Articles By: Stephen Cranney

/ January 21, 2009 12:41 pm

Detoxing Intervention

Lately there have been a lot of comparisons of Iraq and Vietnam. While some of them are warranted lessons for the future, the United States should avoid the pathological fear of military intervention that grew out of our experience in Southeast Asia. Military intervention can be very messy. Not only does it cost a large amount of money, resources, and [...]

/ September 30, 2008 9:58 am

Don’t Lose Sleep Over Georgia

The minute that Russian forces blitzed over the Georgian border, Western media outlets and politicians immediately began drawing analogies between the 2008 Georgian border skirmish and the Hungarian revolution of 1956. Fearful pundits immediately began hearkening back to the days of the cold-war and icy relations with the West. Russia is on its way up, and will no longer be [...]