Matthew Crosston
03.04.2015
American UAV Apartheid and the ‘Blowback’ of New Drone Armies
It is perhaps a misnomer to discuss future ‘blowback:’ there have been groups actively pursuing technological attacks on American targets…
15.03.2015
Ethics, Law, and the Changing Drone Landscape
Perhaps the most striking thing when reviewing the impressive literature that examines drone conflict and international law is just how…
22.02.2015
America’s National Security Schizophrenia: Damning Russia with ‘Partnership’
There is no stronger example of the schizophrenic nature of American foreign policy toward Russia than comparing statements written in…
14.02.2015
Cold War Triumphalism and Chicken-and-Egg Dilemmas
There is a decided chicken-and-egg quality when trying to unravel Russian-American relations. The general pessimism and pejorative characterizations that come…
05.02.2015
Keeping Russia the Enemy: Congressional Attitudes and Biased Expertise
America seems reluctant in accepting the fairly benign fact that countries do not like to be dictated to and thus…
01.02.2015
US-Russia Relations: The Problem of Intellectual Insincerity
There are numerous think tanks, both in the United States and Russia, which are deeply concerned about the state of…
18.01.2015
Islamism and the Exploitation of Women
The events in Paris are unfortunately all too familiar in the 21st century. I think in some corners it is…
06.01.2015
The Saudi Bait-and-Switch: Incurring Short-term Pain for Long-term Gain
Western media members are currently basking in what to them seems to be a story of economic ‘come-uppance.’ Saudi Arabia…
22.12.2014
Old American Punishment, New Russian Strength: The Unintended Consequences
On December 18 President Vladimir Putin gave his traditional end-of-year holiday speech. Think of it as a Russian version of…
15.12.2014
American Duplicity and Twisting in Our Own Tortured Noose
So the United States Senate has released its report highlighting extreme and supposedly ‘abhorrent’ techniques used on terrorist targets after…
08.12.2014
Prisoners of Preconception – The Problems of Bias in American Intelligence
Anyone who has worked through post-mortems on the Iraq war is familiar with the pitfalls associated with ‘groupthink’ and preconceptions.…
26.11.2014
Bears and Byzantium: How America Misreads Russian Grand Strategy
Common complaints within Intelligence Studies about the examination of foreign intelligence communities, especially those not residing in the west, run…
