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Francis P. Sempa
Francis P. Sempa is the author of “Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century” and “America’s Global Role.” His work has appeared in Strategic Review, the Diplomat, Joint Force Quarterly, the Claremont Review of Books, the Asian Review of Books, the South China Morning Post, the National Interest, and other publications.
by | Mar 18, 2024

Sixty years ago, James Burnham’s book Suicide of the West was published to much acclaim from conservatives and much criticism by liberals. It was Burnham’s last book (other than a collection of his National Review columns titled The War We…

by | Mar 15, 2024

Standing Up Space Force: The Road to the Nation’s Sixth Armed Service By Forrest L. Marion   (Naval Institute Press, 289 pages, $82) In two much-publicized novels that envision the next world war, the United States is attacked first in space…

by | Mar 14, 2024

The headline in the Washington Times reads: “West Point deletes ‘duty, honor, country’ from mission statement.” The letter announcing this from West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland recommends that the iconic phrase be replaced with the following mission statement:…

by | Mar 10, 2024

The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century By Ben Steil   (Simon & Schuster, 704 pages, $40) When you arrive at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on the grounds of the Roosevelt…

by | Mar 3, 2024

In a lengthy and important essay in Foreign Affairs about “detente” with the Soviet Union, historian Niall Ferguson, who is completing the second-volume of his biography of Henry Kissinger, mentions Richard Nixon just once. And the photographs accompanying the article…

by | Feb 26, 2024

Sportscaster and CNN contributor Bob Costas made headlines recently by calling former President Donald Trump “by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history” and referring to Trump supporters as being “in the throes of some sort of toxic…

by | Feb 25, 2024

In an important and timely essay in Foreign Affairs, the Naval War College’s Andrew Erickson, Gabriel Collins of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, and Matt Pottinger, who served as President Trump’s Deputy National Security Adviser, invoke General Douglas…

by | Feb 19, 2024

Just in time for Presidents Day, the American Political Science Association released its 2024 survey of presidential greatness, which merely confirms the ideological and political bias of political science professionals — the very same people who teach (indoctrinate?) our children…

by | Feb 12, 2024

“Idealists,” wrote Halford Mackinder in his 1919 geopolitical masterpiece Democratic Ideals and Reality, “are the salt of the earth; without them to move us, society would soon stagnate and civilization fade.” But idealism untempered by an appreciation of human limitations…

by | Feb 4, 2024

Joseph Nye, the emeritus professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and former foreign policy adviser to Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama, who has advocated continued engagement with China even as the Chinese Communist regime looks to seize control of Taiwan and…

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