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- 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"...
- Nexus and Eve of Destruction: Lessons in Change - December 10, 2008
- Put both books on Barack Obama's Christmas reading lists -- put them in the stocking marked "Strategic Guidance Regarding Change." Winkler's book provides...
- Mumbai: The Terrorists' Gambit - December 3, 2008
- India's outrage has deep roots. Islamist terrorists likely connected to Pakistan have struck Mumbai many times, with attacks in 1993 and 2006 particularly...
- The Pirates of Puntland - November 26, 2008
- From a sea crook's perspective, a freighter fleet and $30 million in cash isn't a problem, it's success. The cash roll may seem small by Wall Street bailout...
- Background to the Iraqi-U.S. Security Agreements - November 19, 2008
- The second event occurred in spring 2008: the Iraqi Army's Operation Charge of the Knights. Declared an immediate failure by an overwhelming majority of the...
- Obama's Great Expectations Encounter Sudan - November 12, 2008
- In 2002, the New Sudan Council of Churches published a handbook titled "The Story of People to People Peacemaking in Southern Sudan." I picked up a copy in a...
- The Counter-Terror Raid on Sukkariyah, Syria - October 29, 2008
- The raid also entailed political risks. Syria howled, Russia yelped, even Iraq deplored it -- but that is surface political rhetoric. For five years, Iraqis...
- The International Crisis Testing Obama's Mettle - October 22, 2008
- Gomer Pyle's kitsch litany (from "The Andy Griffith Show") will damn us once again: "Surprise, surprise, surprise." Pyle's flabbergast served as a...
- The Next President's Iraq War - October 15, 2008
- Iraq's organizational advantage has two components. First and foremost Iraq engages Iran with the U.S. as an active ally -- unless the next U.S. president...
- Into Africom - October 8, 2008
- Budgeteers and Cold War strategists made a bottom-line argument for the division. During the Cold War, Africa was an "economy of force" theater, with Europe and...
- Historians at War - October 1, 2008
- One problem in implementation was the failure to provide "stipends" -- pay for Iraqi soldiers. Feith writes, with profound understatement, that "that would...
- The Media's Trillion-Dollar Question - September 17, 2008
- New and old media both provide the good, the dreck, the quality and the schlock. New technology does create new opportunities for sharing...
- Bin Laden's Slow Rot - September 10, 2008
- Seven years ago, Osama bin Laden was a Big Man on the planet, a bearded stud with a Himalayan reputation among young Muslim militants from Morocco to Indonesia. Now,...
- Time to Go Nuclear - September 3, 2008
- Das Leben Wahlen is printed in German Green Party green, with a very beautiful leaf. Stop Kernenergie appears in stark black and white, with a huge X over a...
- Tsar Wars Versus Star Wars - August 27, 2008
- These goals would also resonate in an "Old History" of Russia -- call it Tsar Wars, with Ivan the Terrible as the featured personality. Personalizing...
- Crime and Warfare: An Anatomy of Terror - August 20, 2008
- The Colombian people knew it. In early February 2008, The New York Times quoted a Colombian citizen who was participating in an anti-FARC demonstration held in downtown...
- The Russo-Georgia War's Dire Diplomatic Aftermath - August 13, 2008
- Nonetheless, a complex and dire diplomatic and political aftermath is upon us. The aggressive, ultra-nationalist Russia has clearly emerged. James...