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 ...

First came Sputnik and "the missile gap," followed by Vietnam, Soviet nuclear parity, and the Japanese economic challenge--a cascade of decline encapsulated by Yale historian Paul Kennedy's 1987 ...

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 ...

By 2003 peacekeeping was surging once more, but new fears of overstretch began to mount. “In August 2000, there were 17 UN peacekeeping operations under way with a total of about 48,000 personnel.

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 ...

The threat of America becoming a victim of its imperial overstretch, though not a worry at present, will continue looming over US foreign policymakers. Should the US economy suffer a shock in future, ...

MEDICAL graduates starting their first hospital jobs today are being warned not to overstretch their skills. The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS), which provides legal support ...