THE RE-EMERGING THREAT OF RUSSIAN AGGRESSION:  THE REAL DANGER OF RUSSIA'S RESURGENCE AS A MAJOR WORLD POWER CAPABLE OF CHALLENGING THE MILITARY & FOREIGN POLICY GOALS OF THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES -- THE RUSSIAN MILITARY INCURSION INTO GRUZIA (GEORGIA) AS A SIGN OF WHAT LIES AHEAD IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- HOW RUSSIA'S OIL EXPORTS & ECONOMIC BOOM HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE REVIVAL OF RUSSIA AS A MILITARY THREAT -- WHAT MUST BE DONE TO PROTECT AMERICA & ITS ALLIES FROM THIS THREAT

ENERGY GEOPOLITICS & THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF GRUZIA:  PRESERVING THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION'S MONOPOLY OF CASPIAN-REGION NATURAL GAS EXPORTS -- THE INVASION AS RUSSIA'S RESPONSE TO GRUZIA'S PLAN TO ALLOW OPERATION ON ITS TERRITORY OF A NATURAL GAS PIPELINE THAT RUSSIA WOULD NOT CONTROL -- HOW THE RUSSIAN MOVE AFFECTS THE INTERESTS OF MEMBER-STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION -- HOW AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS ARE AFFECTED

FACTIONAL DIVISION WITHIN THE CHECHEN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT:  IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT BETWEEN CHECHEN NATIONALISTS & ISLAMISTS -- WHAT THE OBJECTIVE OF THE CHECHEN RESISTANCE SHOULD BE:  ACHIEVEMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT & POLITICALLY STABLE CHECHEN STATE MODELED AFTER WESTERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES & INTEGRATED INTO A FREE & PEACEFUL WORLD, OR TOTAL VICTORY IN A GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD TO DESTROY THE WEST & ACHIEVE ISLAMIST WORLD DOMINATION IN A WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC CALIPHATE -- A COMPARISON BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY JIHADISTS & THE BOLSHEVIKS OF AN EARTIER ERA

THE ROLE OF ENERGY IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:  RUSSIA & THE GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY -- ENERGY AS THE KEY VARIABLE IN THE COLLAPSE OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION & THE RE-EMERGENCE OF RUSSIA AS A WORLD POWER -- THE FAILURE OF THE U.S.A. TO LEARN & PROFIT FROM THE RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE -- THE FOLLY & DANGER OF AMERICA'S CURRENT NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY, A POLICY DICTATED BY THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY & AGENDA OF THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS -- THE URGENT NEED FOR AMERICANS TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY

OPTIMISM VERSUS REALISM IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:  DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS' DISMISSAL OF REALISM & THEIR ADOPTION OF THE MOST OPTIMISTIC ASSESSMENTS OF AMERICA'S ADVERSARIES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- THE GREAT DANGER OF BIUILDING U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY ON THE ASSUMPTION OF AN ADVERSARY'S SINCERITY & GOOD WILL -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. TO PREPARE FOR THE WORST & CONDUCT BOTH DIPLOMACY & MILITARY PLANNING SIMULTANEOUSLY -- HOW THE DEMOCRATS CONFLATE FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS WITH ADVOCACY & LIBERAL IDEOLOGY, SHORTCHANGE MILITARY PREPARATIONS, & UNDERMINE CONTAINMENT & DETERRENCE OF U.S. ENEMIES

THE U.S.A., RUSSIA, CHINA, & IRAN:  IRAN'S EFFORTS TO BECOME A NUCLEAR POWER & THE INTEREST OF THE U.S.A. IN BLOCKING ACHIEVEMENT OF THAT OBJECTIVE -- HOW & WHY RUSSIA & CHINA ARE UNDERCUTTING THE U.S. ENDEAVOR TO PREVENT IRAN FROM ACQUIRING & ENRICHING URANIUM -- UNILATERALISM VERSUS MULTILATERALISM IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY REGARDING IRAN -- REALISM VERSUS MULTILATERALISM IN U.S. FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY -- THE NEED FOR U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY LEADERS TO BE REALISTIC & AVOID CONFUSING REALISM WITH IDEALISM

AMERICA'S RISING ENERGY & TRANSPORTATION COSTS -- THE CAUSES:  (1) CORRUPT & AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL REGIMES IN PETROLEUM PRODUCING FOREIGN COUNTRIES & THE IMPACT OF THEIR POLICIES & TACTICS ON THE WORLD'S OIL & NATURAL GAS SUPPLIES; (2) THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT IN THE U.S.A. & ITS INFLUENCE ON U.S. ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; & (3) POLITICALLY PARTISAN DEMOCRATS IN THE U.S. CONGRESS & THE OBSTACLES THEY ARE CREATING TO INCREASED U.S. DOMESTIC PETROLEUM PRODUCTION.

RUSSIAN FEDERATION PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN'S POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST: WHERE DOES THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT STAND IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMISM & THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM?  ARE RUSSIA & THE U.S.A. INCREASINGLY UNITED BY COMMON VALUES?  IS RUSSIA REALLY A PARTNER IN THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM?  OR, HAS THE KREMLIN BECOME AN IMPEDIMENT TO THE FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMIST TERROR & TO U.S. EFFORTS TO PROMOTE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  HOW RUSSIA'S ACTIONS VIS-A-VIS THE MIDDLE EAST CAST DOUBT ON RUSSIAN MOTIVATIONS?

ENEMY ESPIONAGE:  A CONTINUING PROBLEM FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES -- AMERICA'S OLD ENEMIES IN THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT & ESPIONAGE APPARATUS CONTINUE TO SEND INTELLIGENCE AGENTS TO PENETRATE U.S. & ALLIED MILITARY, INTELLIGENCE, & FOREIGN POLICY AGENCIES & TO OBTAIN HIGHLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION POTENTIALLY DAMAGING TO U.S. NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY -- RUSSIA'S CURRENT POLICY:  PASS THE INFORMATION ON TO AMERICA'S NEW ENEMIES IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST, WITH THE INTENT OF WEAKENING & UNDERMINING THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES -- RELATED PROBLEM:  WEAKNESSES WITHIN THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION & THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

ISRAEL, AZERBAIJAN, & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA:  THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL & AZERBAIJAN -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PARTNERSHIP & ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA -- HOW FAR ARE AZERBAIJANI ELITES WILLING TO PURSUE TIES WITH ISRAEL? WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF THE BAKU-JERUSALEM RELATIONSHIP TO AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS?

A HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  THE COLD WAR & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE ROLE OF THE KGB IN THE SOVIET UNION'S ENDEAVOR TO GAIN INFLUENCE IN & CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST & USE IT TO UNDERMINE & CONQUER THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- HOW & WHY THE KGB'S EFFORTS ENDED LARGELY IN FAILURE -- IN WHAT WAY DID THE EFFORTS SUCCEED?

THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD & THE CHECHEN INSURGENCY:  HOW THE ISLAMISTS HAVE CO-OPTED THE CHECHEN CAUSE AS THEIR OWN & ARE USING IT IN THE DEADLY WAR THEY ARE WAGING AGAINST THE WEST -- THE U.S.A. & EUROPE SLOWLY REALIZING THE REPERCUSSIONS OF HUNDREDS OF BATTLE-HARDENED JIHADISTS JUST THREE HOURS BY PLANE FROM WESTERN EUROPE -- DISTANCE NO LONGER A GUARANTEE OF IMMUNITY FROM TERROR -- THE HIGH COST OF LEAVING THE PROBLEM OF CHECHNYA UNADDRESSED

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION & THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE PRO-ISRAELI POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN -- THE BROADER RUSSIAN-ISRAELI RELATIONSHIP, THE PUTIN DOCTRINE REGARDING RUSSIAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & THE THREAT OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM, & THE DIRECTION IN WHICH RUSSIA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY IS TILTING

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TWO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS HELD IN LATE 2004, THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER & THE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN DECEMBER:  HOW THE REELECTION OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IN THE U.S.A. & THE VICTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO IN THE UKRAINE SIGNIFY THE END OF THE ERA OF LEFTIST POLITICAL ASCENDANCY

THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO:  THE SOVIET UNION'S CONCENTRATION CAMPS AS ONE OF THE MAJOR MASS TRAGEDIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- WHY WE NEED TO STUDY, KNOW, & UNDERSTAND THIS CHAPTER IN THE RECENT HISTORY OF HUMANKIND

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION GOVERNMENT -- A BRUTAL & DOUBLE-DEALING POLITICAL REGIME THAT CANNOT BE TRUSTED

UKRAINE -- A RELIABLE PARTNER, OR A PERIL TO THE WESTERN WORLD?

THE BALTIC STATES -- CANDIDATES FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION

RUSSIAN MOBSTERS, INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, & WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT'S "PRAGMATIC" APPROACH TO SADDAM HUSSEIN & IRAQ -- A POLICY AT ODDS WITH AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS

UNITED STATES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF RUSSIA -- A MISTAKEN & MISDIRECTED POLICY

THE REGIME OF LEONID KUCHMA IN THE UKRAINE -- DEVELOPING TOTALITARIAN TRENDS IN HIS OWN COUNTRY & AIDING & ABETTING FOREIGN ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A.

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