Obama Administration
To COIN or Not?
A decade later, what lessons haven't we learned from the war in Iraq that we should?
MARCH 18, 2013
Lost in the Desert
What does the Obama administration make of Egypt's Mohamed Morsy? Not much. But they've still got to figure out how to work with him.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 15, 2013
Iraq Roundtable Participants
MARCH 15, 2013
Ends and Means
A decade later, what lessons haven't we learned from the war in Iraq that we should?
MARCH 15, 2013
Mission Creep in the War on Terror
The case against giving the president even more power to use force.
BY ROSA BROOKS | MARCH 14, 2013
What Vali Nasr Gets Wrong
A former State Department insider has written a blistering account of the Obama administration’s missteps in Afghanistan. But is he right?
BY SARAH CHAYES | MARCH 12, 2013
How Not to Repair a Broken Pot
The lesson of Iraq isn't that American intervention only makes things worse; it's that there's a smarter way to do it.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 8, 2013
It's Not You, It's Me
America's nukes are designed to comfort us, not scare the enemy.
BY JEFFREY LEWIS | MARCH 8, 2013
Round One Goes to the Budget Hawks
How the neocons lost the sequester battle -- but maybe not the war.
BY CHRISTOPHER PREBLE | MARCH 7, 2013
A Very Special Envoy
Why Obama should make Dennis Rodman his man in Pyongyang. Seriously.
BY JOEL WIT, JENNY TOWN | MARCH 7, 2013
A First Draft of the Third War
Why President Obama should commission a history of targeted killing.
BY MICAH ZENKO | MARCH 6, 2013
The Inside Story of How the White House Let Diplomacy Fail in Afghanistan
"My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience."
BY VALI NASR | MARCH 4, 2013
The Prince of the White House
Eleven rules for how Barack Obama, or any U.S. president, can have his way on national security.
BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS | MARCH 4, 2013
Mad Libs: War Edition
FP asked more than 70 top military thinkers to fill in the blanks on the world's global conflicts -- from the drone wars to the budget wars.
MARCH 4, 2013
Obama's Grand Strategy
America's relative decline means that defense and social spending will have to compete head to head, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
MARCH 4, 2013
Let Them Eat Subsidies
The Obama administration could revolutionize aid and save billions -- if only Congress would stand up to the farm lobby.
BY JOHN NORRIS | MARCH 1, 2013
Want to Work in the White House?
The unofficial guide to getting a job in the Obama administration.
BY ROSA BROOKS | FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Dead-End Road
Rogue states have a pretty convincing track record of ignoring sanctions, so what makes Congress and the White House think they'll work on Iran?
BY TY MCCORMICK | FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Welcome to the Middle East, Mr. Secretary
What John Kerry needs to know about his first assignment.
BY MARC LYNCH | FEBRUARY 28, 2013
26 Days Later
On March 27, the sequester will rise from the dead.
BY GORDON ADAMS | FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Ending the Syrian War
It’s time for the United States to do what is necessary to bring down Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
BY SEN. ROBERT P. CASEY, JR. | FEBRUARY 27, 2013
How Not to Withdraw from Afghanistan
Lessons from America's other war.
BY JIM MCDERMOTT, LAWRENCE WILKERSON | FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Does John Kerry Matter?
Why Obama's new secretary of state might not have much room to run.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Nuclear Deference
How Obama can convince Moscow he's not out to ruin Russia.
BY DMITRI TRENIN | FEBRUARY 21, 2013
The Price of Hagel
Could this nomination fight change the electoral map in 2016?
BY HEATHER HURLBURT | FEBRUARY 19, 2013
Why America Reserves the Right to Nuke You First
And why it shouldn't.
BY JOHN ARQUILLA | FEBRUARY 19, 2013
The indispensable nation's indispensable weapon
BY JAMES TRAUB
Why Obama hasn't exactly won the war on homegrown terrorism
BY JANE HARMAN
Did Turkey just become a little more like Texas?
BY MARYA HANNUN
Was the killing of a British soldier in London actually an act of terrorism?
BY H.A. HELLYER
WikiLeaks hits back at documentary with 'annotated transcript'
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Mystery solved: John Kerry really ate turkey shwarma
BY MARYA HANNUN
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