Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.