Domestic Disorder and International Credibility
Please read a new essay by my colleague, Mark Moyar in Strategika.
George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020 at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer triggered allegations that his fate exposed a much broader problem of racism in American law enforcement and American society more generally. As this interpretation spread across old and new media, protests and riots erupted across the urban landscape, spearheaded by the movement Black Lives Matter.
Deterrence, Riots, and Education
Please read a new essay by my colleague, Edward N Luttwak in Strategika.
Deterrence is a tricky business because it all occurs in the minds of adversaries, forming fears that inhibit action. In 1977, while working in South Korea in a last-minute attempt to find quick ways of improving the country’s remarkably retrograde ground forces (President Jimmy Carter wanted to withdraw U.S. troops quickly, as Presidential Review Memorandum #13 prescribed), I kept wondering why North Korea had made no attempt to exploit the Fall of Saigon opportunity of April 30, 1975.
America’s Protests and the CCP’s Dogma of Inevitability
Please read a new essay by my colleagues, Miles Maochun Yu in Strategika.
America’s violent protests in the summer of 2020 have impacted how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) re-calculates the geopolitical power balance and strategic risk of a head-on confrontation between it and the presumably weakened United States, and enlivened the communist government’s ideological impulses against the international capitalist system.
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Dear Dr Hanson, First, please let me briefly thank you for everything you’re posting and publishing. I consider you a mentor and friend, and look forward to anything new coming from you. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone post this before. Please correct me if I’m wrong. On January 6, Senators Hawley and Cruz were just about to set forth before the Congress their evidence for believing the outcome of the recent presidential election had been fraudulent. As I recall, the time for initiation of their hearings was to have been at 2:30 p.m. or thereabouts. It was almost exactly that time when the unrest at the Capitol began. I don’t think it’s “conspiracy-theorist” to believe that was not a coincidence. A crafty sleight of hand diversion was caused by the Left, using some right wing zealots, to dupe the American people and silence the conservative senators who dared to oppose them. Those who sadly perished were simply used to bring about this end. Have you seen anything published about this, or have I just missed it?