A Guy in the World

Thanks to University of London Law Professor Kevin Jon Heller's kind post about this blog at Opinio Juris (which is a big deal in int...

In 1980  spent six months as a college student studying in then Communist controlled Poland.  It was an eye-opening experience in any ways...

Say what you will about the Trump Presidency (and I have said quite a bit), he is certainly creating lots of opportunity for my friends to...

Nicholas Wright has a very sobering article at Foreign Affairs (sadly behind a pay wall) about how developments in artificial intelligen...

Later this week, NATO, our most important alliance, is having a summit.  In light of President Trump's disastrous behavior at the G-7 ...

Independence Day, it seems to me, is a good day to step back from the controversies of the moment and reflect on the larger 242 year hist...

In the late 1980's there was a flood of refugees from Central America--largely fleeing civil war in Nicaragua and El Salvador.  As is ...

Loren DeJonge Schulman, a former Pentagon and NSC staffer, now at the Center for a New American Security, has a a must read essay abou...

Franz-Stefan Gady wrote an essay a few months ago that I think merits careful consideration.  His point is that Americans have experie...

Last week, President Trump spoke to the Space Council and announced his direction to the Department of Defense to create a new military ...