Tag: Foreign Policy & Military & War

Good Bye Neoconservatives. Hello to Their Liberal Brethren? November 10, 2008Ivan Eland The media and the Washington foreign policy elite breathed a sigh of relief when Barack Obama thumped John McCain […]

Is a “Resurgent” Russia a Threat to the United States? November 3, 2008Ivan Eland The Russian military was clearly superior to that of a small country in its “near abroad”—Georgia—but is […]

Campaign Endorsements: Obama Gets Colin Powell and McCain Gets Al Qaeda October 27, 2008Ivan Eland In the battle for endorsements in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama snared a strong nod from […]

Will Transplanting the Strategy in Iraq to Afghanistan Save the Day? October 20, 2008Ivan Eland Both candidates in the U.S. presidential election have bought the questionable argument that the war in […]

The U.S. Should Worry About Bin Laden, Not the Taliban September 22, 2008Ivan Eland A recent U.S. raid into Pakistan from Afghanistan using Special Forces on the ground is apparently […]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Georgian Forum August 25, 2008Robert Higgs Well, maybe it’s not really so funny, especially if someone you care about has been […]

Missile Defense May Cause Downward Spiral in U.S.-Russian Relations August 22, 2008Ivan Eland The U.S. missile defense program, which contributed to the deterioration of U.S.-Russian relations that helped generate the […]

Crisis in the Caucuses The U.S. Should Be Wary of Strongly Backing Georgia August 15, 2008Ivan Eland Despite significant U.S. and Georgian culpability in the crisis in Georgia, most U.S. […]

Putin the Terrible August 13, 2008Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—In “Rebuilding Russia,” published as the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote that the “awakening Russian national […]