War and Foreign Policy

The changes wrought in America during the First World War were so profound that one scholar has referred to "the Wilsonian Revolution in government."

Britain's entry into the war was crucial. Without it, the United States would never have gone in.

A 20th century without the Great War might well have meant a century without Nazis or Communists.

The abolitionist would blister his thumb pushing a button that would abolish the state immediately.

“The theory involves a conceptual conflation of democracy and liberty (freedom) that can only be called scandalous, especially coming from se

Christopher Layne and Bradley Thayer both specialize in international-relations theory, in particular what they term "grand strategy," but they hold very different views on what foreign policy the United States ought to pursue.

“The liberal critique of the argument in favor of war is fundamentally different from that of the humanitarians.  It starts from the pre

Free-market solutions have blossomed in spite of being in the heart of a country ravaged by economic sanctions and all but total war.

A just war exists when a people tries to ward off the threat of coercive domination by another people, or to overthrow an already-existing domination.

Like all wars, a just war is laced with dangers beyond the inferno of the battles, especially if war funding relies to a significant degree on the printing press.