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The United States risks the fate of Bourbon France, whose strategic brilliance in the American War of Independence masked a contradictory grand strategy that led to ruin.
A combination of blood, faith, character and luck drove development in North and South America at a staggeringly different pace, resulting in today's bifurcated hemisphere.
Throughout its history, Islam has been a motor of change and transformation, a protean force defined as much by its variety and adaptability to lived experience as by struggles ove..
Secessionists in America's South were convinced that Britain's mills could not survive without their cotton. They had not reckoned with how adaptable an economy under strain can be..
Since joining NATO, Helsinki has been forced to rethink its approach to the Baltic. A previous emphasis on economic integration has been replaced by a readiness for hybrid warfare ..
Three centuries on, Jonathan Swift's misanthropic masterpiece continues to delight new audiences.
The Catholic Magisterium has long illuminated the unbridgeable gulf between man and any other intelligent being. In the age of AI, its rejection of utility as the measure of human ..
As Europe and the United States take economic security seriously, Britain remains wedded to an out-of-date 'just-in-time' attitude to supply chains and energy.
Ukraine's resistance to Russian maritime coercion offers a template for how states committed to freedom of navigation can deter those who threaten it.
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