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Martin Sieff is a book author, consultant and former foreign editor.
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1814 or 1914? The Fateful Choice in 2014
By Martin Sieff, July 4, 2014 in Global HotSpots
The surprising way in which historical choices present themselves in cycles that are 100 years apart.
America's False Middle East Prophet
By Martin Sieff, June 30, 2014 in Global HotSpots
Venerated Fouad Ajami built his true legacy on falsehoods and foolishness.
Who Lost Iraq? Inside an American Battle
By Martin Sieff, June 25, 2014 in Rethinking America
Why are the U.S. media not holding U.S. officials responsible for Iraq's destruction?
The British Empire's Lesson for Modern America
By Martin Sieff, May 28, 2014 in Global Pairings
Why the U.S. strategy to remake Afghanistan after 9/11 was bound to fail.
Three Myths About the Middle East
By Martin Sieff, April 8, 2014 in Global HotSpots
No, the region isn't the source of all evil.
Obama's Whitewashed History
By Martin Sieff, April 3, 2014 in Global Pairings
Putin is no saint, but he simply revived Russia's own version of the U.S. Monroe Doctrine.
Russia: Pushing Back at the United States
Looking at Russia's recent actions in a historical context.
Churchill: Architect of Catastrophe, 1914
By Martin Sieff, February 22, 2014 in Global Pairings
How a legendary politician needlessly took Britain into a continental war in 1914.
Moltke: Architect of Catastrophe, 1914
How one general accidentally plunged Germany into a ruinous war in 1914.
Alternate History: Had King Lived
By Martin Sieff, January 25, 2014 in Rethinking America, Globalist Perspective
Imagining the America and the World that Martin Luther King could have built.