Trump’s Foreign Policy
The long-term future of Republican foreign policy will require balancing internationalist, hardline, and noninterventionist concerns.
Articles by Patrick J. Garrity
Foxes and Hedgehogs
Our modern sensibility should correspond to the ancient virtues of prudence and statecraft.
Regarding Henry
A look at Kissinger's early idealism.
The Third Nuclear Age?
Is the possibility of nuclear war just a relic from the Cold War?
The Falkland Islands War: Then and…
Patrick J. Garrity discusses Soviet and Russian interest in the Falklands.
Education of an American Diplomat
Patrick J. Garrity discusses John Quincy Adams and the education of an American diplomat.
The Spirits of Geneva
Burned Out
A review of several books on national security by Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, and Cyrus Vance
The Hungarian Resolution
Patrick J. Garrity examines Abraham Lincoln's "Resolutions in Behalf of Hungarian Freedom".
Shielding the Republic
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Walter Lippmann's "U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic".
Kim’s Great Game
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Rudyard Kipling's "Kim".
Defending the Rimland
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Nicholas Spykman's "America's Strategy in World Politics: The United States and the Balance of Power," and "The Geography of the Peace".
The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates
Patrick J. Garrity on the Pacificus-Helvidius debates.
The Pivot of Europe
Patrick J. Garrity reviews " Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present," by Brendan Simms.
Harold W. Rood and the German Problem
Patrick J. Garrity on Harold Rood and the "German problem".
Churchill and the World Crisis
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Winston Churchill's "The World Crisis".
The Fleet was Ready
Patrick J. Garrity discusses Winston Churchill's naval strategy as First lord of the Admiralty, and in Churchill's "The World Crisis".
And the War Came
Patrick J. Garrity reviews Allen C. Guelzo's "Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction" and "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion".
A Difficult Dawn
Patrick J. Garrity reviews Rick Atkinson's "Liberation Trilogy".
Of Wildcats and Whales
Patrick J. Garrity reviews Rick Atkinson's "Liberation Trilogy".
A Tough Third Act
Patrick J. Garrity reviews Rick Atkinson's "Liberation Trilogy".
War Liberals
Patrick J. Garrity on Progressives and the use of force.
China and Strategic Paradox
Patrick J. Garrity reviews "The Rise of China vs. The Logic of Strategy," by Edward Luttwak.
Classics Review: Imperial Diplomacy
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses the work of William L. Langer.
The Falklands Factor
Patrick J. Garrity on the Falklands War.
Classics Review: Nazi Bureaucrats
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Paul Seabury's "The Wilhelmstrasse: A Study of German Diplomats under the Nazi Regime".
The Sage of Singapore
Patrick J. Garrity on the career of "Harry" Lee Kuan Yew, the Sage of Singapore.
Engineers of Victory
Patrick J. Garrity reviews "Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War," by Paul Kennedy.
Uncle Sam’s Web-Feet
Patrick J. Garrity reviews "War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865," by James M. McPherson.
Classics Review: The Building of a Navy
Patrick J. Garrity on Benjamin Franklin Tracy's building of a navy.
Iron Curtain: Rust or Rupture?
Patrick J. Garrity reviews Anne Applebaum's "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956".
Classics Review: America and the Revolutions of 1848
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses William H. Stiles's "Austria in 1848-49: Being a History of the Late Political Movements in Vienna, Milan, Venice, and Prague; with Details of the Campaigns of Lombardy and Novara: A Full Account of the Revolution in Hungary; and Historical Sketches of the Austrian Government and the Princes of the Empire".
Supreme Command
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Eliot Cohen's "Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime".
The Ghost of Herbert Hoover
A review of Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, edited with an introduction by George H. Nash
Alternative Worlds
Patrick J. Garrity reviews the National Intelligence Council's "Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds".
Classics Review: The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Ulysses S. Grant's "The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant."
Addendum to Eisenhower’s New Look
Patrick J. Garrity discusses Winston Churchill and nuclear deterrence.
A New Look at the New Look
Patrick J. Garrity examines nuclear deterrence and Dwight D. Eisenhower's "New Look".
Classics Review: William Gilpin’s
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses William Gilpin's "The Central Gold Region: The Grain, Pastoral and Gold Regions of North America, with Some New Views of its Physical Geography; and Observations of the Pacific Railroad".
Seward’s Folly or Farsightedness?
Patrick J. Garrity discusses America's ideal geopolitical space, and the strategic concerns of William H. Seward.
The Founding and the Law of Nations
Patrick J. Garrity discusses the promises and difficulties of using American power to create an international system favorable to peace, prosperity, and liberal politics.
The Prolific John Keegan
Patrick J. Garrity reviews the work of Sir John Keegan.
Classics Review: Grading Madison’s Examination
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses James Madison's "An Examination of the British Doctrine, Which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade, Not Open in Time of Peace".
The Iron Revolutionary
Patrick J. Garrity on Otto von Bismarck.
Classics Review: Churchill on Afghanistan
Patrick J. Garrity reassesses Winston Churchill's "The Story of the Malakand Field Force".
Rise and Fall of Venice
Patrick J. Garrity discusses the rise and fall of the Venetian Empire.
Eisenhower the Political General
Patrick J. Garrity discusses the political acumen of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The Tribe of the Eagle
Patrick J. Garrity reviews "Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership," by Barry Strauss.
First in War, First in Peace
Patrick J. Garrity discusses the military reputation of George Washington.
The Great Warpath
Patrick J. Garrity reviews "Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War," by Eliot Cohen.
Classics of the Crimean War
Patrick J. Garrity on the literature of the Crimean War.
Strategic Pivots and Priorities
Patrick J. Garrity discusses the possibility and risks of strategic pivots.
The Parameters of Victory
Patrick J. Garrity on war's culminating point and the parameters of victory.
Is Geography Destiny?
Patrick J. Garrity reviews Robert D. Kaplan's "The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle against Fate".
Debating the Monroe Doctrine
Patrick J. Garrity discusses the Monroe Doctrine.
Iron Fist, Velvet Glove
Patrick J. Garrity reviews "America's Path: Grand Strategy for the Next Administration," edited by CNAS staff Richard Fontaine and Kristin M. Lord.
Russian War Guilt
Patrick J. Garrity reviews Sean McMeekin's "The Russian Origins of the First World War".
Balancing Act
Patrick J. Garrity on the security studies of Edward Mead Earle and Nicholas Spykman.
Mr. X and the Prince of Darkness
A review of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, by Nicholas Thompson
New World Order
Kagan argues that, even during its formative years, America was never a modest, insular nation.
America’s Game
What is it about Roberto Clemente that makes him an American hero?
The Long Twilight Struggle
John Lewis Gaddis's evolving history of the Cold War.
Springtime in Paris
International peace and justice requires the sustained application of power and purpose that cannot be generated by the international community.
Wilson’s World
A review of a The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century, by Michael Mandelbaum
The Reluctant Empire
That Americans have so far avoided the imperial temptation is much to their credit, but this has not been without cost.
Small Wars, Big Deal
In the future, the United States likely will undertake smaller-scale military operations, in conjunction with intelligence-gathering units, law enforcement agencies, and the like, in order to prevent the equivalent of a big war, mass-casualty, and civilization-threatening attacks from occurring again on American soil.
Preparing for the War After the War on Terrorism
Why Americans should be concerned with the Quadrennial Defense Review
Balancing Act: How We Won the Cold War
How the United States won the Cold War
