Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

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.

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.

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.