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Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman Henry Holt and Co., 288 pp. The global financial system runs on a network of undersea [...]

The article focuses on the resurgence of American power under the U.S. President Joe Biden, challenging the narrative of America's decline compared to China. Topics include the strong U.S. economy; technological advancements, alliances; and strategic policies that position the U.S. as a rising global power despite challenges such as national debt and geopolitical threats from adversaries like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.

As he spoke from the sunny steps of the U.S. Capitol during his inauguration, Joe Biden acknowledged that this will be 'a time of testing.' He enumerated the crises we [...]

America has a dirty secret, and a mortally dangerous problem. You will occasionally see it mentioned in the press, but almost no politician will give it more than a passing [...]

Something touched my foot, and I was instantly awake. I squirmed around to face a dark figure looming over me, the muzzle of my M-16 still directed down the trail […]

During 2002 and early- 2003, Bush administration officials put forth a shifting series of arguments for why we needed to invade Iraq. Nearly every one of these has been belied […]

The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did) by James Traub Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272 pp. Every American soldier who served from [...]

Operating on the theory that if you say something enough times people will believe it, the Bush administration and its allies have in the last few years confidently put forth [...]

The retired general and presidential candidate describes errors made by the Bush administration in the war with Iraq.

The article offers information on several strategy made by the U.S. President Donald Trump towards international business and business personalities. Topics include considered that reelection of Trump confirm profound realignment in U.S. security policies and U.S. military priorities where the strategy is based on transactional values and uninhibited by history and experience.

Focuses on military challenges facing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as it moves into the 21st century. Revision of the Strategic Concept to adopt to a new security environment in Europe; Transnational threats; Lessons that the organization can draw from its experience in the Balkan region; Need for a second Mediterranean-based Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps.

The authors present several essays calling for the U.S. government to end all use of torture to detainees. They note that over the past decade, voters have had many legitimate worries: stagnant wages, corruption in Washington, terrorism and a botched war in Iraq. But they believe that when Americans look back years from now, what will shame them most is that the country abandoned a bedrock principle of civilized nations which is that torture is without exception wrong.