Concentration of forces is the most basic law of military science. Victory on the battlefield is won by amassing as many troops as possible at the key point of attack, or ‘schwerpunkt,’ as it’s known in German. Unfortunately, the amateur strategists in the White House...
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The City of Light Falls Dark
by Eric Margolis | Nov 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
On Friday the 13th, Paris, the City of Light, was plunged into darkness and fear. At least eight young jihadists, allegedly from the so-called Islamic State group, attacked the national sports stadium, where President Francois Hollande was attending a soccer match...
The Older, Better Canada is Back Again
by Eric Margolis | Oct 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
I used to call Canada "the land that time forgot." While the rest of the world lurched from crisis to crisis, Canada remained peaceful, humane, prosperous, progressive, and famously polite, a sort of North American Scandinavia. Polls showed that Canada, for all its...
Turkey: Slow-Motion Crash
by Eric Margolis | Oct 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
Turkey, once a pillar of Mideast stability, looks increasingly like a slow-motion truck crash. What makes this crisis so tragic is that not very long ago Turkey was entering a new age of social harmony and economic development. Today, both are up in smoke as this...
The Russian Bear Growls
by Eric Margolis | Oct 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Frankfurt, Germany –Could anyone in the Obama administration have been so slow-witted to imagine that Russia wouldn’t move hard to counter US efforts to overthrow Moscow’s ally, Syria? The Syrian war began almost five years ago by the US, France, Britain and Saudi...
The Russians are Coming!
by Eric Margolis | Sep 18, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!” So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican candidates for president. How silly. It seems the Russians have sent six tanks to Syria, some medium artillery and a bunch of military...
How to End the Refugee Flood
by Eric Margolis | Sep 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
Remember when America erupted in fury over France’s refusal to support the US invasion of Iraq in 2003? President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominque de Villepin warned that George Bush’s unprovoked aggression against Iraq would destabilize the Mideast and...
Beijing Bingo
by Eric Margolis | Aug 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
My father, a New York financier, used to call dubious stocks or bonds, “Chinese paper.” Last week, we saw a blizzard of Chinese paper, both in China and around the world. As manager of a sizeable investment portfolio (an unwelcome second job from my main work,...
Republicans Can’t Face the Truth About Iraq
by Eric Margolis | Aug 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
Gov. Jeb Bush repeated one of the biggest falsehoods of our time during the recent presidential candidate debate: “we were misled (into the Iraq War) by faulty intelligence.” US intelligence was not “misled.” It was ordered by the real, de facto president, Dick...
Why Do We Lament A-Bombs But Not Firebombs?
by Eric Margolis | Aug 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
All war is a crime. There is no such thing as a “good war.” As the great Benjamin Franklin said, “there is no good war; and no bad peace.” We are now in the midst of the annual debate over the atomic bombing of Japan by the United States. Seventy years ago this week,...
Must We Really Know What Merkel is Having for Dinner?
by Eric Margolis | Jul 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
There’s been so much dramatic news these days – from Greece’s miseries to Iran, China from blowhard Donald Trump – that the shocking story of how America’s National Security Agency has been spying on German and French leadership has gone almost unnoticed. Last year,...
Destroying Syria to Make it Safe for American Values
by Eric Margolis | Jul 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The Turks have passed by here; all is in ruins and mourning. “ So wrote France’s great writer, Victor Hugo, of the horrors he had witnessed during the Balkan liberation wars of the 1880’s. If Hugo were alive today, he might well have used the same haunting lines to...
The Real Victor of World War II in Europe
by Eric Margolis | May 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was churlish for western leaders to boycott this week’s Victory Parade in Moscow that commemorated the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany 70 years ago. Historic events are facts that should not be manipulated according to the latest political fashions. Being...
The Ghosts of Vietnam Should Haunt Us – But Don’t
by Eric Margolis | May 2, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was 1967. The war in Vietnam was raging. I was 24 years old, just out of graduate school in New York City. Cambridge University had accepted me to do a doctorate history. But no. In a burst of youthful patriotism, I concluded it was every citizen’s duty to join the...
Putin Heads Off a US-Russia War
by Eric Margolis | Feb 16, 2015 | Featured Articles
Has Russia’s Vladimir Putin pulled Barack Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire for a second time? Will the shaky cease-fire in Ukraine that began this weekend hold up and end a conflict that was threatening a nuclear war between the United States and Russia? The answer...
Were the Saudis Behind 9/11?
by Eric Margolis | Feb 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
Claims that Saudi Arabia was behind the 9/11 attacks on America have been circulating since 2001. The Saudis have denied all such claims even though 15 of the 19 aircraft hijackers were Saudi citizens. This week, allegations of Saudi involvement reignited as one of...
March to Folly in Ukraine
by Eric Margolis | Jan 31, 2015 | Featured Articles
The United States has just made an exceptionally dangerous, even reckless decision over Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, warns it may lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia. Rule number one of geopolitics: nuclear-armed powers...
Adios Cuba!
by Eric Margolis | Jan 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
It’s taken over half a century for the US to finally figure out how to neutralize pesky Communist Cuba. Invasions, air raids, crushing sanctions, attempts to murder the Castro leadership by exploding cigars and poisons, diplomatic isolation, poisoning crops – all...
Nuclear Chicken in the Mideast
by Eric Margolis | Nov 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
To no surprise, nuclear talks between Iran and major world powers have become stalemated. Iran will not sink “to its knees” to win a nuclear deal with the great powers, said its leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after the failure of six months of talks in Vienna....
ISIS: Fighting the Modern Wahabis
by Eric Margolis | Nov 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
Sir John Baggot Glubb, better known as Glubb Pasha, was one of the modern Mideast’s most colorful and romantic figures. He and "Chinese" Gordon of Khartoum were the last of the great British imperial officers. Seconded by Britain to its protectorate, the Hashemite...
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