Developing Pragmatic Military Strategy
By Andrew J. Bacevich Foreign Affairs During the Cold War, the United States preferred to husband, rather than expend, its military power. The idea was not to fight but to defend, […]
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How we Learned to Kill
By Timothy Kudo The New York Times The voice on the other end of the radio said: “There are two people digging by the side of the road. Can we shoot […]
Heisenberg and Mao Zedong: The Occupier Effect
By Daniel R. Grazier Small Wars Journal What could a German theoretical physicist and a communist revolutionary possibly have in common? On the surface, nothing whatsoever. Dig a little deeper […]
Can Corruption be Eradicated?
By Patrick Radden Keefe The New Yorker October, 1951, a band of thieves hijacked a large shipment of opium in the port town of Punggol, in northeast Singapore. The Singapore […]
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