Energy appetite fuels Beijing’s plans to protect vital sea lines

The reason for skyrocketing gasoline prices isn’t the greed of oil-company executives — it’s something over which we have even less control: …

Nonwords, like any other locution, come in and out of style. There was quite a

lot of concepting in 2001 and 2002 — for FCS, for the Multi-Role Armament &

Ammunition System, …

For nominating Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to replace former congressman Porter Goss as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hayden is undoubtedly a superb officer and manager, but he suffers from …

"Iraqi Army Will Be Built by End Of the Year," read the headline in today’s New York Times. According to Lt. Gen Martin Dempsey, who runs the training mission in Baghdad, the …

In this issue you will find a “new AFJ.” The new look is designed to confirm the larger change in the magazine’s content that has taken place over recent months. Conceived by …

How a better Middle East would look

International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference …

"The man was thrown backward by automatic weapons fire, his eyes blindfolded and his arms tied behind his back, his skull jerked upward at the neck, his fleshless mouth gaping, his two …

The indefatigable U.S. ambassador to Iraq — and, lest we forget, previously envoy to Afghanistan — for helping engineer a government of “national unity” in Baghdad and the agreement by which Nuri …

It has been, to put it very mildly, a busy week in The Long War; there have been important developments on many fronts. Consider just some of the highlights:

Last Saturday, Canadian …

The war in Iraq will not, as President Bush has recognized, end with a formal, World-War-II-style, surrender ceremony. (And if U.S. troops withdraw, it will end after we’re gone, when one coalition …