Pork in the Defense Budget: The F-35 Has Slipped Under the Radar
America now wages a perpetual war against its own self-interest.
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Tag: ISIS
Putin’s Syria Strategy: It Wasn’t About Syria
Propping the Assad regime was only a motive insofar as it helped achieve other targets.
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An Economic Solution to ISIS
Denying conquest-based and commerce-based income to ISIS can limit the group’s functionality as a governing entity and a fighting force.
The Headache that is Military Procurement: Why the F-35 is Not Canada’s Best Option
The F-35 is a trillion-dollar boondoggle. Buying a combination of jets and drones will cost less, promote economic growth and provide military capabilities better suited to Canadian needs.
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China and the West: Time to End Double Standards on Terrorism
The Western narrative depicts such attacks as Kunming as the result of China’s own flawed ethnic-minority policies.
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The Siren Song of Airstrikes
Failure to pursue political goals in the Middle East with the same gusto as military objectives could render today’s battlefield successes against ISIS meaningless.
Safe Spaces and Safe Zones: How America’s Culture Wars Bleed into Its Foreign Wars
American politicians are engaged in a dangerous war of words with Islamic State, which is exactly what the group wants.
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A Tale of Two or More Cities: What the West Must Learn From Beirut and Paris
Before a shocked and awed Western public cries for military intervention, it would do well to internalize three lessons from the devastation wrought in Paris.
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In Syria, Realism Trumps Idealism
The failures of the Bush Doctrine should have shown that repressive peace is better than instability.
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