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.

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

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

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

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

The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.

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