In the case of deterrence and prevention, however, I would suggest that the mess runs deep, and the theory is not tidy at all. When people talk about deterrence, they usually assume that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President George W. Bush’s vision was that by imposing democracy on Iraq, "freedom" would spread throughout the greater Middle ...

Kori Schake observes how similar Trump administration statements about North Korea are to statements from Bush administration officials when they were arguing for the invasion of Iraq. She concludes: ...

Choosing to deter North Korea is to engage in a gamble: you avoid the costs of a preventive war today when North Korea is relatively weak, but you run the risk of an accidental nuclear war later when ...

Since the turn of the millennium, war between nuclear powers has never loomed so near. As North Korea sprints toward the finish line in its race to build a credible nuclear deterrent, the window of ...

Editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine Fyodor Lukyanov remarked that Putin’s address's devoted mostly to the economy, social sphere, while some foreign policy aspects were less important ...

Rios is a human rights advocate with the American Friends Service Committee and directs its U.S./Mexico Border Program. He lives in Chula Vista. During the last weekend of August, a team with Water ...

After 1945, one of the principal reasons why America lost every war it started was because of profoundly flawed strategic thinking. The tragedy is that this flaw still persists. In Vietnam, the ...