C Dale Walton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6189501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Dale Walton |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Dale |
| FAMILY NAME | Walton |
| SIGNATURE | WALTON C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6025-1552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 49 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
China After Mao
From nuclear weapons to global security
Pivotal Poland
AI and Early Warning Systems
Black Sea battleground
End times
End times: Elites, counter-elites, and the path of political disintegration." Comparative Strategy, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsC. Dale WaltonC. Dale Walton ([email protected]) is a professor of international relations and Hammond Institute senior fellow at Lindenwood University. His is the author of numerous works, including the books The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam (2002); …
The polar pivot
The polar pivot: Great power competition in the artic and Antarctica." Comparative Strategy, 42(1), pp. 171–172 Additional informationNotes on contributorsC. Dale WaltonC. Dale Walton ([email protected]) is a professor of international relations and Hammond Institute senior fellow at Lindenwood University. His is the author of numerous works, including the books The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam (2002); Geopolitics and the Great Po…
China’s Good War
China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism." Comparative Strategy, 42(3), pp. 464–465 Additional informationNotes on contributorsC. Dale WaltonC. Dale Walton ([email protected]) is a professor of international relations and Hammond Institute senior fellow at Lindenwood University. He is the author of numerous works, including the books The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam (2002); Geopolitics and the Great Powers i…
US-China nuclear relations
US-China nuclear relations: The impact of strategic triangles." Comparative Strategy, 41(1), pp. 121–122
Kevin Rudd, The avoidable war
Kevin Rudd, The avoidable war: The dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China." Comparative Strategy, 41(5), pp. 510–511
The light that failed
Superpower interrupted
Superpower interrupted: The Chinese history of the world, Michael Schuman." Comparative Strategy, 40(1), pp. 100–101
U.S.-Czech Missile Defense Cooperation
U.S.-Czech Missile Defense Cooperation: Alliance Politics in Action." Comparative Strategy, 40(3), p. 339
We have been harmonized
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has undergone two tectonic shifts since the mid-1970s. First, a brutal scramble for factional power unfolded following Mao Zedong’s death in 1976. This ultimately
Pathfinder
No one and no institution can operate “beyond culture.”Colin S. Gray1There is no place for strategic culture in an intellectual world of indistinguishable billiard balls. In that rarified space, cu
The Russia Trap
The Russia Trap: How our shadow war with Russia could spiral into catastrophe." Comparative Strategy, 39(2), pp. 219–220
Putin’s world
The grid
The grid: The fraying wires between Americans and our energy future." Comparative Strategy, 39(1), pp. 110–111
The Cultural Revolution
One of the most horrific major events of human history only ended in the mid-1970s; to say that it is within living memory is to profoundly understate its ongoing social reality. Huge numbers of cu
Maoism
In Western discussions of the Cold War and the ideologies that shaped its character and course, Maoism generally is treated as little more than an oddity: a curious Marxist variant developed by a c
The official history of the UK strategic nuclear deterrent, vol. I
The official history of the UK strategic nuclear deterrent, vol. I: From the V-bomber era to the arrival of Polaris, 1945–64." Comparative Strategy, 37(1), pp. 85–86
Nuclear South Asia
South Asia may be the region in which the current Second Nuclear Age meets its end, giving way to a Third Nuclear Age defined by the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945. Recent events related t
The demon of geopolitics
Major General Karl Haushofer was, as the distinguished scholar Holger H. Herwig demonstrates throughout this engrossing examination of the man and his influence, a deeply contradictory figure who
The American Revolution, 1760–1790
The American Revolution, 1760–1790: New nation as new empire." Comparative Strategy, 36(5), pp. 479–480
Defence planning and uncertainty
Defence planning and uncertainty: Planning for the next Asia–Pacific war." Comparative Strategy, 35(2), pp. 176–177
The Case for Strategic Traditionalism
Liberal peacemaking and peacebuilding are an inherently dangerous enterprise, which should be approached with great caution. This was demonstrated by numerous problematic liberal peacebuilding efforts in the 1990s and 2000s, events that underlined the view that there has been no fundamental global change in attitudes toward the use of violence for the attainment of political ends. As a result, Western leaders are likely to be much less inclined t…
Victory through Villainization
Although international war crimes law as such is a relatively recent development, claims that one's enemy has stepped outside the accepted boundaries of warfare have occurred throughout recorded history. In the last few decades, however, the globalization of media, the development of ever-cheaper digital recording devices, and other social and technological trends have allowed war crimes accusations to become an increasingly potent tool which ins…
Coping With Anarchy
(2002). Coping With Anarchy: Interstate Violence and the Character of American Foreign Policy. Comparative Strategy: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 417-427
Beyond China
(2002). Beyond China: The Geopolitics of Eastern Eurasia. Comparative Strategy: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 203-212
Catastrophic Errors
(2002). Catastrophic Errors: Totalitarian Ideology in the 20th Century. Comparative Strategy: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 115-119
The West and Its Antagonists
Victor Davis Hanson, An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism (New York: Anchor Books, 2002) Roger Scruton, The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002)
The Strategist in Context
Michael I. Handel, Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought, 3rd rev. and expanded edition, London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2001, 482+xxvii pages.Azar Gat, A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 890+xvi pages
The Geography of Universal Empire
During the period that Sir Halford Mackinder dubbed the Columbian epoch, maritime exploration and imperial expansion resulted in one of the most significant political developments in history—the creation of a truly global international system. This paper argues that a Columbian “revolution in strategic perspective” occurred in Europe, and that this in turn provided the European great powers a critical advantage over polities which did not rapidly…
Not Only Islamism
While today's global war on terrorism is focused on Islamist organizations, in coming decades we should expect the vast proliferation of terrorist groups with an enormous variety of ideologies and goals. The pressures created by rapid technological, social, and other change will create fertile conditions for the growth of new radical movements. Whether (and, if so, how) the great powers choose to use terrorists against each other will be one of t…
A Review of “Christopher Coker, The Warrior Ethos
In The Warrior Ethos: Military Culture and the War on Terror, Christopher Coker grapples with some very tricky questions. The book is a philosophical meditation that ranges over a very broad territ
Colin S. Gray, War, Peace and International Relations
War, Peace and International Relations authoritatively fills a major gap in the textbook market. As its title states, it provides an introduction to strategic history, and it does so in a coherent
A Review of “Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony
Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony is an extraordinarily ambitious book, as it endeavors to provide an overarching context to the last five hundred years of strategic history. Fortunately, Jer
The Case for Strategic Traditionalism
Liberal peacemaking and peacebuilding are an inherently dangerous enterprise, which should be approached with great caution. This was demonstrated by numerous problematic liberal peacebuilding efforts in the 1990s and 2000s, events that underlined the view that there has been no fundamental global change in attitudes toward the use of violence for the attainment of political ends. As a result, Western leaders are likely to be much less inclined t…
A Review of “Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
A Review of “Naval Warfare, 1919–1945
A Review of “Independence
"A Review of "Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free"." Comparative Strategy, 31(5), p. 476 Notes 1. Richard Ferling, Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free (New York: Bloomsbury, 2011), p. 1
A Review of “Eisenhower in War and Peace”
A Review of “The Essential Herman Kahn
Herman Kahn was one of most imaginative—and one of the most misunderstood and popularly vilified—thinkers of the Cold War era. He was ready to, as the title of one of best-known works advertised, t
A Review of “In the Name of the Nation
A Review of “Theorist of Maritime Strategy
One of the coincidences of strategic history is the fact that the two most prominent naval theorists produced by the Anglosphere were contemporaries, one British and the other American. During his
Victory through Villainization
Although international war crimes law as such is a relatively recent development, claims that one's enemy has stepped outside the accepted boundaries of warfare have occurred throughout recorded history. In the last few decades, however, the globalization of media, the development of ever-cheaper digital recording devices, and other social and technological trends have allowed war crimes accusations to become an increasingly potent tool which ins…
A Review of “Talking to Terrorists
A Review of “The Historical Origins of Terrorism in America, 1644–1880”
The history of every long-extant polity includes a multitude of historical events that are so obscure that even most of its well-educated citizens are, at most, dimly aware of them. The reason for
Defence planning and uncertainty
Defence planning and uncertainty: Planning for the next Asia–Pacific war." Comparative Strategy, 35(2), pp. 176–177
The official history of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Vol. I
In the introduction to this first volume of his history of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), author Michael S. Goodman slyly notes that, “[a]n Official Historian is perhaps one of the strange
You run the show or the show runs you
You run the show or the show runs you: Capturing Professor Harold W. Rood's strategic thought for a new generation." Comparative Strategy, 35(1), pp. 89–90
Nuclear proliferation and the psychology of political leadership
Nuclear proliferation and the psychology of political leadership." Comparative Strategy, 35(2), pp. 177–178
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