I recently returned from a deployment to Afghanistan and am often asked “how is it going over there,” or, “what was it like.” To answer those questions in true military fashion, it seems appropriate to record my “Lessons Learned,” as any good officer would. My first observation is that I didn’t observe much, and am Read More…
Month: February 2011
Choosing Our Future
In the years after the Cold War ended, International Relations theorists scrambled to come up with new ways to understand the world. Two distinctly different schools of thought emerged. One, championed in Francis Fukuyama’s book The End of History and the Last Man, postulated that liberal democracy would slowly dominate world politics; that nations Read More…