China, notes Daniel Green in The Mercury, “fields the largest navy in the world and the largest missile force on the planet.” It’s also “the world’s fastest growing nuclear power.” What to do? Certainly not the rhetorically impressive but empty “integrated deterrence” of the Joe Biden Administration. Securing peace, urges Green, requires preparing across the board for conflict: increasing the size of the armed forces, building far more missiles and ships, and reindustrializing North America.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.
