Leading maritime experts from the United States and Japan will discuss issues regarding the waters of the Asia Pacific.

The presidential nomination process remains the weakest part of our political system. It's too lengthy, its rules are too capricious and giving eternal first dibs to Iowa and New Hampshire is intellectually indefensible.

Conventional wisdom holds that the Navy and Air Force escaped the budget drill mostly intact while the Army endured the bulk of cuts. But the truth is that all of the services are shrinking and aging under the Obama budget.

Review of Stalin: A Biography, by Robert Service, and Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him, by Donald Rayfield.

The great surprise is not that millions took to the streets in Egypt but rather that the United States had for so long predicated its regional security on Mubarak.

It's not hard to understand why the Islamic identity has gained ground on secular nationalism in probably every Muslim state in the region.

The story of Afghanistan in the 1990s is a story of the limits of diplomacy for its own sake, and diplomacy for its own sake is a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's foreign policy; will this administration repeat the mistakes of the past?