What We Can Learn From Mumbay WASHINGTON – According to reporting in The Wall Street Journal (“Sole Captured Suspect Offers Grims Insights into Massacre“, December...
Europe’s “Soft Power” and the Georgia Crisis WASHINGTON– The way Europe is handling the Russian invasion of Georgia, (including the disturbing corollary of a possible unilateral...
April 4 is NATO’s Birthday The Europeans do very little for the common defense. Is there still a role for the Atlantic Alliance created in 1949? By Paolo von Schirach April 3, 2008 WASHINGTON – Tomorrow is April 4, another birthday for the North Atlantic Treaty...
Asia Rises, America Distracted WASHINGTON – Five years into the invasion of Iraq, defined by its proponents as an essential component of the...
Europe and World Threats WASHINGTON – “We must not –we cannot—become a two-tiered alliance of those willing to fight and those who are...
Not Serious About Energy Independence WASHINGTON – “The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long...
How to Cut The Roots of Terrorism By Paolo von Schirach November 27, 2007 WASHINGTON – Since 9/11 a cottage industry of theories about “the sources...
“The Decline of America” Revisited WASHINGTON – Remember Yale historian Paul Kennedy and his 1987 tome on “The Rise and Fall of the Great...
A Real Debate on Iraq by Paolo von Schirach September 26, 2007 WASHINGTON – There is a peculiar American tendency to obsessively dissect peripheral...
The swamp was not drained by Paolo von Schirach August 14, 2007 WASHINGTON – Early on, at the beginning of the campaign against al...