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Intelligence and ‘MAD’ Management (1962 – 1977): Another Excerpt From “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”

During the horrid thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, had President Kennedy not been made privy to proper and punctual intelligence,…

Ukraine Crisis [Part IX: It Is in the United States and Europe’s Best Strategic Interest That Russia Shouldn’t “Lose” in Ukraine]

What I find most disconcerting at present, almost seven months into the war in Ukraine, is the popular oblivion to the actual peril and the…

Post-Soviet Russian-Western Relations [Part III: Prelude. the Club of First-rate States]

Upon the dramatic failure of perestroika, the ruse of NATO ‘non-enlargement’ associated with the Two-Plus-Four German unification treaty, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact…

President Biden Has Sacrificed U.S.– Saudi, and Incidentally GCC, Relations at the Altar of “Political Correctness”

Rectification always begins with the recognition of error. Let’s face it; the United States has lost the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over one electoral…

Human Consciousness and Peace: How the Perception of Man as a ‘Social Animal’ Inhibits the Manifestation of Conscious Peace

In an earlier contribution to IE Insights, “End of the Simulation: Human Consciousness and the Ukraine Crisis,” I have traced the origins of war to…