Eland, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, takes a novel approach in evaluating each US President by grading their performance on their dedica
Presidents who claimed to limit government often actually did the opposite. History often looks unfavorably on presidents who may have actually contributed smart and important policies. Were Harding a
War and the Presidency: Restoring the Republic from Congressional Failure discusses the limited role for the presidency that our nation's founders envisioned and its evolution into an out-of-contr
Debunking numerous myths that have emerged about the world’s resources of oil, this book argues that the use of U.S. military power to secure oil is not only needless and costly—in both lives and mone
Delving into the concept ofthe United Statesas an empire, this investigation examines U.S. interventions around the world—from the Spanish-American War to the invasion of Iraq—
Eland, a senior fellow at the Institute, argues that occupied Iraq is now so thoroughly polarized that it should be divided into three or more parts with the U.S. withdrawing its military in order to
Eland, director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute, surveys the history of the struggle to control oil-supplies in the Middle East over the last hundred years, and debun
Evaluating presidents on the merits of whether their policies promoted peace, prosperity, and liberty, this ranking system takes a distinctly new approach. Historians and scholars have long tended to
This book examines the implications of counterinsurgency warfare for U.S. defense policy and makes the compelling argument that the United States' default position on counterinsurgency wars should be
