Saideman's Semi-Spew

Yesterday, I was on an APSA roundtable with the sharpest minds on US civil-military relations (I did feel like playing the old Sesame street...

Since Trump returned to power, I have been talking a lot about the broken transmission belt of policy.*  In ordinary times, if a person, fir...

Bargaining with someone of bad faith is likely to go badly.  So, yeah, the US-Canada trade relations were most fraught.*  Because Trump can...

The lighting always sucks in this part of DND, but this is only place we can do this.  One of the highlights of every year is the Canadian D...

 I keep hearing about the threat of hypersonic missiles, and I keep wondering how this changes things?  My bias: I am a big believer in mutu...

Not to worry, Robin, for we have multiple Bat-cakes to meet the occasion.  This week, I am celebrating 60 years of ... me.  I have always us...

 A couple of weeks ago, I got into a running skeet spat because I argued we ought not valorize a military member for protesting the Trump ad...

NATO issued a six paragraph communique https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resources/official-texts/2026/07/08/the-ankara-su...