The United States and the UN secretary-general have made a big mistake in urging Japanese officials to evade or eliminate the constitutional restrictions that prevent Japan from deploying military forces overseas. Their intentions may be admirable. Boutros Boutros-Ghali's pronouncements make clear ...
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Let us hope by failing to confront Iran until January 2020, America’s reluctance to confront evil does not lead to another world war. Let us also hope that today’s Jewish leaders absorbed the lesson that Jan Karski conveyed to the filmmaker Claude Lanzmann: The allies were not interested i...
Wu Shicun:It's not easy for the U.S. to start a direct military confrontation or war with China. That's not a simple matter. In the event of a clash between China and the Philippines, U.S. involvement would probably be limited in scope. This measured approach makes the prospect of ...
Putin, specifically, does not want Ukraine to join NATO “not because he has some principled disagreement related to the rule of law or something, it's because he has a might-makes-right model,” adds Bradley Bowman, the senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the...
China's construction on some garrisoned Nansha islands and reefs is fully within China's sovereignty and does not affect or target any other country. Meanwhile, Japan, which is not a claimant of the South China Sea, has stoked tension by interfering in the matter. Such acts run counter to...
the European Union and Japan as critical to Russia’s military production of precision-guided weapons. Entities that trade in CHPs—or have done so in the past—could be at higher risk for strategic trade-control violations. A closer analysi...
Massive spending on the military and war production in World War II had what effect on the American economy? Why might the United States buy oil from other nations rather than drill in their own territory? Why does the U.S. have a low percentage of people who vote during ...
Shoebridge said China’s annoyance about Australia’s growing military ties in Asia might be one reason for the maneuvers. Bolstered security ties with Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam, all three of which have territorial disputes with China, have increased Australia’s presence in the re...