The domino theory, you know, if Vietnam goes, China, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.” As his yada yada channeling of impressionist Larry David suggests, there’s a lot of information covered by ...

The domino theory — the idea that setbacks can accumulate quickly and catastrophically — is one of the most controversial ideas in US foreign policy.

Still, if war comes, as seems likely, the demands of the domino theory could make it an odd one. Going in, the United States will know that everything it destroys in Iraq it will have to pay to ...

Fifty years after the communist victory in Vietnam, the old domino theory seems to have been definitively replaced by a deeper conflict determined by history, power, and geography.