Articles by Ivan Eland
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BATTLING CHRISTIAN TERRORISTS
Ivan Eland,
16 Feb 2009
Africa was always the continent (one of the few) that even the usually interventionist U.S. national security analysts deemed as non-strategic to U.S. interests. Not anymore. The Pentagon’s new Africa Command bureaucracy, which was created largely to defend oil produced on the West African coast (itself a dubious objective), has already branched out to fight […]
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Ivan Eland,
10 Jan 2009
Somebody is going to have to whisper in President-elect Obama’s ear that the unipolar moment has passed and the United States can no longer afford its informal worldwide empire. Even though the looming economic meltdown will likely be serious – and maybe even cataclysmic – the foreign policy chattering classes of both parties are on […]
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