China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.

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.

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.

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.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

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

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.