First, “geographic overstretch” occurs, al Maqdisi says, “when a guerilla force carries out a military advance…and attempts to establish control over recently acquired territories by setting up fixed ...

Twenty-nine years ago, historian Paul Kennedy coined the term "imperial overstretch" to describe what happens to great powers when their global commitments become too expensive to sustain. He also ...

Italy and Spain can resolve their debt problems without outside help, European Central Bank policymaker Jens Weidmann said on Tuesday, rejecting growing pressure for the ECB to act as a lender of ...

Lagos State government has expressed concern over the increasing pressure on its healthcare facilities due to the high number of patients from the ...

CONSERVATIVE governments often find a reason to take pot shots at the BBC. Usually, it is the supposed left-wing bias of the publicly funded broadcaster that gets it into trouble. Now, however, it ...

Ministers have feuded increasingly publicly with the head of the army, Eyal Zamir, in recent days, over issues from Netanyahu’s plan to take over Gaza, which senior military officials fear will ...

China’s “Project of the Century” may not last another decade. In late 2013, Chinese ruler Xi Jinping announced the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk ...

The popular narrative about China today resembles that of the Soviet Union in the early 1970s. Then, Americans believed they had to accommodate Moscow. Within two decades, however, the Soviet ...

This is imperial overstretch. It is unsustainable. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.