Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for The National Interest, examines the possibilities that may emerge from the potential U.S./North Korea summit in Singapore. Kazianis believes there’s a deal to be had, and that using containment, the strategy that successfully defeated the Soviets, is a better track than using “regime change,” or “kinetic […]
Pompeo Can’t Afford His Own Version of the Iraq War
Writing at The National Interest, Curt Mills hints that because of his future plans for higher office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is driven to make a good showing of his time at Foggy Bottom. Mills writes: The scuttled Trump administration ambassador to South Korea, Victor Cha, told a small crowd in Washington earlier this […]
Bolton Nearly Torpedoes North Korea Talks with the Suggestion of Libyan Model
In The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan lambastes National Security Advisor John Bolton’s suggestion that America use the “Libyan model,” of nuclear disarmament in North Korea. Even those not paying attention can remember that not too long after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi gave up his nuclear weapons, he was deposed and hanged in concert with an […]
The Nobel Prize for Donald Trump?
A The American Conservative, Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, argues that if peace can be achieved on the Korean peninsula, a Nobel Peace Prize has Donald Trump’s name on it. Doug writes: Last year the Korean Peninsula seemed headed to war, courtesy of the United States. President Donald Trump was behaving like […]
Trump Forces a Korea Breakthrough
After decades of stalemate, North and South Korea seem closer to declaring an end to the stalled Korean War than ever before. Without the prodding of President Donald Trump, and his openness to direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, it seems unlikely that this would be the situation. Trump has proven that he […]
Breaking News: Welcome Back Justin Logan!
We are pleased to welcome back Justin Logan to www.richardcyoung.com. You can search the website for his sharp-witted and timeless takes on politics and American foreign policy. Read Justin’s latest piece here with much more to come in 2018! Formerly the Cato Institute’s director of foreign policy studies, Logan writes primarily about politics and American foreign policy. He […]
North Korea: Maybe We’re Just Stuck
Jeffrey Lewis is the rare scholar who combines the ability to write engagingly with knowledge of national security. His piece in a recent Washington Post Outlook section explaining “how nuclear war with North Korea would unfold” was an eye-opener. Combining too-plausible accounts of the mercurial leadership in Pyongyang and Washington, the paranoia of mid-level military […]
America Should Handle North Korea Like it has China and Russia
Harry J. Kazianis reminds readers that despite Russian and Chinese leaders who went nuclear and treated their people horribly, America didn’t go to war against them. He writes at The American Conservative (abridged): Washington knows what to do when a nation that has very different and very threatening national security goals builds nuclear weapons. Remember […]
How Will America Deal with a Nuclear North Korea?
Recently North Korea test fired a missile with enough power to hit Washinton D.C. with a nuclear warhead. Pat Buchanan wonders whether or not thousands of American and South Korean lives are really worth accepting when the price to pay to keep them among the living would be a mere loss of face by the […]
Should America Accept a Nuclear North Korea?
Daniel Larison, writing at The American Conservative, makes the case that America would be better served by accepting the limits of its own power, and dealing with the reality that North Korea is already a nuclear state, and that the genie cannot be put back into its bottle. He writes: The U.S. has learned to […]