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2024.03.26: Stabilizing Northern Gaza Outweighs an Assault on Rafah
2024.02.12: Dissolve Gaza, Expand the West Bank
2023.12.25: Turning Wadi Gaza into an Armistice Line: Israel's Best-case Scenario.
2023.11.15: Netanyahu's Government Will Likely Survive Until 2026
2023.10.28: Anti-logic in the United States
2023.10.13: Egypt Cynically Rejects a Safe Corridor for Gaza's Civilians: Muslim Countries Demand Palestinian Civilians Accept Martyrdom to Preserve the Ummah's Honor
2023.08.03: Prigozhin's African Empire Offers an Alternative to Kremlin Largesse
2023.06.27: The Mind Must Have a Firewall
2023.04.13: Where Is Henry Kissinger Getting His Numbers On The Petrodollar Agreement?
2023.03.27: Israel's "Useless Class" Revolts Against the Supreme Court
2023.03.26: Remember when Obama and the Russian president ate burgers together?
2023.02.27: Israel's Constitutional Crisis is Class Warfare
2023.01.18: Lifting Sanctions on Russia
2022.11.08: Integrating Russia
2022.11.03: Monroe Doctrine Resurrected
2020.04.13: RE-ENGAGING RUSSIA
2020.02.20: Confirmation Bias
2020.01.15: Putin Lived, Putin Lives, Putin Will Live
2020.01.02: Taking the Hype out of Hypersonic
2019.12.26: Failure of Maximum Pressure on Iran
2019.11.25: None Dare Call it Genocide
2019.11.19: Sanctity of Borders
2019.07.23: 10 Megadeaths From Victory ??
2018.11.08: Migrants? or Refugees?
2018.10.27: Gaza Body Count
2018.10.19: Save the J. Edgar Hoover Building
2018.09.06: This is the Last Chance to Solve North Korean Issues
2018.08.12: Make America Great Again - Really
2018.06.22: Franco-German superfighter to be combat-ready in middle of 21st century
2018.05.30: B1-B Lancer Completes Target-Seeking Long-Range Missile Test
2018.04.24: a wonderful family
2018.04.02: Novichok and its chemists
2018.03.30: US Navy's F-35C 'at risk' of missing 2018 IOC declaration
2018.03.29: MHz D.C. News Channels Going Off-Air April 1, 2018
2018.03.20: a conspiracy so immense
2018.03.19: Non Lethal Novichok
2018.03.16: Davis Cup After Four Decades
2018.02.28: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to fly unmanned in near future
2018.02.23: Bloody Nose for The Don
2018.02.23: Bloody Nose for Little Rocket Man
2018.02.20: Forensics in Action
2018.02.17: KGB to Steal Mid-Term Elections
2018.02.13: "interim" clearance
2017.11.18: U.S. Congress Requests Space-Based Ballistic Missile Defense
2017.11.09: Middle East Appetite For Fighter Jets Rages Despite Low Oil Prices
2017.10.11: General Atomics, Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed Will Bid To Produce Pentagon's MQ-25A Stingray Drone
2017.09.21: American Victory in Vietnam
2017.09.20: totally destroy North Korea
2017.09.10: New terror threat: Drones dropping dirty bombs in non-combat areas
2017.08.31: South Korea moves to assemble plans to conquer Pyongyang
2017.07.13: Putin Supported Hillary
2017.07.10: US Navy Looks For Options To Support Carrier Strike Groups With Small Surface Warships
2017.07.02: China Moves Toward Military Hegemony in South China Sea
2017.05.03: Shifting Gears on Afghanistan
2017.03.22: Reject Trump's Proposed Budget
2017.03.12: Exceptional America
2017.01.13: kompromat
2016.12.07: Make Democracy Work
2016.12.06: Cancel Air Force One??
2016.09.14: Dump Duterte
2016.08.16: Fidel's Fashionista ???
2016.06.21: Fighting Daesh Fundamentally
2016.01.28: Eliminating Migration
2016.01.12: Age of Amity
2015.11.24: Shifting Afghan Gears: Build, Don't Blast
2015.11.13: The Two Sides of Cybersecurity
2015.09.14: Rebuilding Afghanistan - a Critical Task
2015.07.08: U.S. needs a new electronic identity-protection strategy to prevent 'hybrid warfare' attacks
2015.04.20: Putin: Eyes Wide Shut
2015.03.30: Inside the Terrorist Factory
2015.01.28: National Strategic Void
2014.12.18: Seth Rogen's digital Pearl Harbor
2014.10.20: Why Afghanistan II ?
2014.08.06: Russia's INF Treaty Violation: More Questions than Answers
2014.07.24: Navy Passes the Buck on 'Boomer' Buy
2014.07.17: Afghanistan and Kids At the Border
2014.07.08: Pentagon promises 'Mission Match' instead of 'Mission Creep' in Iraq
2014.06.19: The Iraq Crisis and U.S. Post-War Strategy
2014.06.05: Busting Budgetary Restraint: OCO to fund Obama's new security initiatives
2014.05.12: Russia, NATO and American Power
2014.05.06: India Votes -- and What It Might Mean for the United States
2014.05.06: India Votes and What It Might Mean for the United States
2014.04.28: First Syria, Now Ukraine: What Explains the U.S. Public's Reluctance to Intervene?
2014.04.28: Computer Security for the 1 Percent
2014.04.23: Behold a Pale Farce: Cyberwar & the propaganda machine of the national security megaplex
2014.04.01: Slip sliding global presence funding into the OCO account
2014.03.26: Why Afghanistan Matters: Renewing America and Renewing the World
2014.03.22: CRIMEAN OPPORTUNITY
2014.01.31: The Terrorist Threat to the Sochi Olympics
2013.12.24: Preserving Ukraine's European Choice
2013.12.23: Putin's Pardons
2013.12.23: Should the United States End Assistance to Syria's Rebels?
2013.10.31: Surviving ricin
2013.10.30: It's the NSA's world, we only live in it
2013.10.28: The Best & the Brightest: Hacking to save corporate America
2013.10.16: The Next Hurricane Katrina: Energy Executives and Cyber Security
2013.10.16: Smart Grid and the Threat of Malicious Cyber Actors
2013.10.07: We got the war on terror pensioner! Go team!
2013.09.06: Limited U.S. Military Strikes Do Not Unseat Dug-in Dictators
2013.08.23: What Would al Qaeda's PowerPoints Say?
2013.08.06: Exploding clothes: The latest whoopie cushion from our anonymous security experts
2013.07.29: Poverty and the Annual National Security Ogres & Wealth Festival
2013.07.15: Immigration, Globalization and National Security
2013.07.10: Ricin, the super-duper defense lab and out-sourcing
2013.07.09: North Korea and McAfee: Threat or Menace?
2013.06.28: Egypt's Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
2013.06.19: Did the NSA foil the Zazi peroxide bomb plot?
2013.06.17: The Edward Snowden affair demolishes US cyberwar hype
2013.06.07: Ricin Pinup Girl Arrested
2013.06.01: Ricin Bean Pounding: Welcome to the new weird
2013.05.30: Bean Pounding: Unknown violent gun nut implicated in ricin mail
2013.05.28: Cyberwar, cyberespionage and media manipulation
2013.05.22: Chemical Weapons in Syria: What could the U.S. do about them?
2013.05.21: Bean Pounding: J. Everett Dutschke & the strange saga of outsider music and bioterrorism
2013.05.13: Crowd-sourcing our security
2013.05.09: Pentagon declares Chinese cyberespionage the cause of all woe
2013.05.07: My Plastic Gun Kills Fascists
2013.04.23: Ricin case FUBAR
2013.04.15: When Armies Divide: Securing Nuclear Arsenals During Internal Upheavals
2013.04.09: Realigning Defense Workers
2013.03.22: Fraud Anniversary
2013.03.21: The Invasion of Iraq: A Balance Sheet
2012.12.12: Generations of Terrorism
2012.12.12: Political Impasse in Egypt
2012.11.17: Calling Paula Broadwell
2012.11.16: Obama Trip Could be Bellwether for U.S.-Asia Relations
2012.11.05: U.S. Role in Kirkuk Could Promote Peace, Prevent Conflict in Northern Iraq
2012.11.04: Status of Classified Imagery Declassification Farce
2012.10.23: The yen for authoritarians
2012.10.22: Muslim Brotherhood failing to learn from mistakes
2012.10.12: Digital 9/11 Gall
2012.09.25: Cyber-Leaden
2012.09.20: Poverty & immorality, graphed
2012.09.19: Mitt Romney's Battleships
2012.08.30: People-Centered Policy
2012.08.28: Export surplus: Arms sales to toadies
2012.08.15: Changing of the Guard in Egypt
2012.08.10: 4 Years On, Hard Feelings Linger Between Russia and Georgia
2012.08.08: Victims of terrorism-by-mistaken-identity
2012.08.08: Syrian Scenarios
2012.08.03: No can haz cyberdefense against greatest transfer of wealth in history this year
2012.08.01: Our Cyberdefense Shoeshine Boys
2012.07.30: What it would take to intervene in Syria
2012.07.25: Syria's chemical weapons, and beyond
2012.07.20: The President delivers his cyberscare story
2012.07.17: The greatest transfer of wealth in history ...
2012.07.17: North Korean defense chief's retirement has hallmarks of purge
2012.07.10: The Best and The Brightest -- not anymore
2012.06.13: The shady and the low of US virus war
2012.06.11: Expose the US virus war machine
2012.06.01: The cat's out of the bag on US virus war -- watch out for fleas
2012.05.29: Flame virus makes great press release
2012.05.29: The U.S. Needs to Wake Up to the Threat of Chinese Legal Warfare.
2012.05.25: Three Challenges Still Await NATO
2012.05.22: The U.S.'s Somalia policy: Time for a Change.
2012.05.18: Lousy joke of the week: Pentagon apparatchiks do the China Peril thing
2012.05.16: White, right wing and paranoid is a terrible way to go through life
2012.05.15: Questions After the First U.S. Bank Takeover by a Chinese State-Controlled Company
2012.05.08: Republic totters on news of innovative underwear bomb
2012.05.07: Guns, Not Butter -- Because in your heart, you know it's bad to tend to the poor & sick
2012.05.04: Wanted: Missile Defense Program to Meet Threats the U.S. Faces
2012.05.04: The bin Laden No-Prize
2012.05.01: Dirty tricks unleashed on Occupy Wall Street?
2012.05.01: AFGHANISTAN ARISING
2012.04.30: One Year Later: Lessons from Recovery After the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake
2012.04.27: 50 Terror Plots Foiled Since 9/11
2012.04.12: Old pink meat product
2012.04.11: New Analysis of North Korean Missile
2012.03.28: Yellow Fever
2012.03.27: The Bogometer is blinking red
2012.03.27: Terrorism in the Northern Caucasus- Russia's Failure Is Becoming the World's Concern
2012.03.27: How not to be 'sick'
2012.03.23: Atom drone ideas ruefully canceled
2012.03.23: Homeland Security Budget Needs Improvement
2012.03.22: New Imagery shows North Korean Launch Site Ready
2012.03.20: An old cyberwar April Fool's joke proves durable, finds new rubes
2012.03.12: Still flogging the pain ray
2012.03.07: Bombing Paupers: The strategy of the Forever War explained
2012.03.05: The 'lights out' meme and the joy of believing rubbish
2012.03.05: Defending America Should Take Priority
2012.03.01: Oil company funny bizness 'splained
2012.02.28: WikiLeaks reveals Stratfor nose gold
2012.02.24: US officials try to fit up Anonymous
2012.02.23: Afghan Manifesto
2012.02.17: Bombing Paupers Inc comes home: It's all about the money
2012.02.10: Okie loons fight the lowly castor plant
2012.02.07: Monetizing the kooks
2012.02.04: So many Doomsdays
2012.02.02: Uncle Sam versus castor oil
2012.01.31: The Militarization of South Pasadena
2012.01.31: Our Nuclear Forces Must Be Modernized to Remain Credible
2012.01.30: Democratic Sclerosis and National Strategy
2012.01.27: Defense cuts to cause boom in bombing paupers
2012.01.17: Blinding lasers, pepper spray and electric rays
2011.12.28: Secrets from a country that doesn't exist about stuff that no longer matters
2011.12.23: Drones over paupers: An Empire Merry Christmas
2011.12.20: The Year of the Arab Spring
2011.12.13: Newt, chieftain of the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy
2011.12.12: Helping Afghans Build Afghanistan
2011.11.25: Killer robots and bombs trump the meat
2011.11.22: The rotten cost of non-lethal weaponry comes home
2011.11.19: Afghan Reset
2011.11.18: The Empire's Dog Feces: Non-lethal use against OWS protest
2011.11.08: The Poison Chats of the Ricin Beans Gang
2011.11.04: Old Weird America, ricin kooks and extremism
2011.11.02: Ricin kooks hit the big time
2011.11.01: Scary Story: Book teaser reveals leaders as lousy as their press
2011.10.21: Corporate welfare/entitlement spending in homeland security
2011.10.20: Duqu virus: Following the patterns of malware proliferation
2011.10.16: Pitchforks media
2011.10.13: Drone virus story craps out
2011.10.12: Fun Cult of Anthrax Deniers Deploys Word Processors for Ivins
2011.10.07: Failed State: As defined by food stamp use
2011.10.06: Secure Grid '11 - Electrical Grid Crisis Tabletop Exercise
2011.09.17: ENERGIZING AFGHANISTAN
2011.09.14: The Future of European Security
2011.09.13: The transatlantic impact of 9/11
2011.09.12: The bad guys won
2011.09.09: Testing the "Gratitude Doctrine"
2011.09.01: What Next on Libya?
2011.08.26: Accumulation of Russian Space Failures
2011.08.26: The Post-Libya Environment
2011.08.26: New Approaches to Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism
2011.08.23: Defense and Austerity
2011.08.19: The Firewall Approach to Global Security?
2011.08.19: Pandas in Space
2011.08.15: Ricin bomb rubbish
2011.08.12: Crawling back for the limelight of 9/11 anniversary
2011.08.12: Riots and National Security Spending
2011.08.02: Defense Cuts vs Military Flexibility
2011.07.25: The Empire's Dog Feces: Electromagnetic pulse weapon mania
2011.07.23: Thoughts on Transition in Afghanistan
2011.07.21: First we fire all the lawyers
2011.07.20: Geographic Transition in Afghanistan Begins
2011.07.14: Balancing Security and Values
2011.07.14: The Future of Naval Power
2011.07.12: A plutocrat firm gets its stuff taken by the cyber-paupers
2011.07.08: The plutocrats worry about the cyber-paupers coming for their stuff
2011.07.06: The Joker Bomb
2011.07.05: What's Next for Nuclear Modernization?
2011.06.29: On War and Intervention
2011.06.28: Afghanistan: Handoff from NATO to SCO?
2011.06.24: Documents to get you jailed, courtesy of the US survivalist fringe
2011.06.21: Rally for Afghanistan
2011.06.20: Keeping America in Asia
2011.06.17: Aftermath of the Gates Speech
2011.06.14: No Deal on Missile Defense
2011.06.13: Review -- Wikiwars: The Mission of Julian Assange
2011.06.07: Energy and Current Security
2011.05.27: Glimpse of bin Laden Techniques in Captured Records of al-Qa'ida in Iraq
2011.05.26: Recent Research on Terrorism and Disaster Response
2011.05.26: How Might Bin Laden's Demise Affect Business?
2011.05.20: Natural Security
2011.05.16: Maximizing Missile Defense
2011.05.13: China and Russia: After Bin Laden
2011.05.12: Picking through Osama bin Laden's nose gold
2011.05.12: Bin Laden's Successor
2011.05.10: How Osama bin Laden screwed up my driver's license
2011.05.06: Could Bin Laden's Death Prompt a Cyber Attack?
2011.05.06: Entering the Post-Bin Laden Era
2011.05.05: Meeting the Millennial Mismatch
2011.05.02: After Bin Laden's Demise
2011.04.29: Sneakers on the Ground
2011.04.27: Russian Nuclear Strike: Asteroid or Hurricane?
2011.04.25: Economic Treason: Evisceration of US economy, graphed
2011.04.22: The Departing Dictators' Dilemma: Retirement or Prison?
2011.04.20: Looking for Cuts in All the Wrong Places
2011.04.15: Obama's Just Enough Doctrine
2011.04.13: The admiral's servant does his shopping
2011.04.08: Bruce Ivins, first bioterrorist/country recording artist ever?
2011.04.08: Lessons from Libya
2011.04.06: How Much is Enough?
2011.04.01: Economic Treason: Loss of manufacturing could be security problem -- Ya think?
2011.03.31: Bombing Moe: Rebel rabble routed plus General Electric funnies
2011.03.29: The Political Struggle for Security Control in Iraq
2011.03.26: Guest Post: Making Might Right
2011.03.24: Bombing Moe: Heavy arty versus rabble
2011.03.24: Creepy Bruce Ivins was the anthrax mailer -- psychiatrists say
2011.03.24: The Beginning of the End in Afghanistan
2011.03.24: TIPPING AFGHANISTAN: Shifting Gears in the Current Struggle
2011.03.22: Bombing Moe: Gilt furniture and calculating a war dividend
2011.03.21: Bombing Moe: The 4 percent Brits, never bombing banksters and more
2011.03.20: Bombing Moe: "The Tomahawk is neat,' 'fascinating,' and other Sunday morning funnies
2011.03.19: Bombing Moe: Five more breaking reasons the Prez said go
2011.03.18: Why Russia Didn't Veto
2011.03.18: Bomb Moe -- Ten reasons why the Prez decided so
2011.03.18: Building Afghanistan's Police Force
2011.03.16: Economic Treason: When you sell arms to skunks it's not surprising when the stench sticks to you
2011.03.16: Fuel rods and catastrophes
2011.03.15: Battle: Los Angeles -- don't think, sit back and watch the explosions & dirt
2011.03.15: Thinking twice about Libyan engagement
2011.03.14: Economic Treason: A look at Wisconsin and arms manufacturing
2011.03.09: Cult of EMP Crazy in the Koreas plus a few notes on weapons and China
2011.03.09: America's Pirate Problem
2011.03.07: The best bio of Julian Assange you won't read in the US media
2011.03.04: Friday's Mixed Nuts: Stuxnet and an amusing WikiLeaks web review
2011.03.04: The Real Afghan Surge
2011.03.02: Economic Treason: Middle class whacked, arms manufacturing flourishes (a series)
2011.03.01: Bonded in Blood: The U.S.-Afghan Relationship
2011.02.28: Youth Unemployment in North Africa and Middle East Driving Political Change
2011.02.23: A vision of strategic nuclear war from 1958
2011.02.23: National Security and Partnership
2011.02.22: Eat Feces & Die: US uses jihad docs on poisons as vector for malware
2011.02.22: A Game-Changer off Somalia?
2011.02.22: On Building an Army
2011.02.21: The Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy: A caucus and a movie
2011.02.19: The Battle for Marjah -- a short review
2011.02.18: Back to Tehran
2011.02.18: "Over Here" US Ill-prepared to Receive Disaster Assistance
2011.02.17: The Continuing Amusement of Chinese Threat Inflation
2011.02.15: Demilitarizing the Afghan Effort
2011.02.15: Rigor and prudence shown in NRC report on Amerithrax science
2011.02.14: Economic Treason: Abandonment of manufacturing except for weapons
2011.02.11: Odious corporate spying firms enjoy epic bad publicity day
2011.02.11: WikiLeaks and distortions for the sake of sensation
2011.02.09: Senile al Qaeda Men Threaten Wall St. - No One Cares
2011.02.01: The Situation in the Middle East: A Turkish Model of A Different Sort?
2011.01.25: Stewarding Defense in a Budget Cutting Congress
2011.01.25: Hezbollah--Weber's Stepchild
2011.01.21: Afghanistan Economic Strategy
2011.01.21: Pirates Strike Again
2011.01.17: The Exciting Story of Stuxnet and Received Wisdom
2011.01.13: Iran Overhauls Subsidies in the Face of Sanctions
2011.01.07: Economic Warfare and Hub States
2010.12.28: CLASH OF CULTURES
2010.12.22: New START Ratified by the Senate
2010.12.21: The Fate of New START
2010.12.20: Afghanistan: The Political Challenge for Washington
2010.12.13: Limits of Chinese Soft Power
2010.12.10: Kosovo Precedent for Palestine: First Steps?
2010.12.06: Afghanistan: The Good News and The Bad News
2010.11.30: WikiLeaks -- more and more, you betcha
2010.11.28: Mitigating Meltdown
2010.11.26: What's Next? Monitoring the Korean Peninsula
2010.11.24: Defending the Indefensible
2010.11.22: Screwing Over the Public For Fun & Profit in the War on Terror
2010.11.17: A Future for NATO Beyond Lisbon?
2010.11.16: Big Win for Terrorists and US National Security Business
2010.11.16: A Fuzzy Strategy for Afghanistan
2010.11.16: The "Lord of War" Arrives on U.S. Shores
2010.11.10: Eggs Freshly Poisoned, Bombs Freshly Packed
2010.11.08: Myth of American Declinism
2010.11.01: Pakistan and NATO: A Discussion Continued
2010.10.30: When a UPS Pack Means a New Failed Attack, That's Logistics
2010.10.20: Defense Budgets Have Been Growing Since 9/11. So, Why is Money Still Tight?
2010.10.19: Documenting the Ranks of Neighborhood Heroes
2010.10.15: Exporting Security: The Balanced Approach
2010.10.08: The Hezbollah Precedent in Afghanistan?
2010.10.07: Pakistan and NATO? Two responses
2010.10.05: America's Doctor Germ Dead at 84
2010.10.04: Pakistan and NATO
2010.09.29: Stuxnet: Great cyberweapon or cyberfizzle?
2010.09.27: What's Wrong with New START and How to Fix It
2010.09.26: Cyber Attack: Stuxnet Worm
2010.09.23: New Afghan Strategy: From the Ground Up
2010.09.16: Mission Creep: How not to reclassify civilian activities as potentials for terrorism
2010.09.14: On Foreign Military Sales
2010.09.10: Made in China: Shoddy goods or superweapons?
2010.09.07: Ricin Kooks
2010.09.03: Obama's Doctrine?
2010.09.03: The Cyber Challenge
2010.09.01: The Dickensian Character from US Business: A Biosecurity Threat
2010.08.30: Welcome to the Future: The Prison System Pain Ray
2010.08.25: Mission Accomplished (Again)
2010.08.25: The Conway Comments on Afghanistan
2010.08.23: Small Reactors and the Military's Role in Securing America's Nuclear Industry
2010.08.17: Afghanistan: Descent into Reality
2010.08.12: Learning from the Soviets
2010.08.03: The Graham-Talent lobbying group wants its pie saved
2010.08.02: OPSEC and WikiLeaks
2010.07.30: Maneuvering Iran Towards a Libya Deal?
2010.07.29: Homeland Security Looking North and South
2010.07.29: The Rogue Company
2010.07.29: Will Obama Lose Turkey?
2010.07.26: So-called Wonder Weapon given the sack
2010.07.23: Neither Taliban Nor NATO
2010.07.18: (Re-)Discovering Federalism
2010.07.13: Debating Lend-Lease for the 21st century
2010.07.07: Fall Back in Afghanistan
2010.07.05: Debating Counterinsurgency
2010.07.01: Exiting Afghanistan: the wrong pre-conditions
2010.06.30: Petraeus Demotion? Hardly
2010.06.30: The Russian Espionage Caper
2010.06.28: Iran: the time to deal with the periphery has passed
2010.06.24: Denying homegrown terrorists the glory
2010.06.24: Shameless
2010.06.23: Zero Immigration
2010.06.23: Triumph for Civil-Military Relations?
2010.06.23: Afghan Objectives
2010.06.23: Civ-Mil Crisis
2010.06.18: Behind the Flotilla Headlines: Turkish Strategic Competition and U.S. Policy in the Middle East
2010.06.18: Collapse in Afghanistan?
2010.06.16: Message for Marjah
2010.06.15: Intimidation and Taliban
2010.06.08: Admiral Roughead Looks Ahead
2010.06.05: Visions for Afghanistan
2010.06.05: The Cheonan Reckoning: Implications for Northeast Asian Stability
2010.06.01: NPT Review: Less Than Meets the Eye
2010.05.27: Opium: Buy and Burn, or Not
2010.05.27: National Security Strategy Released
2010.05.06: Problems in Fighting Piracy in the Indian Ocean
2010.05.01: Refashioning Afghan Strategy: Nation Growing
2010.05.01: Cult of Cyberwar: The Chieftain flogs his book
2010.04.29: The NPT Test
2010.04.26: Moving Ahead in the Western Balkans
2010.04.17: Defense, Deterrence & Decline
2010.04.16: Israel's Birthday: Are the Stars Misaligned?
2010.04.15: Deterring Chinese Cyber Militias with Freedom Militias
2010.04.14: The Secret Condition
2010.04.12: Scorecard for the Nuclear Summit
2010.04.08: Do Russia and the U.S. Need Marriage Counseling?
2010.04.07: After the Nuclear Posture Review: The Next Steps
2010.04.05: Zero Has No Legs
2010.04.01: Hollow Jobs: Defense Undermines Security
2010.03.30: Helping China Prosper
2010.03.24: Good News on START?
2010.03.23: State Sponsors: Cuba
2010.03.21: Global Good Governance - Indicators
2010.03.21: Anthrax: From 'Science' to conspiracy
2010.02.26: Iran's Counter-Strike
2010.02.24: A Month After the Earthquake: Opportunities Slipping Away
2010.02.24: Alternative Views on Climate Change
2010.02.19: Mending Mexico
2010.02.17: Planning for the Future? Examining the Pentagon's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review
2010.02.11: Defending America: Meeting the Threats & Challenges Facing the Nation
2010.02.08: Sweeping the Taliban Aside
2010.02.06: Immigration Undermines Security
2010.02.03: Russia’s Energy Disputes
2010.02.01: Riding the Dragon--How the US should Think about China
2010.02.01: Al-Qaeda's Financial Pressures
2010.01.31: Where Will the Jobs Come From?
2010.01.26: The Busted Watch of US WMD Threat Assessment
2010.01.25: Time to Stop Ignoring Chávez
2010.01.19: Living in the Margin Error--US Policy on Iran
2010.01.17: PROTECTING AMERICAN LIVES
2010.01.14: Global Uranium Supply and Demand
2010.01.14: Obama's Nobel Speech and North Korea
2010.01.11: There is no place for 'no-solutionists'
2010.01.08: Idealism Is the New Realism
2010.01.08: The Coming Afghanistan Surge - and the Severely Wounded
2010.01.08: Admiral Mullen Speaks at the Naval War College
2010.01.08: Intel Gaffes: Follow the Dropped Balls
2010.01.04: The New Counterterrorism Challenge
2009.12.30: Can the North Korean "Peace Offensive" Drive a Wedge in the U.S.-ROK Alliance?
2009.12.29: Fix America First
2009.12.18: Learn from the past and arm the Afghans
2009.12.16: Guantanamo Bay's Slow Closing Act
2009.12.10: Ends, Ways, and Means--the Debate We Still Need on Afghanistan
2009.12.07: Dispatch from Pyongyang: An Offer You Can't Refuse!
2009.12.05: Fix the World
2009.12.04: Copenhagen's Many Agendas
2009.12.04: President's Afghanistan Strategy - More Questions Than Answers
2009.12.04: President Obama's Afghanistan Speech: An Uncertain Message
2009.12.02: Afghanistan: A marathon, not a prize fight
2009.12.01: Troops, Timetables, and Afghanistan
2009.11.24: Do We Need "Airminded" Options for Afghanistan?
2009.11.20: The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal
2009.11.18: Refashioning Afghan Strategy
2009.11.18: Europe: Integrating Islam
2009.11.17: Time and Taliban
2009.11.16: Confronting the China-U.S. Economic Imbalance
2009.11.14: Obama Visit to Seoul: Building a Better Vision
2009.11.14: Obama Message to Asia: America's Back!
2009.11.13: Not Too Fast With China
2009.11.13: Short History of Israeli Right Wing Terrorism
2009.11.13: Cult of Cyberattack
2009.11.11: Steady State State
2009.11.02: Karzai's second term a test for international community
2009.11.02: Legitimacy Questions in Afghanistan
2009.10.27: Civilian Airstrikes in Afghanistan - A Different View
2009.10.26: Pakistan's New Generation of Terrorists
2009.10.25: Afghanistan: No Exit
2009.10.21: Peace is the Answer to the Specter of Israel's International Isolation
2009.10.18: Trends in Terror Prep Net Surfing
2009.10.15: Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program
2009.10.08: The Cost of Commitment in Afghanistan
2009.10.07: Pakistan's Education System and Links to Extremism
2009.10.07: A Rare Opportunity for Space Diplomacy
2009.10.06: Wen Jiabao Gets the Red Carpet Treatment From Kim Jong Il
2009.10.01: Time to Talk to Iran
2009.09.30: Finding a Solution to Iran
2009.09.29: U.S. Fighter Gap: Myth or Reality?
2009.09.28: Russia's Price
2009.09.25: Latest Bombshell on Iran's Covert Nuclear Activities Explodes Hopes for Obama Administration's Engagement Strategy
2009.09.24: Why Afghanistan?
2009.09.24: The Beauty Parlor Supply Store Bomb
2009.09.23: South Korean Leadership in the G-20 and the U.S.-ROK Alliance
2009.09.23: The Lengthening List of Iran Sanctions
2009.09.23: Twenty Agendas at G-20, Part II
2009.09.21: The Purpose of the Afghan War
2009.09.20: Moscow's Freebie
2009.09.18: Obama Administration's New Missile Defense Plan Is a Losing Proposition
2009.09.18: War's Silent Stress: Healing The Military Family
2009.09.17: The Role of the UN General Assembly
2009.09.15: Conditioning a U.S.-Iranian Dialogue
2009.09.15: Iran's Nuclear Program
2009.09.14: US Strategic Objectives
2009.09.14: The F-22 is Not Dead Yet: Congress Should Support the Development of an Allied Variant
2009.09.14: Swine Flu: Nothing to Sneeze At
2009.09.14: Ill Trade Winds with Beijing
2009.09.11: The Challenge of Preparing for Instability in North Korea
2009.09.09: Obama Veto Threat vs. Congress: Why Members Care About Joint Strike Fighter Engine Competition
2009.09.07: Addressing Global Warming: Security
2009.09.01: The African Union
2009.09.01: Rethinking Afghanistan
2009.08.29: Afghanistan in Context
2009.08.28: Afghan drugs: The contrarian view
2009.08.27: Shining Path, Tupac Amaru (Peru, leftists)
2009.08.26: The Rise of Political Opposition in Japan
2009.08.25: CIA Probe and the Torture Debate
2009.08.20: China-Pakistan Relations
2009.08.19: FARC, ELN: Colombia’s Left-Wing Guerrillas
2009.08.17: Governing Afghanistan
2009.08.13: New Op-Ed in Washington Jewish Week: The 'West-Bankization' of Israel?
2009.08.11: The Russians are Coming?
2009.08.11: China-Taiwan Relations
2009.08.10: The World Health Organization
2009.08.07: Addressing Global Warming: Storms
2009.08.06: Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
2009.08.05: Clinton to Pyongyang: After Action Assessment
2009.08.04: Clinton to Pyongyang: Criteria for Success
2009.07.30: McKinnon at Bay: Brit hacker finds Uncle Sam a hard man
2009.07.29: Addressing Global Warming: Water
2009.07.29: New Stodge Same as Old Stodge: Napolitano on Counter-Terror
2009.07.29: Iran Under Pressure
2009.07.29: F-22 Debate Is About More Than Fighters
2009.07.29: NATO Supply Lines in Afghanistan: The Search for Alternative Routes
2009.07.23: The Next Chapter in Iraq
2009.07.22: North Korea's Left Turn: Implications for Regime Stability
2009.07.22: Electromagnetic Pulse Theatre: Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Time
2009.07.22: The Media Landscape in Iran
2009.07.21: The China-North Korea Relationship
2009.07.20: Progress and Challenges in India Trip
2009.07.20: What to Do About the F-22
2009.07.10: The Pathetic War: South Korean and US websites suffer cyberattack
2009.07.09: What if North Korea Says No?: Medium-to-Long Term Strategic Options
2009.07.09: Kashmir Militant Extremists
2009.07.06: Medvedev-Obama Summit: Day One
2009.07.06: Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region
2009.07.06: Seeking Substance in Moscow
2009.07.03: Theory of Stupidivity: Your Guarantee of Cybersecurity Failure
2009.07.03: What's Driving Pyongyang?
2009.07.02: Reassessing the Jackson-Vanik Amendment
2009.07.02: How Out of Control Entitlement Spending Is Draining the Defense Budget
2009.07.01: The Six-Party Talks on North Korea's Nuclear Program
2009.07.01: A Shaky Iraq's Sovereign Step
2009.06.30: Getting to "Yes" in Iraq
2009.06.30: New Chapter for U.S.-Korea Alliance
2009.06.27: Rule Number One: Always Blame China, then Russia
2009.06.26: The U.S. Military is Going Green
2009.06.24: Iran's Real Winners: The Revolutionary Guards
2009.06.24: Treading Carefully on Iran
2009.06.22: Is North Korea Playing a New Game?
2009.06.22: Iran's Revolutionary Guards
2009.06.22: Iran in Twitter Turmoil
2009.06.19: United States Global Leadership
2009.06.18: Realigning Pakistan's Security Forces
2009.06.17: North Korea's Nuclear and Missile Tests and Six-Party Talks: Where Do We Go From Here?
2009.06.16: The Tehran Test
2009.06.15: Visa Waiver-Vulnerability or Valuable Anti-Terrorist Tool?
2009.06.14: Lee-Obama Summit: Solidifying a Joint Approach toward Pyongyang
2009.06.14: Euna Lee and Laura Ling: Guilty as Charged!
2009.06.14: Obama-Lee Myung-bak Summit: New Challenges for the U.S.-ROK Alliance
2009.06.12: The Speech that Bibi won't Give
2009.06.11: Immigration, Globalization and Sustainability
2009.06.10: Presidential Power in Iran
2009.06.09: North Korea's Harsh Verdict
2009.06.08: Ricin Kooks Are Always Jailhouse Bound
2009.06.08: Gauging Hezbollah After the Vote
2009.06.08: Contractors in Combat
2009.06.06: North Korea's Test and Six Party Talks
2009.06.05: Living with the Outcome: Elections in Lebanon By Aram Nerguizian and Ghassan Schbley
2009.06.05: Lebanon's Parliamentary Elections (June 7, 2009)
2009.06.05: Iran-What Do We Do the Day After?
2009.06.04: FAS Removes Nuke List Doc After News Fit
2009.06.04: The Reset Button On U.S.-Muslim Dialogue
2009.06.02: China's Role in the World
2009.06.01: Geithner's Rebalancing Bid
2009.05.31: Dealing with North Korea by Ralph A. Cossa
2009.05.29: Same Old Story: Improve Cybersecurity
2009.05.29: New op-ed: Netanyahu faces stark choice
2009.05.28: Reaching Out to Touch North Korea: The Sanctions Debate and China
2009.05.27: Armed Islamic Group (Algeria, Islamists)
2009.05.26: North Korea' Nuclear Weekend
2009.05.26: Nourishing Afghanistan's Agricultural Sector
2009.05.25: Second Nuclear Test: North Korea Does What It Says
2009.05.23: South Korea's Roh Moo-hyun: An Impossible Idealist
2009.05.21: Political Battles Over Guantanamo
2009.05.20: Netanyahu and Obama: Disagreements in the Oval Office
2009.05.19: The Debate over Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade
2009.05.19: The Loose Russian Nukes
2009.05.19: Economic Challenges for Climate Change Policy
2009.05.18: Time to Reconsider A Myth About al Qaeda
2009.05.16: North Korean "Never-Never" Land: Prospects for Getting Diplomacy Back on Track
2009.05.15: Burma: Focus on the Long Term by Ralph A. Cossa
2009.05.15: Understanding Myanmar
2009.05.14: China’s Internal Migrants
2009.05.12: The Long Road to Zero
2009.05.12: AfPak Issues and Answers
2009.05.11: Winning the Information War in Afghanistan and Pakistan
2009.05.11: Taiwan's Deteriorating Strategic Position and Cross-Strait Relations
2009.05.09: Global Nuclear Disarmament: Too Much, Too Soon? by Ralph A. Cossa
2009.05.06: Homeland Security Grant Tail Wags State Spending Dog
2009.05.06: Military Implications of Pandemic Flu
2009.05.06: Mid-East Cold War Continued: Ahmedinejad and Feltman in Damascus
2009.05.05: A Strategy Needed for Pakistan and Afghanistan
2009.05.03: Contradictions in the Obama Administration's Policy-in-Formation Toward North Korea
2009.05.03: Burma: Time for a New Approach by Ralph A. Cossa
2009.05.01: Flu Economics
2009.04.30: Stabilizing Pakistan: Boosting its Private Sector
2009.04.29: North Korea: Is a Containment Policy the Best (Only) Option? by Ralph A. Cossa
2009.04.28: THE AFGHAN-PAKISTAN-INDIA-CHINA CHAIN
2009.04.28: Defense Budget Bait and Switch
2009.04.28: Responding to Swine Flu; Updates and Implications for Healthcare and Homeland Security
2009.04.27: European Union at Cross Purposes in Kosovo By Christopher Chivvis
2009.04.27: Obama and North Korea: First 100 Days
2009.04.27: Is America Smart Enough to Survive?
2009.04.27: The Hunt for the Unha-2
2009.04.26: To Reduce Risk of Kidnapped Soldiers, Israeli Military Uses Robots
2009.04.24: Having Your Eyes Opened
2009.04.22: Sharia and Militancy
2009.04.22: Iraq's Lingering Perils
2009.04.22: New Perils in Iraq
2009.04.21: Needed: An American Vision for East Asia and the U.S.-ROK Alliance
2009.04.21: STRATEGIC NUCLEAR TARGETS
2009.04.21: Who Has the Will to Fight Piracy? By Brian Michael Jenkins
2009.04.19: US Military EMP Fanatics
2009.04.18: Torturing Excused, the Sequel
2009.04.17: Torturing Excused
2009.04.16: Afghanistan’s National Security Forces
2009.04.16: Buy America Blues
2009.04.15: THE IRAN A-BOMB SCAM
2009.04.15: India's Electoral Politics
2009.04.14: Battling Pirates
2009.04.13: UN Security Council Response to North Korea's Missile Test: Washington's Policy Debate
2009.04.09: Alternatives for Defense Spending
2009.04.09: Human Rights Reporting and U.S. Foreign Policy
2009.04.08: A New Kind of Aid for Pakistan
2009.04.06: North Korea's Missile Test: Off-target?
2009.04.05: The Meaning of the North Korean Missile Launch
2009.04.04: Pakistan: Switching Enemies
2009.04.02: NATO AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
2009.04.01: The Torture Debate, Redux
2009.03.31: Twenty Agendas at G-20
2009.03.31: What's Next for NATO?
2009.03.30: The Group of 20
2009.03.26: Extreme Threats
2009.03.24: France's Creeping Reintegration by F. Stephen Larrabee
2009.03.24: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization
2009.03.24: Primer: The Financial Stability Plan
2009.03.23: Engaging Russia
2009.03.23: Islam: Governing Under Sharia
2009.03.20: The Troubled Afghan-Pakistani Border
2009.03.20: Breaking the Stalemate in Afghanistan
2009.03.19: Debating a 'Clean Coal' Future
2009.03.18: Potential Costs of Obama Administration
2009.03.18: National Missile Defense: A Status Report
2009.03.18: Missile Defense Technology
2009.03.16: The Dangers of 'Deglobalization'
2009.03.16: Are the US and Russia Playing Nuclear Games
2009.03.13: Policy Priorities for the G-20
2009.03.13: G-20 Policy Priorities
2009.03.13: Cybersecurity--Not So Sure
2009.03.12: Pakistan's Fragile Foundations
2009.03.12: French Military Strategy and NATO Reintegration
2009.03.11: U.S.-Cuba Relations
2009.03.10: Homeland Security Grant Dollars Analyzed
2009.03.09: Bosnia: What Is To Be Done?
2009.03.07: Catastrophic Threats
2009.03.06: Tibet's Tense Anniversary
2009.03.06: A Russian Key
2009.03.06: A Costly Exit from Iraq
2009.03.05: Will More Troops Fix Afghanistan?
2009.03.04: Arrest warrants for Bashir: Sudan election challenge by Linda Bishai
2009.03.04: Dancing with Damascus: Washington Engages by David Schenker
2009.03.04: After Indictment, Sudan Holds Its Breath
2009.03.03: The Meaning of Nationalization
2009.03.02: Overhauling Homeland Security
2009.02.28: A Vision for Pakistan
2009.02.27: Al-Shabaab
2009.02.26: Mitchell vs. Abrams: Can-do vs. Can't-do on Middle East Peace
2009.02.26: The Fine Print on Defense Spending
2009.02.25: ASEAN: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
2009.02.24: Moving America: Transport Infrastructure at a Crossroads
2009.02.24: Transportation Infrastructure: Moving America
2009.02.24: The Obama Template
2009.02.23: Israel's Lieberman: Regional fear-factor by Ori Nir
2009.02.20: Cooperating with China
2009.02.19: Surge At Home
2009.02.19: A few challenges in Afghanistan
2009.02.19: NATO in Afghanistan
2009.02.18: Modified Food's Moment?
2009.02.16: How Green is Thy Stimulus?
2009.02.13: Sudan's Fractured Internal Politics
2009.02.13: The Sri Lankan Conflict
2009.02.12: Closing Guantanamo
2009.02.11: And the loser is.... Israel. Again. By Ori Nir
2009.02.11: Israel’s Political System
2009.02.10: Israeli Election: Possible Scenarios
2009.02.10: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (aka Tamil Tigers) (Sri Lanka, separatists)
2009.02.06: Iran and the Future of Afghanistan
2009.02.05: Pakistan's Fickle War
2009.02.05: Pakistan's Muddled War
2009.02.04: Immigration's Elephant
2009.02.04: China's Military Power
2009.02.04: Countering China's Military Modernization
2009.02.02: Strategic Myopia
2009.02.02: Europe's Energy Predicament
2009.01.30: Gloomy Portents for Global Trade
2009.01.29: Iraq’s Political Landscape
2009.01.28: Sovereign Wealth Funds
2009.01.28: North Korea After Kim
2009.01.26: Combating Maritime Piracy
2009.01.26: The U.S. Economic Stimulus Plan
2009.01.22: Searching for an Afghan Strategy
2009.01.19: President Obama and the World
2009.01.16: Challenges Ahead for the EU's Security and Defense Policy
2009.01.16: A Tale of Two Africas
2009.01.15: Climate Policy in the Age of Obama
2009.01.14: Getting Smart on Intelligence Reform
2009.01.09: Finding a Place for the ‘Sons of Iraq’
2009.01.09: Tech-Savvy Terror
2009.01.09: Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence
2009.01.08: The Iranian Veto on Mideast Peace
2009.01.07: Healing U.S. Healthcare
2009.01.07: Hamas
2009.01.05: Beyond Gaza
2009.01.02: Obama's Pakistan Challenge
2008.12.31: Change Converging on Cuba?
2008.12.30: Healthcare Costs and U.S. Competitiveness
2008.12.23: Obama's North Korea Dilemma
2008.12.22: Imagining Obama's Africa Policy
2008.12.17: Talking to Tehran
2008.12.17: Judging Guantanamo: The Court, Congress, and the White House
2008.12.15: The Rebirth of Industrial Policy
2008.12.12: Democracy Troubles in Southeast Asia
2008.12.11: Saudi Arabia and the Future of Afghanistan
2008.12.10: Vietnam's Economic Hiccups
2008.12.10: Beginning of Iraq Endgame
2008.12.09: Troubles Plague UN Human Rights Council
2008.12.08: Challenges to Globalizing Natural Gas
2008.12.05: The African Growth and Opportunity Act
2008.12.03: James L. Jones, National Security Adviser Nominee
2008.12.03: Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General Nominee
2008.12.03: Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General
2008.12.03: Robert M. Gates, Defense Secretary Nominee
2008.12.03: Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary
2008.12.03: Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary Nominee
2008.12.02: Profile: Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure) (a.k.a. Lashkar e-Tayyiba, Lashkar e-Toiba; Lashkar-i-Taiba)
2008.12.02: A Pakistan Connection?
2008.12.01: U.S. Trade Policy in Transition
2008.12.01: Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State Nominee
2008.12.01: Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State
2008.11.27: Terror Groups in India
2008.11.27: Counterterrorism in India
2008.11.27: The ISI and Terrorism: Behind the Accusations
2008.11.25: Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary
2008.11.25: Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary Nominee
2008.11.21: Mexico's Spreading Drug Violence
2008.11.20: Financial Crisis May Worsen Poverty in China, India
2008.11.20: Turkey at an Energy Crossroads
2008.11.19: The Road Ahead in Afghanistan
2008.11.18: Defense Spending During Economic Crisis
2008.11.17: U.S. Security Agreements and Iraq
2008.11.17: Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) (Spain, separatists, Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
2008.11.13: Relaunching Capitalism
2008.11.11: The Oil Investment Dilemma
2008.11.10: Eastern Congo on the Brink
2008.11.07: A Tribal Strategy for Afghanistan
2008.11.07: After the Troops
2008.11.07: RAW: India's External Intelligence Agency
2008.11.06: Emerging Markets, Converging Fears
2008.11.04: Presidential Transitions and Foreign Policy
2008.11.03: Issue Guide: U.S. Election and International Issues
2008.10.31: Issue Guide: Financial Policy
2008.10.31: Issue Guide: Pakistan and U.S. Policy
2008.10.30: Climate Policy Prospects Follow Markets South
2008.10.29: Currency Conundrums
2008.10.28: With Oil Down, Will Iran Follow?
2008.10.27: Capitalism in Crisis
2008.10.23: India-Afghanistan Relations

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