My column on piracy, metrics, and grand strategy is up at World Politics Review: Most notably, the report highlighted the lack of any good cost-benefit analysis of the anti-piracy effort. The United States has no idea how much economic damage unchecked Somali piracy could cause,...
Author: Robert Farley
I blogged heads with Michael Moynihan of Reason magazine yesterday. Here we talk about the absence of foreign policy in the 2010 midterm elections:
Since March, 1 person each from New Caledonia, Benin, Haiti, Malawi, Cook Islands, French Guiana, Laos, Bhutan, Turkmenistan, Suriname, Gambia, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Zimbabwe, Monaco, and Guyana have.
And so Bobby Cox retires. After 134 years, the Braves remain nine games shy of .500 (although well over if you count their 225-60 record in the National Association). But then they were 523 games below when Cox took over, so getting them this close...
Iain Ballantyne's new book Killing the Bismarck makes a rather controversial claim: As HMS Rodney, HMS King George V, and several attendant cruisers and destroying were pouring shells and torpedoes.
This is awful, but I suspect we're missing the point: The Republican nominee for Congress for Ohio's 9th District, Rich Iott, played a Nazi for years as part of a.
Quiggin on the end of the Great War: Despite the emergence of the ever-present nuclear menace, 1945 marked the low point of the 20th century in many ways. At least on the Western side, the peace settlement was far less draconian, and far more successful,...
Congrats to Mr. Media Czech on the Maddow shout out! Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
I am in awe of the majesty of @OldHossRadbourn: OldHossRadbourn "You know, Thome could bunt himself to second if I play this right." #RonGardenhireThoughts 2 minutes ago OldHossRadbourn God bless.
I can appreciate why such restrictions were put in place, but I think it's fair to say that they've outlived their utility: A descendant of the Habsburgs is taking Austria to the European Court for Human Rights for not allowing him to run for president,...
This may in part explain why the South Korean Navy was twitchy and mysterious about determining the cause of the Cheonan sinking: The Navy corvette Cheonan was warned on the.
My first column at World Politics Review argues that the United States should nudge the UK towards dumping the Trident replacement: Clearly, the United States cannot dictate British defense policy..