I'm currently in the UK doing some research at the National Archives, and I'm reminded that accidental finds are always more interesting that what you're actually looking for. Amidst the voluminous correspondence of the Viscount Trenchard, I came upon the following translation of a German...
Robert Farley
Good news from Kentucky, where Jack Conway managed to beat Dan Mongiardo. Conway is more progressive than Mongiardo and polls better; against the Randernaut he might have a chance. As.
Hard to commit the perfect murder of 46 South Korean sailors these days: The joint investigation team has reportedly found screw pieces of torpedo, probably causing the sinking of the.
Minxin Pei thinks that the Pyongyang regime is unlikely to survive a transition from Kim Jong Il to his son. While the prospects for a collapse of the North Korean state are debatable, it's unquestionably true that the regional states ought to be thinking and...
Drezner is a touch concerned about a potential EFCA (Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement) between Taiwan and China: While China's economic leverage over the United States is limited, this kind of.
The imperial project to conquer, occupy, and annex Haiti seems to have hit a snag: “Haiti, for all intents and purposes, became the 51st state at 4:53 p.m. Tuesday in.
This claim has appeared in a few other places, but apparently without the official sanction: Liu Chenshan, the author of a series of articles that chronicle the five times China has faced a nuclear threat since 1949, wrote that the most serious threat came in...
I'm sitting in Plymouth, UK in the Americano Coffee House. The theme appears to be an English interpretation of a upscale American coffee house. There's a picture of Che Guevara.
Later this afternoon, I will begin a short research trip to the nation formerly known as the United Kingdom. My research had originally focused on pedestrian topics such as the.
Davida Isaacs and I have an article at TAPPED on Iron Man 2 and defense contracting: Explosions, tattoos, and Scarlett Johansson notwithstanding, the disputes between Tony Stark and his antagonists revolve around ownership of the rights to the Iron Man technology. Iron Man 2 is...
Nice slideshow of the 65th anniversary celebration of the end of the Great Patriotic War. Love the T-34s: But especially dig Medvedev's handshake with Death: You can pass 70-630 and.
Congratulations to George Herring! Vietnam War historian George C. Herring, Alumni Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kentucky, is the 2010 recipient of the Medallion for Intellectual Achievement..