Arming East Asia: Deterring China in the Early Cold War By Eric Setzekorn (Naval Institute Press, 348 pages, $30) The more you reflect on history, the better Dwight Eisenhower as a president looks. Liberal historians and political scientists, enthralled with…
Former President Donald Trump has made news by criticizing NATO members for not paying their NATO dues. Newsweek reported Trump’s latest remarks to an anonymous leader of a presumably NATO country this way: The Republican presidential nominee frontrunner said the anonymous…
The advanced age of Joe Biden is on the ballot in November, when he will be almost 82 years old. You can view his physical stumbles, his angry tirades at the sky, his sentences that trail off into the void…
On July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, and the guns fell silent for the first time in three years on the Korean Peninsula. The armistice effectively restored the status quo ante to the peninsula that had been…
When Dwight D. Eisenhower left the presidency at the age of 70, there was excitement in the air as the torch of power was passed to “a new generation” exemplified by 43-year-old John F. Kennedy. The national media fawned over…
I recently read Stephen Ambrose’s excellent biography, Eisenhower: Soldier and President, on our nation’s 34th president. In the 640-page tome, Ambrose discusses the famous farewell address Eisenhower delivered the evening of Jan. 17, 1961, in the midst of the Cold…
It was a pleasure reading about strong and competent leadership brought to bear when it was absolutely necessary. But I couldn’t avoid a tinge of sadness as well when realizing that, while we’re now in perilous times again, leadership, political…
Some time ago, as part of preparing for a graduate course that I teach, I did a study of the habits of successful crisis management by presidents. I studied four presidents who faced serious foreign policy crises and resolved them…
Recently, Yale Law School professor E. Donald Elliott, a first-rate lawyer and regulatory expert, wrote in TAS that a little-known provision in the 25th Amendment can be used to swiftly toss the sitting president and vice president, and replace them…
“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost…