American interests are represented everywhere in the world, and the American public doesn’t seem convinced that the cost of this sometimes burdensome luxury is worth the price. After going trillions of dollars into debt and losing thousands of servicemembers to win the war on terror only to find itself abandoning Afghanistan and struggling to fightContinue reading “Why America Is Everywhere In The World”
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The Border Crisis Is Just The Beginning
The border crisis between Poland and Belarus is part of a broader Russian hybrid war designed to pull Ukraine back under its control and destroy the political unity that underpins NATO
McMaster Misses the Mark
McMaster likely knows something about how the U.S. military develops a warrior ethos in its troops, yet he hijacks Veteran’s Day to lay the blame for the ethos’ decline at the feet of the American public and civilian leaders
Afghanistan Was Not Vietnam 2.0 and It Requires Its Own Lessons
As a citizenry we left the war to the professionals while outsourcing responsibility for oversight to politicians who spent most of their time on the domestic agenda which drives re-election efforts. Between the citizenry, the politicians, and the professionals, Afghanistan was left simmering on the back burner, and we lost the plot on what we were there to do and why.
Warlord Diplomacy: Now the Real Struggle Begins
Check out this article we wrote for our friends at Quadrant Magazine in Australia! https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2021/08/warlord-diplomacy-now-the-real-struggle-begins/
The Cost of an Emirate
The Taliban’s Pending Economic Crisis
And Now the War Begins
Anti-Taliban resistance rallies in the Panjshir Valley. Just because the Taliban are in Kabul doesn’t mean the fighting is over
Showtime at the Olympics
How a Sporting Event Reflects the State of the World
Do We Stay or Do We Go?
America’s Role in Kabul After the Withdrawal By Scott Kelly America has shut down and handed over Bagram Airfield, its largest base in Afghanistan and the nerve center for its campaign there for the past 20 years. As it effectively ends its active participation in Afghanistan’s ongoing wars, it plans on leaving behind 650 troopsContinue reading “Do We Stay or Do We Go?”
China, Taiwan, and the Conflict That Could Reshape the World
By James Mackin and Scott Kelly An emboldened China, still flush from successfully suppressing democracy in Hong Kong, perpetrating genocide in Xinjiang, seizing territory in the South China Sea and colonizing parts of neighboring Bhutan is now looking expectantly at “reunification” with Taiwan. The Chinese Communist Party has viewed Taiwan as rightfully theirs since theyContinue reading “China, Taiwan, and the Conflict That Could Reshape the World”