Sept. 6, 2020 – U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper calls for a 355 ship navy. August 30, 2021 – U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan.
Category Archives: United States
A Questionable Strategy
June 12, 2021 Historical Background When they “opened” China in 1972 President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger did not anticipate the consequences that would follow. Nixon’s primary motive was to take advantage of the then adversarial Sino-Soviet relationship to open another front in the Cold War with … Continue reading
Resetting U.S.-Russian Relations
February 4, 2016 Henry Kissinger’s speech (original link to https://gorbachovfund.ru is broken) at the Gorbachev Fund in Moscow From 2007 into 2009, Evgeny Primakov and I chaired a group composed of retired senior ministers, high officials, and military leaders from Russia and the United States, including some of you present … Continue reading