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The Pentagon’s fixation on long-range strikes is shortsighted

If the experience of the past five years means anything, it is that the Long War for the greater Middle East is most likely …

Looking stabilization square in the face

Old vaudevillians say dying is easy but comedy is hard. For American armed forces, conventional warfare is relatively easy, but stabilization and reconstruction operations are hard. …

The new struggle for Africa

frica has suffered many curses, from massive corruption to AIDS to dysfunctional borders drawn by cynical Europeans. Oppression, illiteracy, deadly ethnic and religious rivalries — Africa’s litany …

Bridging the chasm between military and civilian worlds

Nathaniel Fick’s account of his time as a Marine Corps officer stands as a monument to this generation of warriors. Using vivid prose to …

Rice’s offer to negotiate with Iran gets Congress off the hook

The sense of relief that washed over Capitol Hill in early June was unmistakable, propelled by news that President Bush, in …

I would like to add a few comments to Tom Donnelly’s well-thought-out and well-articulated editorial, “Won’t get fooled again” [May].

I personally know and have worked with three of the eight general …

The essence of every profession is expressed in the writings of its unifying theorists: Freud for psychology, Adam Smith on economics, Justice Marshall on law, and — depending on one’s preferences — …

Deputy assistant secretary of state for “public diplomacy” — we are not making this up — for characterizing what might be described as the “assisted suicides” of three Guantanamo detainees as a …

For nominating Pentagon General Counsel William Haynes for a seat on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In his Pentagon post, Haynes has been one of the principal architects of administration policy …

What do we want our surface fleet to do for us?

Shipbuilding has been one of the biggest conundrums of post-Cold War defense planning, and the Defense Department’s confusion seems only to …