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China’s Grand Strategy and the BRI
U.S. Army War College Podcast • March 3, 2020
There has never been anything like it in recorded history where a country has put…a trillion dollars aside to help in jump starting all of these infrastructure projects around the country..

FPA LIVE: A Conversation with Major General John S. Kem
The Foreign Policy Association is honored to present a conversation with Major General John Kem, the 51st Commandant of the U.S. Army War College, and Sarwar Kashmeri, Fellow of FPA. The U.S. Army War College is the Army’s prep-school for selecting its future leaders and one of the country’s most important military institutions.

A Template for Peace
ON DEC. 12, THE European Council, the European Union’s highest deliberative body, made a historic decision – to set up an European defense force that can act independently of NATO; and to strengthen the EU’s ability to deploy forces anywhere the EU feels European security is threatened.

A Chance to Make NATO Great Again
ON DEC. 12, THE European Council, the European Union’s highest deliberative body, made a historic decision – to set up an European defense force that can act independently of NATO; and to strengthen the EU’s ability to deploy forces anywhere the EU feels European security is threatened.

Adapting to war in the 21st Century
Adapting to war in the 21st Century: In Conversation with LTG Robert Caslen, Jr., Superintendent, USMA at West Point ▪Why the U.S. has struggled, despite

A Middle East Hat Trick for the President?
The three most dangerous issues that confront U.S. national interests in the Middle East, President Obama pointed out in his Sept. 23, 2013, speech at

Let Europe Defend Itself
NATO was set up 64 years ago to defend Europe against the Soviet Union. The North Atlantic Treaty that created the Alliance hitched the United
What Susan Rice Could Learn From Former Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau
What Susan Rice Could Learn From Former Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau by Sarwar A. Kashmeri • June 9th, 2020 Robert Morgenthau, the legendary Manhattan District