by proximity to Asia--has been an enduring theme in the...
View ArticleInto the Shooting Gallery
Essay TypesEssayAdam GarfinkleA gulf profound as that Serbonian bog,Betwixt Damatia and Mount Casius old,Where armies whole have sunk. . . .--John Milton, Paradise Lost II, 592-4When I contemplate...
View Article'Asianism' and Asian Security
Essay TypesEssayGerald SegalWhen, in January 1995, China seized territory from the Philippines in the South China Sea, the states of East and Southeast Asia conspicuously balked at meeting the...
View ArticleBest of Buddies; Review of Anatoly Dobrynin's In Confidence
Best of Buddies; Review of Anatoly Dobrynin's In Confidence (Random House, 1995)Washington has lived by leaks and rumors for a very long time, but until the collapse of communism there was one person...
View ArticleReckless War-Making; Review of Sergei N. Goncharov et al.'s Uncertain...
Reckless War-Making; Review of Sergei N. Goncharov et al.'s Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War (Stanford University Press, 1993); Kathryn Weathersby's "Soviet Aims in Korea and the...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal: Southern Africa and the World Bank
Essay TypesEssayAnthony FleischerSerendipity refers to unexpected benign coincidence, and the Summer 1995 issue of The National Interest exhibited it well. Taken together, remarks made by Nicholas...
View ArticleAnother Way to Skin a Cat: The Spirit of Capitalism and the Confucian Ethic
Essay TypesEssayGrace GoodellOne morning when I was last in Hong Kong I asked my friend Miss Lim, who always cleans my room at the University's guest house, what she did with the money she earned as a...
View ArticleKenya: A Tarnished Jewel
Essay TypesEssaySmith HempstoneFrom the beginning, Kenya was the jewel in Britain's African crown, an idyllic, wife-swapping, polo-playing, lion-shooting place in the sun for the restless, titled, but...
View ArticleParadise Denied: The State Department, the Caribbean, and the Jews of Europe
Essay TypesEssayWilliam R. Perl"Keep silence before me, O islands, And let the people renew their strength; Let them come near, then let them speak; Let us come near together for judgment."--Isaiah...
View ArticleThe World Trade Center Bomb: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters
Essay TypesEssayLaurie MylroieAccording to the presiding judge in last year's trial, the bombing of New York's World Trade Center on February 26, 1993 was meant to topple the city's tallest tower onto...
View ArticleAmerica’s Security Dilemma: Do We Need a New Nuclear-tipped Stealth Cruise...
There is a growing controversy in Washington over the Pentagon’s plans to develop a new nuclear-armed cruise missile. The new missile, termed the Long Range Stand Off weapon (LRSO), is intended to...
View ArticleIndia Is Buying U.S. Harpoon Missiles and Torpedoes
On April 13, the United States Department of Defense Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced that the Department of State approved two foreign military sales of naval weapons to the...
View ArticleNo, Iran's Cruise Missiles Aren't Better Than America's
Here's What You Need to Know: Tehran likes to talk a big game.The newest Iranian weapon, the Mobin, was displayed at the MAKS 2019 defense trade show in Russia in August. The cruise missile has a range...
View ArticleDid Ukraine Really Build a Cruise Missile With a 1000 Kilometer Range?
Here's What You Need to Remember: Based on research done by Russian experts, Russian forces forward deployed at the Ukrainian border only slightly outnumber Ukrainian troops that could be facing them...
View ArticleTomahawk: America’s Favorite Cruise Missile Keeps Getting Better
Key point: Great power competition is back on the menu and that means more missiles. In fact, the military now has a land-based variant of the powerful missile.The U.S. Navy is now producing a...
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