Clik here to view.
Made in America
Carl J. Schramm INNOVATION AND the founding of the United States were good for one another. The American Revolution and the subsequent creation of the Constitution were in part byproducts of the...
View ArticleAvoiding Pyongyang
Doug BandowAfter an investigation of nearly two months, the Republic of Korea (ROK) has concluded that North Korea torpedoed the Cheonan, a corvette that sank in the Yellow Sea in late March. Today,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Warrior Ethos
Bing WestDavid J. Kilcullen, Counterinsurgency (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 272 pp., $15.95.Ted Morgan, Valley ofDeath: The Tragedy atDien Bien Phu That LedAmerica into the Vietnam War...
View ArticleSeoul Can Defend Itself
Doug BandowAny normal country would be embarrassed. South Korea has the world’s thirteenth-largest economy, is a member of the G-20 and has pretensions of being a global power. But the government of...
View ArticleDeparting Europe
Doug BandowSince the formation of NATO more than sixty years ago the Europeans have scrimped on defense. With an essentially bankrupt continent desperately cutting back on government spending, Europe’s...
View ArticleAmerican Jihad, Part II
Bruce HoffmanSeveral disquieting trends converged in New York City’s fabled Times Square entertainment district last May. First, a foreign terrorist group, with a hitherto local agenda and otherwise...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don't Rush START
Dimitri K. SimesDov S. Zakheim Senator John Kerry is absolutely right that “even in these polarized times,” responsible statesmen “should know that the security of the United States is too important to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
St. Peter and the Minarets
Harvey CoxURBI ET Orbi (“for the city and for the world”) is the traditional blessing the pope offers on special occasions. Although he has at times pronounced it in other venues—St. John Lateran, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yemen: Ten Years After the USS Cole Bombing
Christopher BoucekTen years ago, a U.S. Navy destroyer was bombed while refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden. The suicide attack killed seventeen American sailors and injured thirty-nine. Since the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Next Terrorist Attacks
Paul R. PillarWith the news that a suburban Virginia man—a Pakistani-born naturalized U.S. citizen—has been arrested for surveilling stations of the Washington area's Metrorail system as preparation...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Al Qaeda and the Unabomber
Paul R. PillarTwo package bombs sent from Yemen have touched off the latest flurry of commentary about the nature of terrorist threats currently facing the United States and from whence those threats...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mafiosi in the Caucasus
Thomas de WaalThere are issues that get talked about in public and ones that exercise minds in private. Thanks to the WikiLeaked cables we now know how worried U.S. embassies in the former Soviet Union...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Drug War's Colombia Model
Ted Galen CarpenterFlickr/rabbits on chairs.Drug war enthusiasts have argued for years that Colombia’s victory over that country’s powerful cartels in the 1990s is a model for Mexico’s current war...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Al Qaeda Cancer
Jonathan E. Hillman“We have slowed a primary cancer,” U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said recently, referring to Al Qaeda, “but we know that the cancer has also metastasized to other parts of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vigilantes Against Mexico's Cartels
Ted Galen CarpenterU.S. politicians and much of the news media understandably have been preoccupied with the recent nerve-wracking developments involving North Korea. However, there are important...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mexican Drug Lord Captured—So What?
Ted Galen CarpenterU.S. and Mexican officials are in full celebratory mode following the capture of Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, the head of Mexico’s infamous, extraordinarily violent Zetas drug...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will Afghanistan Take Central Asia Down with It?
Scott RadnitzMarlene LaruelleWhile U.S. foreign-policy makers are currently preoccupied with the Middle East—chaos in Egypt, raging civil war in Syria and ongoing violence in Libya—military strategists...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don't Blame American Guns for Mexico's Drug War
Ted Galen CarpenterMexico’s illegal-drug trade and the accompanying violence there and in neighboring Central American countries is again a hot topic for members of the foreign-policy community in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Afghanistan Doesn't Trust Nawaz Sharif
Javid AhmadAfghan and Pakistani leaders met for critical talks last month as President Hamid Karzai traveled to Islamabad to sit down with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. It was Karzai’s first visit to...
View Article
