Eliot A. Cohen is a political scientist and military strategist who serves as a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He served as Counselor of the U.S. State Department under Secretary Condoleezza Rice from 2007 to 2009. He contributed essays and reviews to The Weekly Standard on defense policy, military history, and Israeli affairs.
The first laser-guided bombs operated on what was known as a “bang bang” guidance system. After the bomb’s sensor detected a laser designator’s reflection off a target, its fins would all flip in one direction, and then all in another. After zigging and zagging back and forth, the bomb would, in…
In that classic movie on wartime leadership Twelve O’Clock High (1949), Brigadier General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) reluctantly recommends the relief of his good friend, Colonel Keith Davenport, who commands the stricken 918th Bomb Group flying out of England in 1942. Savage’s diagnosis of the…
Usually one disregards the puffs on dust jackets written by the author’s friends, who have often neglected to read the book in question. In the case of Like Dreamers, however, one of the blurb writers, former Israeli ambassador (and very fine historian) Michael Oren, has it right: “Yossi Klein…
As the obituary notices will tell you, Samuel Huntington was a controversial figure. They lead, normally, with a reference to "Clash of Civilizations?" his 1993 Foreign Affairs article, which outraged many readers by predicting that the end of the Cold War would usher in, not an era of good…