Mark Safranski

Mark Safranski commented on the post, Five Foreign Policy Problems the Next President Must Face, on the site Independent Voter Network 8 months, 3 weeks ago

hi Bob

it’s not a pretty situation and it depends also on *how* the Euro implodes. After WWII the major Western nations set up Bretton Woods to regulate exchange rates and it was easy to exclude the USSR […]
Mark Safranski wrote a new post, Five Foreign Policy Problems the Next President Must Face, on the site Election Center 8 months, 3 weeks ago

The 2012 campaign has largely been about the state of the economy and Republicans and Democrats trading body blows over partisan politics. Despite an ongoing war in Afghanistan and clamoring calls for […]
Mark Safranski wrote a new post, Five Foreign Policy Problems the Next President Must Face, on the site Independent Voter Network 8 months, 3 weeks ago

The 2012 campaign has largely been about the state of the economy and Republicans and Democrats trading body blows over partisan politics. Despite an ongoing war in Afghanistan and clamoring calls for […]
Mark Safranski wrote a new post, Debt Traps, Defense and the Danger of Decline, on the site Independent Voter Network 9 months, 1 week ago

Traditionally, in American politics, questions of budget deficits and national debt were seen as purely domestic issues that only had ancillary effects on foreign policy. The situation today is different: […]
Mark Safranski wrote a new post, Competition in the Age of Frenemies, on the site Independent Voter Network 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Ideology is being replaced by realpolitik in the world political arena, with competition and cooperation between frenemies perhaps becoming the norm. The war on terror began on September 11, 2001 in New York […]
Mark Sanfranski commented on the post, Putin’s Geopolitical Realism on Syria, on the site Independent Voter Network 10 months, 1 week ago

Hi Bob

There would gave to be a real air campaign based from carriers, NATO bases and/or Israel to shut down Syrian air defenses and command and control at least as significant as what we did over Kosovo-Serbia […]
Mark Sanfranski wrote a new post, Putin’s Geopolitical Realism on Syria, on the site Independent Voter Network 10 months, 1 week ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a foreign policy speech to Russia’s ambassadors and Foreign Ministry officials that is very much worth reading in context of his dispatch to Syria of a fleet of warships, […]
Mark Sanfranski wrote a new post, The Coming National Defense Crack-Up, on the site Independent Voter Network 10 months, 2 weeks ago

National defense has yet to become a major campaign issue in 2012 despite the fact that the next president will face a perfect storm of scandal, budgetary crisis and strategic dilemmas that America has not seen […]
Mark Sanfranski commented on the post, The Coming National Defense Crack-Up, on the site Independent Voter Network 10 months, 4 weeks ago

Hi Faith

Occupying Iraq was extremely expensive.

Making Afghanistan expensive was also policy choice ( or rather a series of choices) when we decided to create a strategy that hinged on building a national […]
Mark Safranski wrote a new post, The Coming National Defense Crack-Up, on the site Election Center 10 months, 4 weeks ago

National defense has yet to become a major campaign issue in 2012 despite the fact that the next president will face a perfect storm of scandal, budgetary crisis and strategic dilemmas that America has not seen […]
Mark Sanfranski posted an update 11 months ago

I will have an article coming out on drones and cyberwar in the next issue of Pragati magazine ( India’s National Interest)
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