Francis Sempa

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  • Jun 10, 2024
    Nearly fifty years ago, historian Paul Kennedy wrote a book about the evolution of British naval power titled The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976),...
  • Mar 7, 2024
    The United States, led by President Joe Biden (who a few weeks ago recalled recently speaking to two foreign leaders who had been dead for many years and confusing the names of the...
  • Feb 26, 2024
    Harvard professor Graham Allison, famous for his theory of the “Thucydides Trap,” which posits that a rising global power will challenge the existing global leader for...
  • Feb 19, 2024
    Speaking in the House of Commons on March 1, 1848, Henry John Temple, better known as Lord Palmerston, Britain’s foreign secretary and later prime minister, said: “I say...
  • Jan 25, 2024
    The neoconservative crusade against “autocracy” is on display in the pages of National Review, where Corban Teague of the McCain Institute’s Human...
  • Jan 8, 2024
    Former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, writing in National Review, warns about the “dire state of America’s Navy relative to...
  • Jan 4, 2024
    Writing in the Diplomat, R. Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College professor of Latin America research, warns about “China’s Growing Strategic Position in...