Foreign Policy: Morality of War

Op-Eds

Our Self-crippled Policy Encouraged the Deadly Embassy Attacks [Foxnews.com]

Galt Goes Global [Foreignpolicy.com]

Our Self-Crippled War

What We Owe Our Soldiers

What We Owe Our Soldiers

Morality of War Op-Ed Archive

 

Press Releases

Safeguarding Afghanis More Important Than American Lives?

U.S. Should Help Crush Hamas

Bush's Pro-Democracy Strategy Is Pro-Terrorism

America's Soldiers Deserve Better

Islamic Totalitarianism's Threat to Civilization

Morality of War Press Release Archive

 

Letters to the Editor

Not Attacking Iran Would Be Catastrophic

Immoral Rules of Engagement

An Illegitimate Standard of "Legitimacy"

Attack on Iran Consistent with Ayn Rand's Philosophy

Attacking Iran Is Not an "Act of Madness"

Morality of War Letters Archive

 

Articles

“End States Who Sponsor Terrorism”, by Leonard Peikoff.

Neoconservative Foreign Policy: An Autopsy, by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein, published in the Summer 2007 issue of The Objective Standard.

“Just War Theory” vs. American Self-Defense, by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein, published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Objective Standard.

 

Video & Audio

The Road to 9/11: How America's Selfless Policies Unleashed the Jihadists
By Elan Journo (video lecture)

Democracy vs. Victory: Why the "Forward Strategy of Freedom" Had to Fail
By Yaron Brook (video lecture)

America's Foreign Policy: Self-Interest vs. Self-Sacrifice
By Peter Schwartz (video lecture)

The Morality of War
By Yaron Brook (video lecture)

America vs. Americans
By Leonard Peikoff (video lecture)

9/11—One Year Later: Why America Is Losing the War!
By Yaron Brook (video lecture)

New Book from ARI

Winning the Unwinnable War

Winning the Unwinnable War is a provocative new book from the Ayn Rand Institute that offers principled and compelling answers to the problems and confusions that plague American foreign policy. Years after 9/11 and in the shadow of two protracted U.S. military campaigns in the Middle East, the enemy is not only undefeated but emboldened and resurgent. What went wrong—and what should we do going forward? This book is available now for immediate shipping from the Ayn Rand Bookstore.

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Ayn Rand on Foreign Policy

The Foreign Policy of a Mixed Economy (audio lecture)

Capitalism vs. Communism (video interview)

Global Balkanization (audio lecture)

The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus (audio lecture)

The Wreckage of the Consensus (audio lecture)

 

Commentary from Other Sources

From time to time, ARC posts commentary from outside sources that we think may be of interest to our readers. Please note that the following items were not produced by ARC and do not necessarily reflect our views. For commentary by ARC writers, please see the Op-Eds, Articles, Press Releases and Video & Audio sections of this page.

“Gifts from Heaven”: The Meaning of the American Victory over Japan, 1945
By John David Lewis
The Objective Standard, Winter 2007-2008

 

Related Items from the Ayn Rand Bookstore

The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America
By Peter Schwartz

The Foreign Policy and Terrorism Collection
a collection of ARI Lecture Series talks

The Jihad Against the West: The Real Threat and the Right Response
with featured speakers Daniel Pipes, Yaron Brook, Flemming Rose, Robert Spencer, Peter Schwartz and John Lewis

The Rise of Totalitarian Islam
By Yaron Brook

America vs. Death-Worship
By Harry Binswanger

The Meaning of Victory: 1945
By John Lewis

Defensor Patriae: The Homeland Defense in History
By John Lewis

 

 

"We do need a policy based on long-range principles, i.e., an ideology. But a revision of our foreign policy, from its basic premises on up, is what today's anti-ideologists dare not contemplate. The worse its results, the louder our public leaders proclaim that our foreign policy is bipartisan."

—Ayn Rand

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