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Afghanistan and the Genesis of Global Jihad [resources]
The detailed story of how the 2021 Afghan fiasco arose from our sponsorship of the Mujahideen to oust the Soviets. "What is most...
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Sep 15, 202124 min read
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Strategic Eschatology [Draft]
Our troubles with China are like the path to war with Japan in the 1930s. Can we change tack, or are we destined to fulfill our...
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What Does China Really Want?
Henry Kissinger's comprehensive book 'On China', which Julie Bishop was spotted reading on 'Who Do You Think You Are', describes China's...
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The Chinese Experience
Contrary to bloodless, rational technocratic theories of international relations, we assert nations have individual personalities, and...
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In Chinese musical chairs, Australia is left unseated
Australia's current government has left the country as the odd-one-out, without a chair at the China table, while even the US is...
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Who killed detente, and why?
The purge in Washington of anyone involved with Detente was part of a wider campaign against non-interventionist conservatives to prepare...
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The Cold War that never ended
In 1989 a group in Washginton, DC, determined on a policy that would later unseat Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev and install Boris Yeltsin. ...
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How do geopolitical strategists think? Does anyone care?
You might reasonably imagine that to understand how we arrive at our respective foreign policies, you need to understand how geopolitical...
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Ideology and Western foreign policy
Many experienced Amercian foreign policy analysts have explored in print why America misunderstands the world. A large part of which has...
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Religious differences in foreign policy
Evangelical hawks versus deep Protestant anti-war ideology. Differences between deep Protestant and Evangelical Protestant positions on...
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