2018-01-11 By Harald Malmgren The election of Donald Trump is still reverberating throughout the American political system. Rather than being an aberration which the professional political class might never wish to see repeated, President Trump’s election was a bold, powerful shock to the long-prevailing, deeply entrenched political system in Congress,…
2018-01-07 By Danny Lam Necessity and proportionality are central concepts behind legitimate use of force in international law from the Anglo-European tradition. The simplicity of the concepts belie the moral quagmire when applied to actual cases such as the use of nuclear weapons on Japan in what became the final…
2017-12-30 By Robbin Laird My wife is French and I have spent a good deal of my professional life dealing with European security and defense issues. I have lived through several phases almost ages of European-American relations and have travelled widely in Europe, and the Soviet Union over the past…
On December 19, 2017, the United States and Canada said that nations from around the world would convene January 16 to show solidarity against North Korea's nuclear program. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, meeting in Ottawa, said the meeting would take place in…
2017-12-15 By Richard Weitz One problem with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018 (H.R. 2810) signed by President Trump on Tuesday is that the costs of defending foreign countries from missile threats is disproportionately paid for by American tax payers. To sustain funding for the U.S.…
2017-12-18 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake We have a fundamental respect for the Poles and their history. No people have learned more about the threats to national survival generated by European insecurities and the Russians than the Poles. We each have a reach into Poland and its heritage but by…
2017-12-18 By Brian Morra The Department of Defense’s acquisition system is a major cause of the erosion of the defense capabilities of the United States. This erosion is visible in high profile, fatal accidents like those the US Navy has experienced in the Western Pacific over the past two years.…
2017-12-05 By Robbin Laird During my last visit to Australia, I spent time with colleagues in the Australian government discussing various aspects of the strategic environment in flux and what the impact of such an environment has on Australian interests. The newly released Foreign Policy White Paper provides a public…
