Columns for
Knoxville News Sentinel &
Scripps Howard News Service
2006-2009
2009
- India's importance in globalization on the rise (4/4)
- Advice for the future of the Navy (3/29)
- The threat of great power war recedes (3/22)
- China's naval shenanigans: the young and reckless (3/15)
- Here's how globalization meets Pakistan (3/8)
- Globalization and American intervention spread peace (3/1)
- Who will rule globalization's emerging middle class? (2/22)
- Globalization "R" U.S.--a price of success (2/15)
- 12 steps for Obama's historic moment (2/8)
- Obama must not sell-out Kurdish Iraq (2/1)
- Obama must recognize and renew U.S. lead on globalization (1/25)
- A glimpse at the future of crowds (1/18)
- Lessons learned from Bush's war on terror (1/11)
- Top 10 foreign policy wishes for 2009 (1/4)
2008
- Four scary words: Egypt after Hosni Mubarek (12/28)
- Obama is not Bush's third term (12/21)
- World still needs America to lead (12/14)
- Revitalizing national labs for great challenges (12/7)
- The grand strategic advantage of Obama's blank slate (11/30)
- When piracy threatens commerce, great powers fight back (11/23)
- Obama's chance to unwind missile defense (11/16)
- What Bush-Cheney got right with China (11/9)
- Postponing "end times"--yet again (11/2)
- Deconstructing villains in Woodward's "War Within" (10/26)
- Post-Causcasian world is not post-American world (10/19)
- The end of the Boomer presidency (10/12)
- Crisis, scandal beget accountability, transparency (10/5)
- To rule high seas, make sea traffic transparent (9/28)
- America's hard-learned lessons from Iraq (9/21)
- Future military actions will end with stability (9/14)
- Finding logical center for grand strategy (9/7)
- Develop Iraq to cut deals with world (8/31)
- What reviving Cold War will end up costing us (8/24)
- Response to Georgia conflict: firm but moderate (8/17)
- What Beijing Olympics will tell us about our world (8/10)
- Study history to know global economy (8/3)
- Options, budgets limited for next president (7/27)
- Fewer wars, more consumers, thanks to globalization (7/20)
- A war that nobody wants but everybody needs (7/13)
- Demographic challenges need not be dangerous (7/6)
- The coming battle in the Pentagon (6/29)
- Europe's take on America's next president (6/22)
- Capitalism's reverse domino effect in Vietnam (6/15)
- NAFTA--the OPEC of food (6/8)
- Missile threat--not worth the bet (6/1)
- Is liberty defined more by politics or economics? (5/25)
- What will America do when Iran gets nuclear weapons? (5/18)
- Buying wings but operating rotors (5/11)
- Clinton--least potential downside (5/4)
- The next globalization--inspired religious awakening (4/27)
- Resist temptation to demonize China (4/20)
- The wrench in the works for planning future wars (4/13)
- Remember when America wasn't so democratic? (4/6)
- China's capitalism isn't so foreign (3/30)
- African economy tied to rest of the world (3/23)
- Losing America's middle ground means losing our way (3/16)
- America's discipline, globalization's survival (3/9)
- The 51st state: Huge upside-down question mark (3/2)
- FDI: the most important financial flow globally (2/24)
- Re-aligning America's grand strategy (2/17)
- Traditional aftershocks of 9/11 (2/10)
- Better days, just not right now (2/3)
- Wars extend frontier on man-machine interface (1/27)
- Hoping for a meaningful election (1/20)
- Future of oil? U.S. isn't in the driver's seat (1/13)
- Resetting the clock on Bush watch (1/6)
2007
- Top 10 foreign policy wish list for 2008 (12/30)
- Squiggly lines predict stability (12/23)
- NIE tells us how to engage Iran (12/16)
- Asian necessity: mother of global invention (12/9)
- Gift from the son of a preacher man (12/2)
- A glimpse of what real victory looks like (11/25)
- All dairy is local until globalization steps in (11/18)
- Build better fairy dust, suffer fewer bad actors (11/11)
- How our military evolves in long war (11/4)
- Doing it the hard way with Iran (10/28)
- Al Gore's Nobel speaks to need for new global narratives (10/21)
- The flu season we should all dread (10/14)
- Putin positions himself as Russia's Lee Kuan Yew (10/7)
- Brett Favre: a Packer fan's appreciation (9/30)
- Reconstructing the Iraq reconstruction (9/23)
- What our lost year in Iraq ends up costing America (9/16)
- Peace provided by nuclear weapons (9/9)
- Targeting roots of terrorism in this long war (9/2)
- Prioritizing China over India in military cooperation makes sense (8/26)
- Sovereign wealth funds globalization's appetite for risk (8/19)
- To rejoin world, U.S. must rejoin conversation (8/12)
- Fast-forwarding to better storyline in Middle East (8/5)
- Looking for victory in all the wrong place (7/29)
- Publishing book in China it's own adventure (7/22)
- Ending today's crisis as easy as naming tomorrow's scarier one (7/15)
- Army America needs versus the wars Americans prefer to wage (7/8)
- Realistically repairing America's image abroad (7/1)
- Africa Command: How America organizes to win war and peace (6/24)
- Why must America go it alone on prosecuting war crimes? (6/17)
- Connecting dots in a complex world (6/10)
- Iran: the ultimate scapegoat on Iraq (6/3)
- Guerrillas of the world: unite! (5/27)
- As China joins the world, it learns by scandal (5/19)
- Iraq is no Vietnam, except to the Boomers (5/13)
- "Star Wars" America should really be buying (5/6)
- Rebranding China's military for tomorrow's challenges (4/29)
- Why Giuliani makes sense for what comes next (4/22)
- Nixon and Deng: architects of our globalized world (4/15)
- Most important American ally you've never heard of (4/8)
- The prisons we build: the company we keep (4/1)
- Foreign policy: distinguishing dedication from commitment (3/25)
- Takes village to raise this child (3/17)
- China's males: looking for war in all the wrong places (3/11)
- Selling big ideas in a sound bite age (3/4)
- In Middle East, enlarge solution, not just problem (2/25)
- Looking for an easy out from war (2/17)
- Democracy: dish best served cold (2/11)
- George Bush is no Harry Truman (2/4)
- When America threatens war with Iran (1/28)
- Facing disasters anywhere (1/20)
- Iran: this emperor has no clothes (1/14)
- Enough of the hedgehog (1/6)
2006
- Foreign policy wish list for 2007 (12/31)
- Reacquainting ourselves with the unthinkable (12/24)
- China's next set of leaders, America's next challenges (12/17)
- Nation-building on our plate (12/9)
- Road to stability in Iraq runs through Tehran, not Jerusalem (12/3)
- Will Democrats build bridges or walls? (11/26)
- Every breath, every move can be watched (11/18)
- Wanted in 2008: child of '60s shaped by '70s (11/11)
- United we stood, but divided we'll stand taller (11/5)
- A bigger definition of "us," a better nation at heart (10/28)
- Pre-emptive regime change: China's turn (10/22)
- Epidemology meets Dr. No (10/14)
- Which way to the front in the Long War? (10/8)
- Ensuring global security: No zero deductible (9/24)
- Five years in, remembering why we'll win (9/10)
- Needed for the Long War: strategic imagination (8/27)
- The "end times" are never-ending nowadays (8/13)
- Resetting the rule set on this Long War (7/30)
- What America should have learned from Balkan Wars (7/16)
- China's U.S.-like time machine (7/2)
- Time is on our side in the Long War (6/18)
- Is security coming to a border far from you? (6/4)
- Post-presidency for Bush already here (5/21)
- Development-in-a-box would be answer in Iraq (5/7)
- Soft-kill option best choice for Iran (4/23)
- What would Churchill do? (4/9)
- Feel insecure about global security? No need (3/26)
- I miss Lady Liberty (3/12)
- China should not be ignored in global economy (2/26)
- Wanted: a department for all else (2/12)