. One of the lingering topic ideas for this blog is to write about the disconnect between how Western governments see the world and how We...

. I was quite surprised when yesterday German TV news (a public station ) flat-out declared that a Western intervention in Syria was now a...

. Most countries are not great powers, but small powers.  Some of them seek national security by being allied with at least one grea...

. Today's small power air forces probably have the feeling of doing the equivalent of preparing for the Second World War with biplanes...

. Recently I wrote about Niskanen's budget maximising model of a bureaucracy. Now let's add some more (knowledge of the mode...

. "The Strategist" blog appears to expand its tolerance for B.S., or maybe there's more to it? The US is indeed Australi...

. (This text is not meant to claim 100% applicability, but I suppose readers will know areas where the observations apply.) One stereo...

. The technology-dominated area of naval combat has spawned a couple operational research-centric publications, amongst them Wayne P. Hug...

. I was asked whether I believe that Egyptian politicians understand democracy. The context to such concerns is -at least to a German-...

. Back during the Mursi administration the Western media focused on his seemingly fast-paced effort to reduce the republic to a republic i...