Technology transfer

The very heart of the darkness is the Soviet Union and from that heart comes a different sound. It is the whirring sound of machinery and the whisper of the computer technology we ourselves have sold them. —Ronald Reagan. Speech to the Fourth Annual Conservative...

Winning the peace

Executions The tyrant who started the war should be tried and executed. His henchmen who committed murder should be dealt with likewise. This precedent, set by the Nuremburg trials, should be followed whenever a tyranny is defeated in war. National punishment In 1982...

The rights of insurgents and terrorists

The Geneva Conventions are contracts between sovereign peoples stipulating how they will treat each other’s people during war. They accord with natural justice because they are entirely reciprocal. Accordingly any attempt to convert them from a contract between...

Retribution

Collective responsibility The person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril; and … is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence...

Target the tyrant

Tyrants are responsible for wars and should be the foremost target for lethal attack. The story of Wellington prohibiting his artillery from targeting Bonaparte at Waterloo, if true, demonstrates misguided chivalry. Indeed, had Bonaparte been executed in 1814 instead...