Author: Ivan Eland

Iraq: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors August 17, 2009Ivan Eland In order to crow about its accomplishments prior to the January 2009 elections, the Iraqi government is knocking down concrete security […]

Treat North Korea As a Child Psychologist Would August 10, 2009Ivan Eland The world has been riveted by Bill Clinton’s dramatic rescue of two journalistic damsels from the clutches of Kim […]

Was Rummy Really Wrong? August 3, 2009Ivan Eland In his new book, By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld, Bradley Graham argues that although ideology and arrogance […]

Lessons from Sudan for Iraq July 24, 2009Ivan Eland Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder how the human race has avoided self-extinction and prospered on the planet. […]

To Mitigate Economic Armageddon Slash the Defense Budget July 13, 2009Ivan Eland The U.S. government is deeper in debt than it has been since just after World War II. When Bill Clinton, […]

Iraq: The Coming Train Wreck July 6, 2009Ivan Eland The Iraq War has been long forgotten and treated as a “mission abolished” after the new president pledged to withdraw U.S. forces […]

Is Barack Obama’s Realism Better than George W. Bush’s Idealism? June 29, 2009Ivan Eland Barack Obama’s reaction to the mass protests and violence in Iran shows he is following through on […]