On September 6, I opened up my e-mail and found the following:Dear Robert Farley, I hope this email finds you well.I am organizing a few discussions on Party of Defeat.The book has been praised by seventeen members of Congress & Senate.Have you read the book...
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This is the sixth in a seven part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List.In Spite of the Gods, Edward LuceThe Utility of Force, Rupert SmithNegotiating Change, Jeremy JonesEnemies.
This is the fifth in a seven part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List.In Spite of the Gods, Edward LuceThe Utility of Force, Rupert SmithNegotiating Change, Jeremy JonesEnemies.
This is the fourth in a seven part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List.In Spite of the Gods, Edward LuceThe Utility of Force, Rupert SmithNegotiating Change, Jeremy JonesEnemies of Intelligence, Richard Betts Over the years, Richard Betts has written extensively on intelligence issues....
Why did the two Communist giants part ways in the early 1960s? Realist explanations have concentrated on the problems associated with two powerful states sharing a long border. Other explanations.
In Just War Thinking, Eric Patterson sets out to revitalize Just War theory, which he believes has become a moribund intellectual project. Rather than a living and innovative body of.
The Tsar's Last Armada, by Constantine Pleshakov, tells the story of the transit of the Russian Baltic Fleet to the Straits of Tsushima, where it was destroyed by Admiral Togo Heihachiro's battle squadron. The Baltic Fleet was dispatched in response to the successful Japanese blockade...
Back in the late 1980s, a journalist named Tom Friedman worked as a Middle East correspondent for the New York Times. He served in both Israel and Lebanon, and near.
Between December 1941 and August 1945, Japan and the United Kingdom fought an extraordinarily brutal war over control of Southeast Asia. In the larger arc of World War II history,.
The Great Experiment, by Strobe Talbott, is one in a broad family of books written by former executive branch officials about their experiences with power. These books often contain some theoretical noodling, bits and pieces of biographical detail, a few mildly interesting anecdotes within a...
In mid-2002, Benjamin Orbach traveled to Jordan. Orbach was 27 at the time, and wanted to improve his Arabic language skills. This is hardly unusual; a handful of Patterson students.
In early 1972 the heavy cruiser Newport News deployed to Southeast Asia. Newport News was one of the last of the big gun cruisers, commissioned in 1949 and carrying 9.