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- Al-Qaida's Prospects - November 18, 2009
- Maj. Nidal Hasan's treachery and terror jolted Americans. As Hasan's attack demonstrates, al-Qaida and al-Qaida-influenced fanatics can strike and kill on American...
- Hasan's Treason - November 11, 2009
- One word aptly describes Ft. Hood mass murderer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan: traitor. Traitor is a tough word. It doesn't smudge and squish. "Traitor" draws a hard line, one...
- Cracking the Berlin Wall - November 4, 2009
- On Nov. 9, 1989, large crowds of German citizens from both East and West Berlin approached the Berlin Wall. At several border crossing points, East Berliners began...
- Building an Army Under Fire - October 28, 2009
- Maintaining a competent military organization is a challenge for wealthy nations, even in times of relative peace. Bureaucrats and politicians hijack budgets as...
- What Kind of Action in the World Justifies a Nobel Peace Prize? - October 14, 2009
- Action in the world ought to trump worlds evoked by words, especially when awarding a global prize allegedly recognizing sustained, courageous effort on behalf of peace...
- Afghanistan's Changing Battleground - October 7, 2009
- Eliminate commercial jet transports connecting continents, and the tangled tribal, economic, anarchic and ideological problems vexing Afghanistan become more localized...
- Sudan's Simmering North-South War - September 30, 2009
- Sudan's genocidal Darfur war still attracts international attention, and though large battles pitting national government troops against Darfur rebels are less frequent...
- Obama Lets Sphere of Influence Trump Sphere of Security - September 23, 2009
- When it came to acting on behalf of peace in the 21st century, the Obama administration weighed "sphere of influence" against "sphere of security" and came down solidly...
- Don't Damage the First Line of Defense - September 9, 2009
- Morale matters -- especially in a time of war. Morale even matters in an "overseas contingency operation," the hazy bureaucratic phrase the Obama administration sought...
- Two Septembers: 1939 and 2001 - September 2, 2009
- Unleashed in the early hours of Sept. 1, 1939, Germany's "lightning war" -- the blitzkrieg -- quickly pierced Poland's border forces and sliced through the Danzig...
- Mexico's Complex Free Trade Initiative - August 19, 2009
- Credit Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, with vision and guts. In the midst of the Cartel War's vicious bloodletting, Calderon continues to pursue his "systemic...
- Strategic Twitter - August 12, 2009
- Iran's Information Age demonstrators, exploiting the capabilities of the social networking and "micro-blogging" service Twitter, surprised then threatened Iran's...
- Russo-Georgia One Year On: From Reset to Repeat? - August 5, 2009
- Is it reset or repeat? This past week's rhetorical exchanges between Russia and the Republic of Georgia is a definite reminder that the complex political, historical and...
- Remebering a Hungarian Freedom Fighter - July 29, 2009
- "I am now only an American professor," Gen. Bela Kiraly said with a grin. His grin was a survivor's grin -- a charming, elegant East European survivor with a sense of...
- Mumbai's Surprising Aftermath - July 22, 2009
- In November 2008, a terrorist assault team recruited and trained by the Islamist Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) terror organization attacked Mumbai, India, and murdered 166...
- China's Strategic Challenges Go Well Beyond the Uighurs - July 15, 2009
- Rioting last week between ethnic Han Chinese and ethnic Uighurs in China's Xinjiang Province left 180 people dead and 1,000 injured. Chinese police and paramilitary...
- Iran in Limbo - July 1, 2009
- As Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, Iran enters limbo, an uncertain yet perilous period of time separating anger-driven demonstrations from either bloody...
- Ballistic Missile Defense Dependence Day - June 24, 2009
- Call this coming July Fourth Dependence Day -- the day marking prudent and responsible America's realization that we do indeed depend on the diplomatic power and...
- Identifying Domestic Terrorists - May 27, 2009
- It took a couple of awkward weeks, but Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano finally issued a real apology to American military veterans. Recall in...
- Cyber Warfare: The Gray Zone Narrows - May 20, 2009
- The gray zone separating "cyber attacks" by hackers on computer and communications networks from war waged with bayonet, bomb or missile attacks is narrowing, and...
- Sri Lanka's Bitter Endgame - May 13, 2009
- Every day, rebel-controlled territory shrinks. The space for diplomacy is even smaller. After 26 years of vicious civil war on the island of Sri Lanka (known as Ceylon...
- Recalling May 1989 - May 6, 2009
- Hope. Bloodshed. Perseverance. Change. These powerful words provide a sketch of the Cold War, which in May 1989, when Hungary began opening the Austria-Hungarian border,...
- Epidemic of Fear - April 30, 2009
- The devastating epidemic is spread by dread, of course -- dread powered by distortion, gossip and sensationalist greed. The swine flu of 2009 is a threat, but another...
- Grab the Planet By the Throat - April 22, 2009
- Pirates, Iran's corrupt tyranny of mullahs and now international cyber attackers all seek to exploit economic and psychological choke points. Geography provides...
- Legalistic Nonsense Thwarts Anti-Pirate and Anti-Terror Efforts - April 15, 2009
- Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk-Alabama, combines discipline and courage with a cool and calculating mind. Likewise the three U.S. Navy SEAL snipers who --...
- Secretary Gates' Defense Budget Proposals - April 8, 2009
- The answer is no. Gates understands the importance of perseverance in war -- the weapon of spine, determination, will. Osama bin...
- Japan Rewrites North Korea's Script - April 1, 2009
- Elements of the outline are so formulaic they reduce to a bully's checklist. Close the North Korea-South Korea border with an angry huff? Check. Arrest...
- Flash Mobs, Tea Parties and Tocqueville - March 18, 2009
- A flash mob organizer might send four accomplices a message like this: Paint yourself blue and show up at Sixth and Congress in two hours. In concept, the...
- The North Korean Triangle - March 11, 2009
- Kim presides over a criminal state and an economic disaster. Exporting missile technology to thugocracies like Iran earns Kim some hard cash. Rumors...
- Obama Pulls Out, Polemically - March 4, 2009
- Bush administration plans called for a phased transition from "more coalition security operations" to "fewer" based on the continuing, demonstrated...
- A Hotel in Babylon - February 25, 2009
- "Sumer and Ur, home of Abraham ... Ninevah ... Mesopotamia -- perhaps the southern marshes -- as the source of the Agricultural Revolution? ... Alexander at...
- Kosovo's Birthday Beyond the Balkans - February 18, 2009
- But it didn't, not quite, not yet. For almost nine years, the phrase "resolving Kosovo's final status" served as diplomatic shorthand for determining if Kosovo would...
- Afghanistan's Wicked Problems - February 11, 2009
- "Wicked" problems are dynamic and multidimensional -- intricate, constantly changing challenges that frustrate precise definition. As a wicked problem...
- Obama and Iraq's Emerging Victory - February 4, 2009
- But voters traipsing to the polls offer terrorists particularly easy targets ripe for mass murder, which in turn generates the sensational headlines terrorists seek....
- Obama Orbits: Satellites and Space Weapons - January 28, 2009
- The Obama administration has revived the subject -- after a fashion. Check the White House Website on the page detailing defense-related campaign promises....
- Machiavelli, Joint Forces Command and Mexico - January 21, 2009
- But fear sells. Sensationalists latched onto the comments in the document that cited Pakistan and Mexico worst-case "rapid collapse" scenarios, which -- if...
- When the Human Shield Slips - January 14, 2009
- Hezbollah and Hamas also build "meshed, networked static defense systems" comprised of bunkers and tunnels in their human shields' neighborhoods and...
- The Next Future: Money in Both Doom and Boom - January 7, 2009
- The future, however, is another matter. The future is big business. Doom makes money. The doom end of the future business -- both imminent doom...
- What Is Peace? - December 24, 2008
- Avarice, ambition, envy, anger, pride: Shakespeare made villains of them all. They reappear every 30 minutes on all news television. Indeed, they are at the...
- Mexico's Cartel War: Year Three - December 17, 2008
- Iraq's body count does serve, however, as a crude gauge of comparative ferocity. This week, StrategyPage.com editor James F. Dunnigan noted that on an "average day"...