It wasn't that long ago – maybe five or six years – that I last heard someone claim that Russia would never posses real soft power. After all, who could.
Last night I accidentally watched the bulk of the GOP national security debate. There was certainly a degree of entertainment value, and there's something to be said for being part.
My column this week calls for a more rigorous appraisal of US interests in Afghanistan, and gives some reasons why we're unlikely to see it: In other words, would it.
You don't say. "Some nations have strategic oil reserves. Some keep grain reserves. China has both, and something others have somehow overlooked: a national pork reserve." China is releasing a portion.
My latest WPR column is about ongoing political unrest in Haiti: Ideally, the U.S.-led intervention was meant to go down as a Western-hemisphere version of the 2005 tsunami relief operation,.
In light of growing disquiet about Chinese intentions and capabilities in the Pacific among US security types, it's worth taking note of this fairly alarmist Russian analysis: This brings [Aleksandr] Khramchikhin back.
