Most global defense spending increases tend to benefit US-based firms by default.

How can one stop the dangerous perpetuation of an unrealistic conception of America’s place in the world?

Where Donald Trump is undisciplined and entertaining, Mike Pence is very disciplined and boring. But that discipline will not benefit the Americans at large.

There is no military solution to the war in Afghanistan. The solution to the debacle lies with the Afghan tribes.

America and its military’s proclivity for perpetual war – and what that means for the war against Islamist terrorists.

If the Israelis and the Palestinians learned to live in peace, it would usher in a renaissance the likes of which has never been seen before.

There is no “smoking gun” yet.

Germany’s over-dependence on its automotive industry will be its undoing.

Pessimism is real, but scapegoating the EU for the slow transformation of the Western Balkans is unfair.

What does the EU mean to people in the Western Balkans?