Jeff Cox

Lawyer with a B.A. in National Security Policy Studies from Ohio State University. Independent military historian specializing in WWII, ancient history, and the Civil War.

Maybe Two Can Play at Putin's Game

“Irredentism” is the philosophy by which a state advocates the annexation of another state’s territory because of a common ethnicity or because of former possession of that territory. Perhaps

By Jeff Cox

April 29, 2014

The Jumbo Jet of Damocles

A famous ancient Greek legend holds that Dionysius II, the tyrant of the Sicilian Greek city of Syracuse (at a time when Sicily was ruled by Greeks and Carthaginians, and

By Jeff Cox

March 18, 2014

The Tangled Remnants of an Empire

If one wants to get a slight taste -- just a slight taste -- of those worried, hopeful days of 1989 when the Berlin Wall was coming down, murderous communist leaders like

By Jeff Cox

February 25, 2014

Sarvis Didn't Cost Cuccinelli the Virginia Governor's Race, Sex Did

You don’t need to be a highly-paid, highly-respected political analyst like Michael Barone or James Carville to understand basic truths about a particular election. In fact, it

By Jeff Cox

November 8, 2013

The Perils of Democracy: The Muslim Brotherhood and 1930's Germany

Reichstag in 1926 // Credit: German Federal Archives The Muslim Brotherhood are the bad guys. It’s a story that is now well-known. In 1932 the people of Germany were

By Jeff Cox

August 28, 2013

When The Free Market Fails to Serve Customers

Credit: cpsc.gov I have a lot of libertarian friends, including some of the extreme variety who believe that government should not even be providing things like police, fire, roads,

By Jeff Cox

August 7, 2013

Asian Foreign Policy May Be Doomed To Repeat History

USS Enterprise at Supic Bay // Credit: Dual Freq via Wikimedia Commons The 20th Century began with a rising power in Asia whose nakedly expansionist aspirations and increasing belligerence produced dark

By Jeff Cox

July 22, 2013

What Egypt Can Learn From The US Civil War

Egyptian citizens voting, many for the first time, in 2012 // Credit: Jonathan Rashad via Flickr It was 1864. The armies of the Confederacy were under heavy pressure. Having helped liberate

By Jeff Cox

July 2, 2013

Parties Offer A Poor Solution to Immigration Reform

Former Senator Rick Santorum // Credit: unitedliberty.org In a shining example of how even a blind squirrel can occasionally stumble across ACORN, former Pennsylvania senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum

By Jeff Cox

June 25, 2013

In Defense of Flip-Flopping

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) // Credit: skepticmoney.com If you’ve seen Leonidas and his Spartans in the movie 300, then you have a pretty decent idea of how the

By Jeff Cox

June 17, 2013