From The American Conservative:Jeremy Shapiro wrote an interesting review of Shields of the Republic, a new book by Mira Rapp-Hooper about U.S. alliances. Dan Drezner responds to Shapiro by changing the subject to talk about the recent clash between Indian and Chinese...

From The American Conservative:Kori Schake objects to Biden’s foreign policy record on the grounds that he is not hawkish enough and too skeptical of military intervention. She restates a bankrupt hawkish view of U.S. military action: This half-in-half-out...

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The president ordered an attack on protesters to clear the way for a photo op last night, and he also threatened to deploy the military on American soil:When Trump had returned safely to the White House less than an...

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Tensions between India and China have been increasing over the last few weeks with a buildup of troops along a disputed border in eastern Ladakh. The buildup on the Chinese side appears to have been a response to Indian...

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.An Iranian tanker delivered some gasoline to Venezuela this week, and this is how the report in The New York Times framed the event: Venezuela needs gasoline and has gold. Iran has oil but needs cash. Both Venezuela and...

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Fresh off of his defense of the foreign policy “Blob,” Hal Brands suggests that the U.S. might get back into the business of covertly overthrowing foreign governments:Just as the US sought to undermine or...

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Thomas Meaney debunks the myth of Henry Kissinger:Since leaving office, too, Kissinger has rarely challenged consensus, let alone offered the kind of inconvenient assessments that characterized the later career of...

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The president once again showed his contempt for the Constitution with his veto of another war powers resolution yesterday:President Trump vetoed a Senate resolution on Wednesday that would have required him to seek...

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Ethan Paul dismantles H.R. McMaster’s “analysis” of the Chinese government and shows how McMaster abuses the idea of strategic empathy for his own ends:But the reality is that McMaster, and others...

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.New START has a little over seven months left to live, and the Trump administration remains fixated on its impossible and bizarre condition of bringing China into the treaty:The Trump administration is increasingly set...