In Shakespeare’s Henry VI, the rebel Dick the Butcher proposes, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” The line is often read as a backhanded ...

Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. An active-duty US Army Civil Affairs ...

Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and ...

Misunderstanding Terrorism provides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West. The post-9/11 decade experienced the emergence of new forms of ...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be ...

Robert Strausz-Hupé was a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey, NATO, Belgium, Sweden, and Sri Lanka, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, and the founder of the Foreign ...

The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased. Once, war was a temporary state of affairs—a violent but brief interlude between times of ...

During the past 20 years of their NATO membership, the Baltic states achieved a multi-faceted transformation in their strategic posture establishment, military capability development, and level of ...