History and Strategies: Grand, Maritime, and American
Of sea-captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors, Of the few, very choice, taciturn,...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
History and Strategies: Grand, Maritime, and American
A nation must think before it acts.
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Too Cheap to Rule: Political and Fiscal Sources of the Coming American Retrenchment
As implied by its evocative title, The Frugal Superpower, the theme of Michael Mandelbaum’s recent book on grand strategy...
Leadership for Military Professions: A Real Strategic Means for America
Introduction As a participant this year in the Consortium on Grand Strategy, a collaboration between Temple University’s Center for...
Sovereignty – The Ultimate States’ Rights Argument
Much as it would be comforting to think that jihadism will wither with Osama bin Laden’s demise, the opposite...
Defining and Teaching Grand Strategy
Grand strategy is a phrase that evokes instant and easy associations. The term immediately evokes a cast of historical...
Can the United States Do Grand Strategy?
In spring 2003, following the last lecture in my survey course on U.S. diplomatic history since 1776, a brilliant,...
The Promise and Failure of American Grand Strategy after the Cold War
Like so many things, it began and it ended in New York. In December 1988, the leaders of the...
Winning the Wars We’re in
Your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable. It is to win our wars.—General Douglas MacArthur The wars in Iraq and...