Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

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

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.

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 German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.