US-China: A Colder Peace or Thucydides’ Trap?
The US and China are on a collision course. Washington urgently needs a new strategy to avoid the traditional fate of rising and status quo powers: catastrophic war
Author Archives: James Kitfield
Russia’s Hybrid Destabilization Campaign Against the West Is Working
By James Kitfield, October 2018 WARSAW – Near the end of September, Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, arrived in Warsaw…
The Opposite of Diplomacy: Trump’s Artless Deals on the World Stage
James Kitfield, Yahoo News•July2018 As a candidate, Donald Trump advocated an “America First” foreign policy to rebalance what he saw as an unfair international order, promising that “I alone can fix it.” In…
Why President Trump Disses Allies and Loves Strongmen
By JAMES KITFIELD July 2018, Breaking Defense A year ago, it would have been tempting to write off President Trump’s “bull in a china shop” diplomacy as the product of inexperience and impulsiveness. However, after eighteen months in the…
Putin “Breaking Open the Vodka” in Anticipation of Summit with President Trump
By James Kitfield, Yahoo News •July 2018 Former President George W. Bush famously looked into the eyes of Russian President Vladimir Putin and sensed the “soul” of a man he deemed to be “very straightforward…
Trump’s NATO Summit Performance Plays Into Putin’s Hands
President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet in Brussels, July 11, 2018. (Photo:AP) By James Kitfield, Yahoo News On arriving at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, President Trumpwasted no time in going after Germany…
Trump’s Astonishing Giveaway to Kim Jong Un and North Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up the document that he and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un just signed at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)…
What a Successful US – North Korean Summit Would Have Looked Like
By James Kitfield, Yahoo News, June 2018 As the historic summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un approaches, the question on many minds isn’t Will it be a success? but What would success even…
Leave No Man Behind: Exclusive Interview with Medal of Honor Recipient Britt Slabinski
On May 24, 2018, President Trump presented the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor, to Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt Slabinski for embodying the U.S. military’s code of “leave no man…
Trump Tweets Reveal Incoherent Syria Policy
James Kitfield, Yahoo News•April 2018 On Wednesday, a day of growing peril in a part of the world where Russian and American forces sometimes confront each other, the president who campaigned on never telegraphing his…