Emerging Risks

"I don't think the United States is prepared to go to war in Ukraine. I don't think the United States is prepared to go to war over Taiwan," former Naval War College researcher Lyle Goldstein told Newsweek.

"The space program is rotting from within."

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In this article I am going to write about something that the vast majority of the U.S. population couldn't care less about.  Sadly, most Americans simply do not care about Ukraine, Russia's military preparations for

The U.S. has become accustomed to fighting “over there.” The next enemy may bring the conflict over here.

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As noted Russian journalist Pavel Felgenhauer pointed out in November 2021, “President Vladimir Putin declared that if the West deploys missiles to Ukraine that could reach Moscow ‘in five

Russia said on Monday it may be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as NATO's plans to do the same.

Russia, China and Iran are making military threats that demand a response from Washington

I see too many uneasy parallels between what was happening nearly 200 years ago and what is happening now over abortion.

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Opposition MK claims some in Iran's leadership more interested in destroying Israel than their own survival, says rockets from Lebanon must be met with IDF response against Tehran

FEARS of imminent war between Russia and Ukraine have exploded with EU chief Josep Borrell warning of a hybrid attack from Putin.

America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the . . . .

The American monopoly on international rule-writing is facing its stiffest challenge since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Analysis: experts say weakened immune systems may give rise to new Covid variants – so HIV prevention could be key to stopping coronavirus

China continues to rely on its connections with dozens of U.S. universities to collect what it deems is sensitive information in a collaborative effort to build up its military modernization, a report found this week.

His decision to assemble an invasion force along Russia’s border with Ukraine suggests that we are about to enter a dangerous new phase of international relations.

If Putin can take control of a European country by threatening or using force, it will erase the principles of international conduct that have kept peace in Europe since World War II.

January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.

Eighty years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, my Japanese-brand SUV (made in Liberty, Ohio) is parked next to my husband’s competing-brand SUV...

By attacking the past, Putin and his supporters are also attacking the future.

Pavel Luzin on why Russia is amassing troops near its western borders

Two weeks ago, I wrote an analysis of Russian strategy titled “Russia’s Move.” Here’s a brief recap: When the Soviet Union collapsed, it lost control of

Whether the United States should prepare for war with China – and thereby make war almost inevitable – was the matter of a verbal brawl at one of the largest gatherings of American conservatives, t…

Eighty years ago, the world changed forever. In the early hours of December 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes launched from the decks of a fleet of Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carriers that had surre…

Peter Drucker delayed publishing his book, The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism, until 1939 because he was so frightened to say that WWII was about to begin. I feel his angst as I write of my belief that we have already entered WWIII. But, before you jump out of your skin, try to remember that war itself is digitizing, just like everything else. That may mean the confrontations and conflicts of our time may be very different from anything we’ve experienced before.

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