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Arthur Herman is working on his sixth book. His most recent work, Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed An Empire and Forged Our Age, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and chosen for The Washington Post's list of the Best Books of 2008. The paperback edition release date is May 2009. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World (2001) and To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (2005), which was nominated for the UK's prestigious Mountbatten Prize.
He comments frequently on military matters and foreign policy for Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, and Wall Street Journal Asia in addition to the New York Post, and on the air for Fox News Channel and CNN's Lou Dobbs.
Dr Herman's books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, French, and Portuguese.A former professor of history at Georgetown and George Mason Universities, he received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University.
Fifty years ago tonight, President John Kennedy took to the airwaves to tell the American people that the Soviets had based nuclear missiles in Cuba, and that in response, he would impose a naval blockade of the island... October 22, 2012
From Oped Columnists‘Know your enemy” is an old military adage. Now our Army wants to dump that invaluable advice when it comes to Islamic radicalism. That’s the only possible conclusion from the Army’s treatment of one of the most... October 17, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsSuppose you are sitting in the Chinese politburo in Beijing. Would you rather President Obama or Mitt Romney, who’s just declared that the era of American weakness abroad is over, win on Nov. 6? Well, you can do... October 10, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsIf you like airport security, just wait until the same folks get control of how we protect our power grid, nuclear plants and banking system from cyber attack. The Transit Security Administration is a notorious mess,... October 03, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsMost Americans know that in time of war, some national-security secrets need to stay secret. The old World War Two poster said it best: “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Yet some of the loosest lips these days are at the... September 08, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsMost of the commentary about Neil Armstrong’s death on Saturday celebrated his being the first man on the moon, and rightly so. I’d like to remember him, however, for what he did right here on earth. His life and... August 27, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsIf Americans think that our police action in Afghanistan is a war, they better think again. Not one, not two, but three red-hot situations are brewing around the world that could very well lead to real shooting wars,... August 23, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsIntroducing Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential pick on the battleship USS Wisconsin was meant as a tribute to Ryan’s home state. But the symbolism was fortuitous. The choice of Ryan sends a clear and distinct... August 20, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsIn this White House’s dealings with Israel, what a difference an election year makes. A year ago, the Obama administration had plainly brought America’s relationship with the Jewish state to its lowest point since... August 06, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsNews of our Olympic team’s uniforms being made in China has prompted Sen. Chuck Schumer and others to fulminate anew about exporting jobs. But the future’s going to look very different: It’s China that’s going to be... July 18, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsThe Obama administration has gone down on its well-worn knees and said “it was sorry for the loss” of 24 Pakistani soldiers accidentally killed in a Predator drone strike last November. This, after seven months of... July 09, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsOn Sunday, three Chinese astronauts manually docked their craft with the Tiangong 1 space module, which is due to be replaced by a permanent space station around 2020. Yes, China is just repeating achievements we’ve... June 27, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsOn June 4, 1942, a battle off Midway Island marked the dawn of the United States Navy as the most powerful sea force in the world. Seventy years later, a civilian “battle” may doom its reach and power for good. Then... June 04, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsOne crown jewel of the defense industry is about to shut its gates forever. Its closing should set off alarm bells about how long our military will remain the world’s best. Boeing’s fabled Wichita plant — where we... May 07, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsThe Obama administration’s obsession with “green energy” is pushing us toward a needless and costly trade war with China over solar panels — at a time when the US oil- and gas-boom offers a huge opportunity to vastly... April 10, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsAll the signs are that Staff Sgt. Robert Bales’ alleged shooting spree is hastening the US pullout from Afghanistan. This is tragic, because what’s at stake isn’t just whether that country becomes the tortured hostage... March 26, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsSo men and women who faced death at Fallujah or Kandahar or Desert Storm are now to face death panels at home? That’s the upshot of the administration’s plans for military health care. A proposal unveiled at the... March 07, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsPresident Obama will speak before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. Expect a lot of soothing words about how America’s relations... March 02, 2012
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From Oped ColumnistsThe build-up of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz took another big step this weekend, when the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln entered the Persian Gulf together with British and French naval escorts — defying Iran... January 25, 2012
From Oped ColumnistsLet’s stipulate three things about this video purportedly showing four Marines urinating on the bodies of their Taliban foes. First, we don’t know the whole story of how or why the video was made or even the context.... January 17, 2012
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From Oped ColumnistsFour years ago, Russians compared Vladimir Putin to Peter the Great. Now many are openly likening him to Leonid Brezhnev, the senile Soviet premier who had symbolized the broken-down and corrupt end-stage of Communism.... December 12, 2011
From Oped ColumnistsThe US strategic position in the Pacific is starting to look a lot like it did 70 years ago — on the eve of Pearl Harbor. Back in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt was determined to make an aggressive Asian rival... December 07, 2011
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From Oped ColumnistsA stunning revelation from a Wikileaks document dump shows President Obama badly bungling relations with our oldest democratic ally in Asia. In a September 2009 cable prior to Obama’s official visit to Tokyo, our... October 13, 2011
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From Oped ColumnistsThe coming US veto of a UN Security Council measure on Palestinian statehood this week raises the question, once again, of why the United States needs to stick its neck out to help Israel. Many forget that America’s pro... September 20, 2011
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