Intelligence

God Bless Bob Woodward

In praise of investigative reporting.

BY MICAH ZENKO | MARCH 12, 2013

Gray Matter

How to fight Chinese cyber attacks without starting a cold war.

BY JOEL BRENNER | 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

Inside the Black Box

How the NSA is helping companies fight back against Chinese hackers.

BY MARC AMBINDER | MARCH 7, 2013

A Clear View from Foggy Bottom

How State Department analysts  -- and no one else -- foresaw the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

BY WILLIAM BURR | MARCH 5, 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

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

Think Again: The Pentagon

The military's Chicken Littles want you to think the sky is falling. Don't believe them: America has never been safer.

BY THOMAS P.M. BARNETT | MARCH 4, 2013

Cleaning up a Dirty War

What America's anti-torture advocates can learn from Argentina's darkest days.

BY ALEXANDRA STARR | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The First Rule of Drone Club

The bad lessons Turkey learned from Obama's war from above.

BY AARON STEIN | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Listening In

New revelations at Guantánamo show the walls have ears, and justice is being made a mockery.

BY LAURA PITTER | FEBRUARY 21, 2013

#Unfollow

The case for kicking terrorists off Twitter.

BY J.M. BERGER | FEBRUARY 20, 2013

House of Cards Is a House of Cards

Why can't Americans do political intrigue like the Brits?

BY EMMA G. KELLER | FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Killing Isn't Cool

Why the Pentagon hates Obama's drone war.

BY MICAH ZENKO | FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Tough Witness

John Brennan delivers a smart, but vague, performance.

BY AMY ZEGART | FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Enhance This Interrogation

The Senate confirmation hearings need to get to the bottom of the truth about CIA chief nominee John Brennan.

BY ANDREA J. PRASOW | FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Not Just Another Movie

Zero Dark Thirty lies. End of story.

BY AMY ZEGART | JANUARY 30, 2013

Buzz Bomb

Why everyone's wrong about Assad's zombie gas.

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | JANUARY 25, 2013

Obama's Moment of Truth on Iran

Congratulations, Mr. President. Now it's time to make good on your promise to engage Iran.

BY REZA MARASHI | JANUARY 22, 2013

Turing Test

Can you beat the father of artificial intelligence at Monopoly?

BY MICHAEL PECK | JANUARY 18, 2013

The 'Dynamite' Pentagon Interview Behind 'Zero Dark Thirty'

Michael Vickers 'delivered' for the movie.

BY NATE JONES | JANUARY 17, 2013

The Three Most Dangerous Things About Threat Lists

What the pundits and analysts don't tell you.

BY AMY ZEGART | JANUARY 16, 2013

Why the Left Should Embrace John Brennan

The architect of the drone program is the only one who can fix it.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JANUARY 9, 2013

The Answer Man

A Washington power-read on John Brennan.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 7, 2013

A 'Zero Option' for Afghanistan

Yes, President Karzai, we might pull out completely.

BY DAVID W. BARNO | JANUARY 7, 2013

The Year in Intelligence

And the most important national security story you missed in 2012.

BY AMY ZEGART | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Year in Quotes

The 20 most puzzling, hypocritical, and revealing things said about U.S. foreign policy in 2012.

BY MICAH ZENKO | DECEMBER 28, 2012

Lingering Questions on Benghazi

This week's report on the Obama administration's actions in Libya was credible but incomplete.

BY DARRELL ISSA | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Zero Farce Thirty

The man who nearly stopped 9/11 tells FP why Kathryn Bigelow's movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden gets it wrong.  

INTERVIEW BY TY MCCORMICK | DECEMBER 19, 2012

Spoiler Alert

I know counterterrorism and the CIA -- and almost everything in Homeland is ridiculous. But I'm still watching.

BY BRUCE HOFFMAN | DECEMBER 18, 2012