I started writing a book in 2015 that would eventually have the title “The Storm Before the Calm.” In it, I identified a series of cycles I believed would render the 2020s a time of extraordinary instability, uncertainty and fear. There are two cycles, and each would destabilize independently, but for the first time in […]
Sixty years ago, almost to the day, the Soviet Union detonated a 50-megaton nuclear bomb, the largest discharged ever before or since, vastly dwarfing...
The decision by the Australian government to join a U.S.-British consortium to help construct a nuclear submarine capability enraged France, whose previous efforts to...
I’ve spent the past few weeks trying to answer a fundamental question: Why did the United States, economically and militarily the most powerful nation...
China is the definition of dynamic. Until the 20th century, the regions of Tibet, Xinjiang, Manchuria and Inner Mongolia were not under the political...
The Geopolitics of the American President