Donald "Art of the Deal" Trump understands leverage — how to create advantage (real or perceived) and how to use it. Trump will, on occasion, bend to adversarial pressure (see Bond Markets) — until he ...

The Saudis are also new at this international diplomacy, and do not have a legacy of past failures or disappointments. That will change as long as the Saudis remain active in regional and global ...

A Young Woman Who Fought the Nazis. As the title suggests, this is a gripping story of French resistance to the Nazis in the Second World War. It begins with the German conquest o ...

China assumes that, after a few years of a U.S. blockade, enough nations suffering from loss of trade with China would successfully persuade the Americans to end it. This has many issues, but it ...

ARAMCO persisted through the chaos of World War II, through the nuclear-clouded Cold War, through wretched decades of Communist, Islamo-fascist, anti-Semitic and anti-American violence. And the ...

Another bit of good advice was to make a clean break after a war. The Americans still have over 20,000 troops in South Korea 72 years after the war ended. Over the last few decades South Korea has ...

The high cost of the new space center was justified by claims that there would be many commercial launches for foreign customers. That proved impossible because the western nations that used launch ...

Russia has more than twice as many police per million population than the United States. Even when these police forces are at full strength, their numbers are often inadequate to handle many criminal ...

“We know the names of many female artists and writers, but possess the works of few.” (p. 3) ...

The limpet mines recently used against Russian ships do not linger. If any fall or are shaken off a ship hull, it is unlikely to do any damage in the future. The amount of explosives is small and the ...

Meanwhile the Chinese Coast Guard has received larger and more heavily armed ships than its American counterpart. Over the last decade the Chinese Coast Guard has received over a dozen new patrol ...

Currently less than ten percent of American military age men are eligible. Only about five percent of soldiers are in combat jobs, with another ten percent handling combat support. The reality is that ...