Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Dangerous New Mideast Alliances
Recent reports of preliminary negotiations for a military alliance of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan raise underappreciated risks. Similar concerns ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – U.S. War Without Boundaries
For much of the post-WWII era, the United States maintained a set of institutional boundaries designed to govern the use ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – U.S. Militarism Comes Home
American militarism is usually discussed as something that happens “over there.” Foreign wars, overseas bases, expeditionary forces, and interventions conducted ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Unfortunate Philippines
The Philippines is often described as a country afflicted by a succession of internal conflicts: colonial rebellion, communist insurgency, separatist ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Africa’s Enduring Wars
Armed conflict across Africa is routinely explained as the aftermath of colonialism, the meddling of external powers, the spread of ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Death of Full Spectrum Dominance
For thirty years, American foreign policy has been guided by a ghost. It went by different names like primacy, unipolarity, ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – How DARPA Lost Its Mojo
This article examines how the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) evolved from the most imaginative and consequential technological incubator ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – RAND Alarms the China Hawks
In October of 2025, the RAND Corporation published a report titled “Stabilizing the U.S.–China Rivalry“. Within weeks, the study disappeared ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Trump’s Falklands Temptation
The Falklands War saved Margaret Thatcher’s career. Donald Trump appears to believe it could save his. This article explores the ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Future of Elite Forces
The New Landscape of War The battlefields of Ukraine have revealed a transformation unprecedented since the mechanized wars of the ...
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