When plunging into war, hope generally triumphs over experience. The past—the quiet statistical tabulation of what happened when this was tried before—tends to be ignored in the heat of angry oratory ...

Hearts of Iron IV offers a gritty military-industrial complex experience, focusing on victory at all costs. Stellaris allows players to craft a sci-fi empire with a unique societal blueprint among the ...

AS a graduate student at Harvard, one of the closest friends I had was the family of my Singaporean classmate, Chung Han Lai, a Singaporean Navy officer. We were both Edward S. Mason Fellows and ...

Mozambique’s long history of nation-building is still unfinished. The country is still pursuing a cohesive national identity, stable institutions, and the economic foundations that would unify diverse ...

IN the first part of this series, we established a simple but often neglected truth: a nation cannot be built unless it honors God. All authority, justice and moral order begin with Him. In the second ...

Iraq. Afghanistan. Sierra Leone. Sudan. Haiti. Kosovo. Examples of the need for a global strategy for conflict prevention, and mechanisms to make it work, seem as legion as the unending human capacity ...