The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, ….

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation..

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval ….

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global..

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it ….

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think tha….

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands..

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deploym….