Dive into the archives.
- The Rumsfeld Legacy
Robert D. Kaplan tries his hand at a video documentary in this piece in the Atlantic on Donald Rumsfeld. Embedding in this post not possible, so check it out here.
Of course, the video is for your online enjoyment—in the hard copy of the magazine is Kaplan’s piece on Rumsfeld’s legacy, and which reads kinder [...]
- Speak Victorian, Think Pagan: The Original Definition
Five years ago, Robert D. Kaplan wrote the article SUPREMACY BY STEALTH in the Atlantic Monthly. In that article, Kaplan identified ten rules as to how America should manage its geopolitical supremacy and de facto empire. The last of these rules was “Speak Victorian, Think Pagan,” one of the main sub-titles of this [...]
- Kaplan on Malthus
The latest Kaplan is out, and our favorite journalist and patron saint is in fine form! With a comment titled “The Return of Thomas Malthus,” the MAN himself talks about the rise in global food prices and a renewed focus on the apostle of demographic catastrophe.
In the 1990s, a number of writers, including me, [...]
- What Obama can learn from Gates
The man himself has a comment on candidate Barack Obama in the Atlantic blog:
As conditions in Iraq improve, Barack Obama has yet to adjust his proposed strategy for managing conflict in the region.
Like Sen. Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates strongly doubted the wisdom of invading Iraq. Gates was a member of the Iraq Study [...]
- Kaplan on Rumsfeld
Thanks to Lexington Green for alerting us to Kaplan’s latest article in The Atlantic.
How Donald Rumsfeld remade the U.S. military for a more uncertain world
by Robert D. Kaplan
What Rumsfeld Got RightIn 1962, a Harvard economics professor named Thomas C. Schelling wrote an introduction to Roberta Wohlstetter’s Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. In a few hundred [...]
- Kaplan on the Medal of Honor
Thanks to Eddie for sending us Robert Kaplan’s latest article in the Atlantic Monthly on what it takes to win the Medal of Honor.
No Greater Honor
Over the decades, the Medal of Honor—the highest award for valor—has evolved into the U.S. military equivalent of sainthood. Only eight Medals of Honor have been awarded since the Vietnam [...]
- Yes we can
Kaplan explains how we could invade Burma and how it would work. (Thanks Eddie!)
The New York Times
May 14, 2008
Aid at the Point of a Gun
By ROBERT D. KAPLANMae Sot, Thailand: MORE than 60,000 people may have died as a result of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, and at least 1.5 million are homeless or otherwise [...]
- Oh! Kolkata!
Kaplan on India, finally (thanks Eddie!):
Oh! Kolkata!
When judging a new place, a traveler must first always reckon with his or her point of departure. Arriving in Calcutta by bus from Dhaka, the capital of next-door Bangladesh, is like arriving in West Berlin from East Berlin during the Cold War—a trip I made several times. Grayness [...]
- Equal Alliance, Unequal Roles
Following on the Kissinger post of last week, Kaplan has an Op-Ed in the New York Times on the Nato alliance and the unequal nature of the alliance—but unlike Kissinger, he defends it.
Predictions of NATO’s decline hold it to an impossible cold war standard. Then, a direct mortal threat to Central Europe in the form [...]
- Robert Kaplan on ‘The Ghost War’
I’m rather absurdly busy with professional matters and will continue as such for the rest of the week—but to post in haste, check out Robert D. Kaplan’s book review of ‘The Ghost War’ in the IHT:
In “The Ghost War,” the New York Times reporter Alex Berenson has fashioned a smart, economically written spy novel that [...]
