As the 90s closed out, humanity was coming together. Now it’s tearing itself apart. Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse September 22, 2018…
Trump is still a danger to America and the world. But if he exercises American power in a way that will…
Trump is still a danger to America and the world. But if he exercises American power in a way that will…
The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) conducted another interview with me (see previous one here) a few weeks ago about…
A detailed examination of Trump’s foreign policy speech from a few weeks ago reveals how little substantive thought or ideas…
With its focus on national security, the mid-December Republican debate, though a month past, can still serve as a stark…
Happy Risky New Year If people thought 2015 was bad, 2016 shows no sign of letting on up on risk. The…
GOP Ideas Help ISIS, Endanger Americans Just because Obama’s ISIS, counterterrorism, and Middle East strategy is complex and will not…
In the wake of Turkey’s downing of a Russian military jet that violated its airspace and Russia’s resulting casualties, tensions…
Author’s note: as Trump pulls U.S. troops out of Syria, it’s worth noting what I pointed out here in late…
How three TV shows illustrate critical dynamics of the Syrian Civil War and how two books show us why we need to…
By intervening squarely on the side of Shiite Bashar al-Assad against his own mainly Sunni people and the entire Sunni…
Grading Obama on what has—and has not—been done by his administration regarding the Syrian Civil War Originally published on LinkedIn…
Top ten political and foreign policy lessons from Game of Thrones, or, how Game of Thrones can rescue us from…
The only alternatives to this deal are the destructive status quo of continued stalemate and standoff that destabilizes the whole…