Новости за 11.09.2021

Daniel Benjamin & Steven Simon, Foreign Affairs

The collision of the pandemic and the United States' broken political system, which has turned an unprecedented public health crisis into a unbounded political brawl, has given Americans a taste of the danger ahead if the country continues down its current path. The terrorist threats the United States faces are manageable. The question is whether the country's political leaders can rise to the occasion and manage them.

P. Tucker, Defense One

The ultimate winner of two decades of war in Afghanistan is likely China. The aircraft and armored vehicles left behind when U.S. forces withdrew will give China—through their eager partners, the Taliban—a broad window into how the U.S. military builds and uses some of its most important tools of...

George Beebe, TNI

We face a much different world, and a changing terrorist challenge, in 2021. How should the United States deal with terrorism in the aftermath of its military withdrawal from Afghanistan?

Vuk Vuksanovic, Al-Monitor

Israel's defense industry just added another buyer to its list. Speaking to the Serbian national TV broadcaster, the RTS, the regional director for the Israeli defense company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Al Zaher said, "We are acting in Serbia together with state-owned defense products manufacturer Jugoimport-SDPR, and we are working on the promotion of SPIKE LR2 rockets."

James Holmes, 1945

Andrew Jackson, the pugnacious, populist seventh president of the United States, lent his name to an equally ornery strain in U.S. foreign policy. According to Mead, the Jacksonian tradition is less a school of thought than a collection of folkways—an American subculture. Or as he puts it, it's "an expression of the social, cultural and religious values of a large portion of the American public." Jacksonian America is "a folk community with a strong sense of common values...

John Ferrari, RealClearWorld

President Joe Biden's decision to leave Afghanistan, against the advice of the military establishment and contrary to the actions of three previous presidents, has had the unintended consequence of surrendering the future of his presidency to others. For most Americans, the memories of the tragedy of these recent weeks will soon evaporate, the long-term consequences of these decisions are in the hands of three groups of bad actors.