Random linkage in lieu of substantive blogging:Stephen Biddle on AfghanistanHow did Admiral Motti rise to that rank?Ethiopia-Eritrea proxy war in Somalia.Teaching history in Texas public schools is, well, ahistorical.Trend should make this Latin America roundup a regular feature. Stephen Walt encapsulates the Reagan Revolution: One...
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To follow up on Dave's post about the Royal Navy, it appears that the first steel has been cut for Queen Elizabeth, the first of the RN's new big deck.
This is the sixth installment of a seven part series on the Patterson School's Summer Reading List.World of Nations, William KeylorThe Bottom Billion, Paul CollierHide and Seek, Charles DuelferSecond World,.
This is the 20th and final chapter in the series on George Herring From Colony to Superpower. that Erik Loomis and I have embarked upon. The twentieth chapter runs from roughly the end of the first Gulf War until about 2007. The world that faced...
OK, I'm officially disappointed in my President. It was bad enough that he failed to decisively end Bush's extraordinary rendition program (claiming he'll only make sure it's no longer abused);.
This is the 19th installment of our 20 part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower. Erik had the honors this week; check out his post first.Reagan's approach to.
Part 18 in our twenty part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower brings us to 1974, and Gerald Ford's unlikely ascension to the office of the Presidency. The chapter ends with the election of Ronald Reagan. In between, Herring expresses unlikely sympathy for...
We're now to part 17 of our twenty part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower. I am told that there is the possibility that the second half of.
Chapter XVI of From Colony to Superpower covers the Kennedy and Johnson years. Erik has some additional thoughts on chapter XV; check them out. The time periods covered by chapters.
Erik leads off the 15th installment of our 20 part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower with a discussion of John Foster Dulles, and of the role of racism in America's Cold War foreign policy. I'm more interested in Eisenhower's relationship with the...
by September 1945, the United States was, by far, the most powerful state in the world. It had the largest economy, the largest military, and held a monopoly on the.
Erik starts off this week's discussion of From Colony to Superpower. Chapter XIII covers the years between 1942 and 1945, which involved a rather significant expansion of the global profile.