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• Select America's Wars: A decade ago, the Pentagon prophesied an "era of persistent conflicts." That era is upon us.

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  America's Wars: A decade ago, the Pentagon prophesied an "era of persistent conflicts." That era is upon us.

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:Hoover DigestPeer-Reviewed

  Spring 20222,792 words Article 1310LAmerica finds itself grappling with a series of international threats unlike anything it has confronted during the past three decades. A surging China and a resuscitated Russia loom as major-power rivals in ways...
• Select Distant Warnings: In their eagerness to be done with "forever wars," especially in Africa, Americans and their leaders may just bring the danger closer.

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  Distant Warnings: In their eagerness to be done with "forever wars," especially in Africa, Americans and their leaders may just bring the danger closer.

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20212,056 words Article 1430LPresident Biden's retreat from Afghanistan has generated deep concern about US anti-terrorism policy. Two time zones to the west of the mountainous country, the president's actions raise questions about other possible...
• Select What Beijing Doesn't Want: North Korea's nuclear threats are shaking up Asian security. That could put a welcome brake on China's ambitions

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  What Beijing Doesn't Want: North Korea's nuclear threats are shaking up Asian security. That could put a welcome brake on China's ambitions

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20181,049 words Reprint 1360LThe North Korean missile and nuclear provocations during the past months are changing the geopolitical landscape of East Asia. Much of the world's attention has been focused on the threats posed by the Democratic...
• Select The road to rogue: pariah states tend to eventually settle down and behave, but in the meantime they have a chilling effect on diplomacy and peace

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  The road to rogue: pariah states tend to eventually settle down and behave, but in the meantime they have a chilling effect on diplomacy and peace

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20132,472 words Article 1310LAfter the Soviet Union tumbled into the historical dustbin, Americans assumed that global peace and smaller defense budgets were at hand. Then the rise of rogue states shattered rosy predictions for the post--Cold War...
• Select Covert Operations, Now More Than Ever

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  Covert Operations, Now More Than Ever

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:ORBIS (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20005,271 words Article Lord Acton's famous maxim about the corruptive influence of power is just as true with regard to "absolute" military force as it is with regard to power in the domestic political realm. He might even have added that...
• Select The coming great powers competition

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  The coming great powers competition

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:World Affairs (Vol. 158, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 19954,330 words Article The end of the Cold War brought about the demise of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, resulting in the rise of many power centers. Amidst this scenario, the great-power rivalries that characterized the international order in the...
• Select Security lessons from the Israeli trenches

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  Security lessons from the Israeli trenches

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:Policy Review (Issue 141) Peer-Reviewed

  February-March 20076,022 words Article 1570LREFLECTING ON LAST summer's Hezbollah-Israel border conflict reminds us just how long the Jewish state has had to fight for its existence against enemies that have now become our foes. American practitioners of...
• Select Mozambique: the enemy within

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  Mozambique: the enemy within

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:Current History (Vol. 81) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 1982 Article

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• Select Strategic Patience Wears Thin: The waiting game on the Korean Peninsula grows more dangerous

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  Strategic Patience Wears Thin: The waiting game on the Korean Peninsula grows more dangerous

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20171,181 words Column 1370LNorth Korea's decades-long quest for nuclear warheads capable of hitting the American homeland has been compared by some to a slow-moving Cuban missile crisis. The analogy, like many analogies, is wanting. The famous...
• Select Humpty Dumpty in Syria

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  Humpty Dumpty in Syria

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 2014849 words Article 1330LWith or without outside intervention, nothing will put Bashar al-Assad's tyranny back together again. America should plan accordingly. President Obama's declared "red line" was crossed when elements within Bashar...
• Select The Road from Damascus: The Trump administration's timing may be questionable, but the pullout of US forces from Syria is not.

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  The Road from Damascus: The Trump administration's timing may be questionable, but the pullout of US forces from Syria is not.

  Author:Thomas H. HenriksenFrom:Hoover Digest (Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 2019929 words Article 1280LPresident Trump's abrupt announcement in December that he would yank US military forces from their fight against the Islamic State in Syria plunged the American foreign policy establishment into near-hysteria. The White...