Author: Ivan Eland

An Aggressive and Hypocritical U.S. Policy Toward Iran July 14, 2008Ivan Eland The chauvinistic American news media have focused on evil Iran’s missile tests and the indignant Bush administration reaction, […]

Can the Air Force Be Reformed? June 30, 2008Ivan Eland During the tenure of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the Army was the military service in the doghouse.   Under his […]

Lessons for Iraq from the Former Yugoslavia June 23, 2008Ivan Eland President George W. Bush recently visited Slovenia for a summit between the United States and the 27-nation European Union.  […]

Ungrateful Allies June 16, 2008Ivan Eland Recently, hundreds of thousands of South Koreans filled the streets of Seoul near the U.S. Embassy to protest the South Korean government’s decision to […]

Is the Real Problem “Isolationism” or Bipartisan Aggression? June 9, 2008Ivan Eland President George W. Bush and Democratic and Republican luminaries broke ground recently at the future gleaming home of […]

Ominous Opposition to a Long-Term U.S. Military Presence in Iraq June 2, 2008Ivan Eland At the behest of Iraqi Shi’i leader Moktada al-Sadr, his powerful faction staged a formidable protest […]

Bob Gates’s Hope to Reform the Pentagon Is Barking at the Moon  by Ivan Eland In a recent speech, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pleaded with the armed services to […]

The Bush Administration Politicizes Tragedy in Burma by Ivan Eland  From the administration that used the 9/11 tragedy to violently pursue an unrelated vendetta against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, we get […]