Between 1991 and 2010, the homicide rate in the United States fell 51 percent, from 9.8 per 100,000 residents to 4.8 per 100,000. Property crimes such as burglary also fell sharply during that period; auto theft . . . dropped an astonishing 64 percent.... »
It has been a while since I've given military affairs extended coverage. There were two big developments in 2011. First, the military is finally coming to terms with the reality that its mission includes counterinsurgency missions and procuring technol... »
There are several basic ways to game the art of predicting the future.* One is to be sufficiently vague to make your prediction a sure thing in a way that sounds meaningful anyway. Predicting that the singer with the most weeks at the top of the Billbo... »
Suppose you are Kim Jong Un. You are in your late twenties, similar in age to a typical entry level associate at a big law firm or medical resident or mid-career NCO in the military. This week you have just inherited from your father (deceased at age 6... »
Kim Il Sung founded North Korea as a country and regime out of the ashes of World War II occupation of Korea by Japan and the process of new state formation that ultimately led to the Korean war, one of the first "hot" conflicts of the Cold War. There ... »
