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Horns of a Dilemma: Dauntless Courage at Midway
Steven McGregor | Dec 23, 2022
Many stories of the Battle of Midway highlight the role of cryptography in breaking Japanese codes and the herculean effort to repair USS Yorktown after the battle of the Coral Sea so that she could participate in the battle. In this week’s Horns of a Dilemma, author Steven McGregor highlights a less known but equally important aspect: the SBD Dauntless dive bomber.
Horns of a Dilemma: The Ghost of Missiles Past
Susan Colbourn | Dec 16, 2022
The deployment of the Soviet SS-20 missile system in the 1970s and 1980s, and U.S. plans to deploy the Pershing II and Ground Launched Cruise Missile in response, spurred a crisis within NATO over U.S. nuclear deterrence in Europe. Susan Colbourn, associate director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, tells the story of this period in her new book, Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons that Nearly Destroyed NATO.
Horns of a Dilemma: The Ghost of Missiles Past
Susan Colbourn | Dec 16, 2022
The deployment of the Soviet SS-20 missile system in the 1970s and 1980s, and U.S. plans to deploy the Pershing II and Ground Launched Cruise Missile in response, spurred a crisis within NATO over U.S. nuclear deterrence in Europe. Susan Colbourn, associate director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, tells the story of this period in her new book, Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons that Nearly Destroyed NATO.
Will Inboden and David Priess Discuss “The Peacemaker” on Lawfare’s Chatter Podcast
David Priess, William Inboden | Dec 15, 2022
This week Will Inboden appeared on the Chatter podcast with David Priess to discuss all things Reagan including what Will would ask him if he had the chance and how Reagan might view the United States today.
Will Inboden and David Priess Discuss “The Peacemaker” on Lawfare’s Chatter Podcast
David Priess, William Inboden | Dec 15, 2022
This week Will Inboden appeared on the Chatter podcast with David Priess to discuss all things Reagan including what Will would ask him if he had the chance and how Reagan might view the United States today.
Horns of a Dilemma: Freedom and the Rule of Law
Nathan Law, Sheena Chestnut Greitens | Dec 09, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Nathan Law joins Professor Sheena Greitens, director of the Asia Policy Program at the University of Texas, Austin, to discuss his book Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back.
Horns of a Dilemma: Freedom and the Rule of Law
Nathan Law, Sheena Chestnut Greitens | Dec 09, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Nathan Law joins Professor Sheena Greitens, director of the Asia Policy Program at the University of Texas, Austin, to discuss his book Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back.
George Seay and Will Inboden Discuss “The Peacemaker”
George Seay, William Inboden | Dec 05, 2022
George Seay, Chairman of the Clements Center Board of Advisors, recently hosted Will Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center, on his podcast “Seay the Future” to discuss Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy and Will’s new book, “The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink.”
George Seay and Will Inboden Discuss “The Peacemaker”
George Seay, William Inboden | Dec 05, 2022
George Seay, Chairman of the Clements Center Board of Advisors, recently hosted Will Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center, on his podcast “Seay the Future” to discuss Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy and Will’s new book, “The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink.”
Horns of a Dilemma: China’s Campaign Against the Uyghur People
Nury Turkel, Sheena Chestnut Greitens | Dec 02, 2022
In this week’s epsidode of Horns of a Dilemma, Sheena Greitens, head of the Asia Policy Program at the University of Texas, Austin, joins author Nury Turkel to discuss Turkel’s book, No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs.
Horns of a Dilemma: China’s Campaign Against the Uyghur People
Nury Turkel, Sheena Chestnut Greitens | Dec 02, 2022
In this week’s epsidode of Horns of a Dilemma, Sheena Greitens, head of the Asia Policy Program at the University of Texas, Austin, joins author Nury Turkel to discuss Turkel’s book, No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs.
Horns of a Dilemma: How the Gipper Won
William Inboden, Frank Gavin | Nov 25, 2022
In this week’s Horns of a Dilemma, Texas National Security Review editor-in-chief Will Inboden joins Editorial Board Chair Frank Gavin to discuss Inboden’s new biography of Reagan, Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. As Inboden points out, many of Reagan’s signature victories, including his pivotal role in defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time, they were often seen as anything but inevitable.
Horns of a Dilemma: How the Gipper Won
William Inboden, Frank Gavin | Nov 25, 2022
In this week’s Horns of a Dilemma, Texas National Security Review editor-in-chief Will Inboden joins Editorial Board Chair Frank Gavin to discuss Inboden’s new biography of Reagan, Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. As Inboden points out, many of Reagan’s signature victories, including his pivotal role in defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time, they were often seen as anything but inevitable.
Horns of a Dilemma: When the (Micro) Chips are Down
Chris Miller | Nov 18, 2022
This week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma is a must-listen for anyone who knows that microchips are a national security issue, but perhaps doesn’t really understand just why chips are so strategically important. It is equally enlightening for those who have been closely following the security issues around microchips and are eager to know more. Professor…
Horns of a Dilemma: When the (Micro) Chips are Down
Chris Miller | Nov 18, 2022
This week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma is a must-listen for anyone who knows that microchips are a national security issue, but perhaps doesn’t really understand just why chips are so strategically important. It is equally enlightening for those who have been closely following the security issues around microchips and are eager to know more. Professor…
“The Peacemaker” on The Bookmonger Podcast
William Inboden | Nov 14, 2022
Our own William Inboden was recently on the Bookmonger podcast to discuss his new book, “The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink,” which will be published TOMORROW!
Faith Angle Podcast: Elliott Abrams and Will Inboden on the Legacy of Ronald Reagan
Will Inboden, Elliott Abrams | Nov 11, 2022
Check out this discussion with Will Inboden and Elliot Abrams on Ronald Reagan’s national security legacy. The Faith Angle Forum podcast aims to foster substantive conversations that draw out how religious convictions manifest themselves in American culture and public life.
Horns of a Dilemma: The Politics of Passion
Charles Zug | Nov 11, 2022
Politics is serious business. According to Aristotle, “the main concern of politics is to engender a certain character in the citizens and to make them good and disposed to perform noble actions.” But some political leaders seek to manipulate passions and prejudices, rather than appealing to reason and pursuing a noble end. The ancient Greeks…
Horns of a Dilemma: Keeping Civil-Military Relations Civil
Risa Brooks, Alice Hunt Friend, Doyle Hodges, Ronald R. Krebs | Nov 04, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Texas National Security Review Executive Editor Doyle Hodges is joined by three scholars of civil-military relations who have published in War on the Rocks or TNSR (or both) on the topic, to discuss the state of American civil-military relations.
Horns of a Dilemma: See Power? Seapower!
Kevin McCranie | Oct 28, 2022
The field of strategy is littered with authors whose works are often-quoted but seldom-read. While Clausewitz is likely the foremost example of such an author, the naval strategists Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett are not far behind. In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Professor Kevin McCranie of the U.S. Naval War…
Horns of a Dilemma: A Remembrance of Things Not Actually Past
Katie Stallard | Oct 14, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Katie Stallard, a journalist and scholar, speaks about her book, Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea. Stallard details how totalitarian regimes use a doctored version of history–especially history regarding World War II–to forcibly shape public remembrance in a way that reinforces the goals of the regime.
Horns of a Dilemma: Avoiding War With the Army You Want
Radoslaw Sikorski | Oct 07, 2022
As the European Union has evolved over the past 20 years into a more cohesive social, economic, and political entity, one area of integration has lagged behind the others: defense. This is due to the extensive overlap in membership between the European Union and NATO, and to the reluctance of European governments to spend large…
Horns of a Dilemma: When You Wish Upon a Tsar
Daniel Fata | Sep 30, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata discusses the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Fata explains how decades of U.S. policy under administrations of both parties was based on what he describes as wishful thinking.
Horns of a Dilemma: An Overview of Strategy Down Under
Charles Edel | Sep 23, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Charles Edel, the inaugural Australia chair at CSIS in Washington, DC, discusses Australia’s “strategic revolution,” which focuses on building diplomatic, economic, and military capacity to resist coercion by China.
Horns of a Dilemma: Ideology and America’s View of the World
Jeremi Suri, Christopher McKnight Nichols, Raymond Haberski, Jr., Emily Conroy-Krutz | Sep 16, 2022
This week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma features a panel of contributors to a new book on the influence of ideology in American foreign relations. Christopher McKnight Nichols of Ohio State University, Raymond Haberski, Jr, of Indiana University, and Emily Conroy-Krutz of Michigan State University join host Jeremi Suri of the University of Texas, Austin to discuss what ideology is, and explore the ways in which it has shaped, and continues to shape, America’s role in the world.
Horns of a Dilemma: Afghan Crucible
Elisabeth Leake | Sep 09, 2022
Phrases such as, “history is written by the victors,” while often cycnical, hint at a fundamental truth: Historical events assume different significance depending on the perspective from which they are viewed. In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Professor Elisabeth Leake of the Fletcher School at Tufts University discusses her book, Afghan Crucible, which examines the war in Afghanistan from a variety of different historical, political, and geographic perspectives.
Horns of a Dilemma: Protecting Civilians in War: Law, Politics, Strategy, and Morality
Sahr Muhammedally, Dan Mahanty | Aug 26, 2022
A cynic might argue that a Venn diagram of good legal compliance, good politics, good strategy, and morally good behavior has no space where all four elements intersect. This week’s guests on Horns of a Dilemma argue that these virtues coincide in the protection of civilians from harm during war.
Horns of a Dilemma: Storm Center? The Future of U.S.-Chinese Relations
Charles Edel | Aug 19, 2022
In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Charles Edel discusses the big questions in U.S.-Chinese relations.
Horns of a Dilemma: Healthy Worry About Healthy Civil-Military Relations
Kori Schake | Aug 05, 2022
“Civil-military relations” is a term that covers a multitude of sins. Scholars of civil-military relations write on topics ranging from recruiting and retention to military coups to norms of professional military behavior. This week’s Horns of a Dilemma speaker, Dr. Kori Schake, argues that civil-military relations in the United States have historically been strong and stable. So why are U.S. civil-military relations an important topic of study and debate?
Horns of a Dilemma: Remembering Robert Jervis, Part Two
Derek Chollet, Francis J. Gavin, Colin Kahl, Mira Rapp-Hooper | Jul 26, 2022
This episode is the second part of a conversation between four people who knew the late Robert Jervis well:
Horns of a Dilemma: Remembering Robert Jervis, Part One
Derek Chollet, Francis J. Gavin, Colin Kahl, Mira Rapp-Hooper | Jul 12, 2022
Many of those who follow War on the Rocks and the Texas National Security Review mourned the passing of Robert Jervis, the towering scholar of international relations who defined a field and mentored generations of scholars and policymakers. Four of his close friends, colleagues, and protégés sat down to remember his legacy, his intellectual contributions, and his kindness.
Horns of a Dilemma: History is What States Make of It
Andrew Ehrhardt, Doyle Hodges | Jun 24, 2022
Political scientist Alexander Wendt famously (well, in political science circles anyway) observed of the international system that “anarchy is what states make of it.” In this week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we explore the degree to which this observation is true not only of the international system, but also of the mental constructs that states, leaders, and citizens use to think about the concept of an international system and their place in it.