“I call it the madman theory, Bob,” the incoming president said in 1968, according to Haldeman’s memoirs, published a decade later. Outlining his strategy to convince communist North Vietnam ...

Miller, of course, is aware that Trump’s intention, always, is to shock, to play the madman, and thus frighten his rivals and alter the terms of the debate. Maybe, just maybe, it will all ...

The ‘madman’ formulation in deterrence theory, predicated on uncertainty and irrationality, was postulated by American academics and analysts in the early decades of the Cold War.

Protesters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post). Donald Trump might seem like a madman. But it turns out that might be a good thing — at least for the moment.

Roseanne McManus, an associate professor of political science at Penn State University, says the modern version of the so-called "Madman Theory" or "Madman Strategy" was outlined in the late 1950s ...

By the time Jeffrey is back in his Kansas, as it were, he and his sweetheart (Dern) are marveling at a robin with a squirming insect in its beak and Dorothy is safe from the madman (Dennis Hopper).

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to avoid being deposed in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, according to new court filings. In response, lawyers for the plaintiff — the Authors Guild ...

“This is the talk of a madman,” Abu al-Saeed says. “And as we Arabs say: ‘If the speaker is a madman, let the listener be sane’. This man knows nothing about homeland, struggle ...

Travis Kelce wasn't penalized in a confrontation during the AFC championship game last week, but he did receive a fine. The NFL docked the Kansas City Chiefs tight end $11,255 for taunting on ...

By the end of childhood I was already firmly convinced that it was so and that I was to play my part on the stage ... a fascist, a madman”. His life invites us to reckon with the intersection ...