11/09/2021 - 12:03am

Could we win a war in China? Forcing Beijing to escalate could be in our interests

Aris Roussinos

02.11

The humiliation of the British Army Two decades of failure have left us woefully vulnerable

Aris Roussinos

22.10

America’s forgotten Powell Doctrine The man I knew refused to be defined by racism

Edward Luttwak

09.10

How to survive our tragedy Covid has receded — but will pride and hubris doom humanity?

Terry Eagleton

10.09

A French lesson for Blair and Bush There's a reason France sat out the Iraq war

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

30.08

Afghanistan always defeats the West A grasp of history might have prevented this disastrous war

William Dalrymple

19.08

America can still win Vietnam showed how retreat can be turned into victory

Peter Franklin

16.07

Who controls Afghanistan? Neighbouring nations are preparing for the conflict to explode

Mike Martin

09.07

America’s empires always fail The withdrawal from Afghanistan was an inevitable tragedy

Douglas Murray

30.06

ISIS is winning the drone wars Terrorists have joined an arms race we cannot afford to lose

Seth Frantzman

22.05

The phoney war between Israel and Hamas The Western media exaggerates the reality of asymmetric conflict

Edward Luttwak

10.09

Why ‘Civilization’ is a political masterpiece Sid Meier's creation invites us to think about how the world works — and warns it could be a lot worse

Sam Leith