Volume V, No. 4
Summer 2000

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Current Articles:

Why Arabs Lose Wars
Fighting as you train and the impact of culture on Arab military effectiveness.
   by Norvell B. De Atkine
James Burnham, The First Cold Warrior
During the early post-Second World War years, James Burnham, a leading American Trotskyite in the 1930s, emerged as a chief critic of the policy of containment as articulated by the Department of State’s policy planning chief, George F. Kennan, and implemented by the Truman Administration.
   by Francis P. Sempa

From the Editor:

Diplomatic Readiness
   by Henry Mattox

Commentary on Current Issues:

Life in the Foreign Service:

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Letters:

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