If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
Vast and pivotal expanse of Central Asia and its Mongol-Turkic hordes. These four marginal regions, as he informs us, correspond not coincidentally to the four great numerical religions: for faith, to...
The problem with a foreign policy driven foremost by Never Again! is that it ignores limits and the availability of resources. World War II had the secondary, moral effect of saving what was left of E...
The ancient world was settled so sparsely that nature was not yet eclipsed by man,
The age of comparative anarchy is upon us.
It is the freedom to concentrate military equipment in key locations around the world that has preserved American military might.
Europe's era of internal cohesion may already be past.
Whereas devotees of globalization stress what unifies humankind, traditional realists stress what divides us.
The historian John Keegan explains that America and Britain could champion freedom only because the sea protected them from the landbound enemies of liberty.
Likewise, democracy in Saudi Arabia is potentially our enemy.
ALL POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES ARE uprooted ones because Communism uprooted traditions, so nothing fits with anything else, explained the philosopher Patapievici. Fifteen years earlier, when I had last...
Of ocean, around the North Pole there is an ocean surrounded by a near-unbroken
Yet now that we inhabit Mackinder’s closed political system, which, as Bracken notes, has closed much further in the course of the twentieth century, the map is also subject to the law of entropy, mea...
Historically, both Marxist and liberal intellectuals, in their efforts to remake societies after Soviet and Western models, have tragically underestimated these traditional loyal ties existing below t...
But in Jordan, it is hard to imagine a more moderate and pro-Western regime than the current undemocratic monarchy.
The sum of virtue, Hobbes writes, is to be sociable with them that will be sociable, and formidable to them that will not.1
Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense.
Mahan held that a nation must expand or decline—for it was impossible for a nation to hold its own while standing still.
James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara, Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan (New York: Routledge, 2008); Toshi Yoshihara and James Holmes, Command of the Sea with Chinese Charac...
The two world wars were about whether or not Germany would dominate the Heartland of Eurasia that lay to its east, while the Cold War centered on the Soviet Union’s domination of Eastern Europe