US Navy laments China’s shipbuilding supremacy

The US is seemingly at a loss to match China’s ascendant naval shipbuilding capacity as US Navy leaders engage in a blame game rather than addressing past failures and mismanagement. CNN reported this month that US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said the US cannot match China in terms of fleet numbers, an admission that […]Continue Reading

Without some carrots, sanctions less likely to work

There is a paradox with economic sanctions. They tend to command widespread support within the sanctioning country yet frequently fail to change the behavior of the targeted country. Despite 20 years of sanctions, North Korea can now make a nuclear strike anywhere within the United States. It also supplied infantry rockets and missiles to the […]Continue Reading