I strongly recommend Joshua Foust’s takedown of Putin-as-master-strategist worship.

What to make of Amer­i­can com­men­ta­tors who seem to love Vladimir Putin? From almost any angle…

In the years since I first got to know him, Kelsey D. Atherton has become not only an excellent defense and technology reporter but also an astute observer of some of the contradictions and paradoxes of our wars. Today, he said something quite…

At the Harvard Business Review, there is a very strange article about the supposed irrelevance of printed books to cybersecurity.

Two things are clear: Cybersecurity books are a 20th-century…

Daniel Drezner links to yours truly and expands on some of the themes addressed in the post on Obama and Putin.

Stephens’s attempt at…

Ben Carson has now made a widely condemned remark declaring that if only the Jews had armed themselves, they would have been able to resist the Holocaust. To call this crass nonsense is an understatement. However, it illustrates something else of interest to readers of this blog: the…