Whereas love is an issue that is highly complex and unintelligible yet happens to be the most important issue of all, foreign policy is the opposite. Foreign policy and foreign policy strategy are actually quite simple and straightforward and constant and incorrigible, despite the brain fog and confusion that prevails in terms of this issue. … Continue reading Toward a Pacific Community
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The Need for Doctrine
What we often overlook and forget, or what is now constantly overlooked and forgotten, is that through the entirety of the 20th century Cold War and even at this very moment, the global balance of power has long been in favor of Russia and China. America capitalized off of a single Russian mistake for just a … Continue reading The Need for Doctrine
Guilty as Charged
It follows that in the international state system, it is all about core goals and objectives. But when the goals and objectives of various states do not align with one another, they enter into a state of war. And as we mentioned or suggested before, the core goal or objective of the United States is … Continue reading Guilty as Charged
The Problems of Limited War
Everything began with Washington’s limited wars, and in the end, everything will revolve around them as well. And what followed is a failure of “deterrence,” with deterrence amounting to stopping others from doing what they wish to do. Washington's core objective for decades has been to stop others from doing what they want to do. … Continue reading The Problems of Limited War
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
And as mentioned before, the main beneficiaries of the basic change or shift in the global balance of power are none other than Donald Trump, Russia, and China. The decline or the diminution of liberalism as a global “epistemological regime” has led to the rise of new actors and powers in the international system. For … Continue reading A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Adam A. Azim 