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China's hypersonic gliders are clever, and problematic.

The Taliban is now facing a civil war with the Islamic State in Afghanistan. It's going to be a long one.

Chinese real estate, moral hazards, and the dozen years it took Murff to be right.

France is in grand furie over the Australian nuclear submarines. Of course it's our fault.

Whether we left 10 years ago, or stayed another 20, this was always going to happen. It didn't have to happen like this.

In which Murff covers the plausible theory that early hominids came out of the trees in search of nothing less than happy hour. It’s...

After 20 years and $2 trillion, the US is quitting Afghanistan in roughly the same place we found it.

Zersetzung! The East German art of sowing chaos and discord. As a tactic, it still has its fans.

After nine years of civil war, Libya has a national interim government. Will this one stick? Do they ever stick as well as we remember?