C.J. Chivers’ book, The Gun: The Story of the AK-47, starts with an account of the first detonation of a Soviet nuclear bomb. The remainder of his book recounts the development of the AK-47 ‘Kalashnikov’ rifle, which was the...
In War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean, David Dworak presents a concise and path-breaking narrative of the march of allied logistics from the beaches of North Africa, to Sicily and mainland Italy, through southern...
In recent quarterlies published by The Strategy Bridge, many authors have tended to center the United States in discussions about strategic competition. In doing so, they have illuminated perspectives about the national security challenges facing that nation.
Hypothesis: the...
More recently, H.R. McMaster published Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, in which he introduced in his view on strategic narcissism: the tendency to view the world only in relation to the United States and to assume...
ASEAN assessment of Indo-Pacific strategic competition is somewhat at odds with the western liberal-democratic conception of great power competition. A view in which Chinese aggression and unavoidable great power competition between Beijing and Washington are headline acts. However, our...
The failure of national security planners to adequately incorporate multiple perspectives into United States foreign policy has proven costly both financially and in terms of failure to achieve policy objectives. This unilateral focus stems from a combination of limited...
Notes: Christopher Layne, “The unipolar exit: beyond the Pax Americana,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 24, Iss. 2 (Jul 2011): 149–164; Fareed Zakaria, “The Self-Destruction of American Power: Washington Squandered the Unipolar Moment,” Foreign Affairs, July 2019;...
Notes: Jim Wyss, “‘Colombia’ vs. ‘Columbia’: South American country wants its name spelled right,” Tribune News Service, February 1, 2016, https://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/sfl-colombia-vs-columbia-south-american-country-wants-its-name-spelled-right-20160128-story.html; “Terrence McCoy, “Colombians just want you to stop misspelling their country’s name,” Washington Post, April 23, 2014,...
Notes: On a 60 Minutes interview (Sept 18, 2022). Asked their preferences for “unification,” “the status quo,” or “independence,” nearly 90 percent of Taiwan’s population supports maintaining the status quo with variation across timeline, e.g., “indefinitely” versus “decide...
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;Look on my Works, ye Mighty and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the Decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.The ancient Greeks looked...
