Commission outlines fundamental problems facing reserve component

Commission reports in Washington, D.C., are sort of like hookers at a Mardi Gras celebration. From a distance, they entice the inexperienced or unaware, but …

The Israel-Hezbollah clash and the shape of wars to come

The casus belli of the Second Lebanon War, as it is popularly referred to in Israel, was the ambush and kidnapping of …

“Dreams have a vise-like grip on the people of Islam. We never grasped that it was more useful to let our Muslims dream than to build them schools, hospitals and factories.”

“You’re …

East Africa could be the next haven for extremists

Since the early 1990s, the Horn of Africa — the descriptive name for the East African countries of Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea …

BY KAREN WALKER

The playground chant of "sticks and stones" is turned on its head in J. Michael Waller’s intriguing book "Fighting the War of Ideas Like a Real War," in which …

China’s milbloggers debate PLA modernization

A vibrant milblogging community in the People’s Republic of China, where all manners of speech are closely monitored and controlled, may seem unlikely. Chinese milbloggers, however, have …

Putin’s prods at the West belie its natural affinity withOld Europe

In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an unusually strong statement that openly blasted the U.S. and NATO. This led pundits …

For cozying up to Syrian President Bashar al-Asad with public handshakes and declarations that her delegation had come “in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to …

For blatantly circumventing the Senate confirmation process and unnecessarily inflaming Democrats at a time when the focus should be on the war debate. While lawmakers were on spring break, Bush used “emergency” …

AS WE HAVE SEEN, ANY ARGUMENT BASED ON STATISTICS naturally subjects itself to opposition using another set of statistics [“The GDP argument,” Inside the Beltway, March]. Tying defense spending to gross domestic …