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Louis René Beres

Louis René Beres
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Louis René Beres was educated at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971), and is the author of many books, monographs, and scholarly articles dealing with various legal and military aspects of  nuclear strategy. In Israel, he was Chair of Project Daniel (PM Sharon, 2003). Over the past years, he has published extensively on nuclear warfare issues in the Harvard National Security Journal (Harvard Law School); Yale Global Online (Yale University); JURIST; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs; The Atlantic; The Washington Times; US News & World Report; Special Warfare (Pentagon); Parameters: Journal of the US Army War College (Pentagon); The New York Times; The Hill; The Jerusalem Post; and Oxford University Press. His twelfth book,  published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield, is titled: Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy.

 

Emptiness and consciousness: Still unseen limits of American politics

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Nowadays, in the midst of near-perpetual scandal, both Democrats and Republicans are variously criticized for failing to fix a beleaguered country. But America’s core problems are not remediable in politics. By itself, no American...
Kim and Trump shaking hands at the red carpet during the DPRK–USA Singapore Summit by Shealah Craighead. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Toward a Second North Korean Summit: Adjusting US Expectations

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Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is still very difficult." (Carl von Clausewitz, On War) Donald Trump plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sometime toward the end of February. From...
U.S. President Donald Trump. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

With Trump, ‘the times, they are a changin

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The times are changing. In 1960, when I was still in high school, John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. Immediately and intelligently, the new president challenged an entire generation of...

Fearful Continuities From Goebbels To Trump

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“Intellect rots the brain.” Joseph Goebbels, Third Reich Minister of Propaganda “I love the poorly educated“ Donald J. Trump, Candidate for President of the United States One should hesitate to make any such fearful comparisons, but if truth...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany in 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Trump and Destruction of the American Mind

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An open loathing of intellect has become substantially de rigeur for Donald Trump and his supporters. Accordingly, the nation’s chief executive regards terms like “intellectual” or “analytic” as epithets rather than positive attributes or prospectively gainful...
Marwan Barghouti (left) with Yasser Arafat. Photo: IDF.

How Saving Israel from Terrorism Could Save the World

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For Islamist and jihadist fighters around the world — ISIS, Hamas, it generally makes little actual difference — terrorism represents a sacred form of religious sacrifice. The underlying purpose of this murderous ethos is...
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Intellect and politics: Trumpian opposites

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"All our dignity," observed Blaise Pascal back in the 17th century, "consists in thought... Let us labor then to think well: this is the foundation of morality." To be sure, this simple truth is being...
Photo: AST-15-002 | by U.S. Missile Defense Agency

Synergistic perils for Israel, 2019

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Our eighth grade geometry teachers were not always correct. One very conspicuous “axiomatic” error was contained in stipulating postulates that ignored “synergy,” because the expected “whole” of certain global intersections could sometimes prove substantially...
Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian Vice President Mike Pence delivers remarks at a "Tax Cuts to Put America First" event

‘America First’ is a deepening policy error

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In the seventeenth century, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes warned against anarchy in world politics, conditions that he associated with a devastating “war of all against all” (bellum omnium contra omnes).Appearing in his book Leviathan,...
Flag of jihad flying in Rotterdam, 2014, photo by Wouter Engler via Wikimedia Commons

Terrorism as Power over Death

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Opposing terrorism, especially jihadist terror, has become a continuous security obligation of the US, Europe, and of course Israel. Still, too little serious analytic attention has been directed towards identifying remedies for...