Intelligence

Strange Bedfellows

China's problems in Xinjiang are forcing it to reach out to India. But does India care?

BY BAHUKUTUMBI RAMAN | AUGUST 31, 2009

Sound the Alarm

How to stop Burma from getting nukes.

BY CATHERINE COLLINS | JULY 24, 2009

Do Targeted Killings Work?

Drone strikes are far from perfect -- but they're also far better than nothing.

BY DANIEL BYMAN | JULY 14, 2009

The Fatalist

The man reshaping how U.S. intelligence views the future.

BY LAURA ROZEN | APRIL 15, 2009

How (Not) to Spot a Terrorist

Catching al Qaeda's killers is about to become a whole lot harder. Why? Because their rank and file will soon look just like you and me.

BY MALCOLM NANCE | APRIL 10, 2008

Spies for Hire

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Israel's Secret War

BY EPHRAIM KAM | DECEMBER 13, 2007

How To Make a Spy

For 60 years, the United States has struggled and failed to create a first-rate secret intelligence service. Few agents can haggle in a foreign bazaar or even hope to understand rapid-fire Arabic. It may be hard to find the proper skills among the present generation of young Americans. But it would not be impossible to create them.

BY TIM WEINER | AUGUST 15, 2007

Artificial Intelligence

BY JASON VEST | JANUARY 4, 2006

Spies Like Us

BY JAMES FORSYTH | JANUARY 4, 2006

The FP Memo: Wanted: Spies Unlike Us

The CIA must cultivate foreign sources, reward service overseas, and tap America's top students to once again get good information on enemies of the United States.

BY ROBERT BAER | MARCH 1, 2005

Think Again: Al Qaeda

The mere mention of al Qaeda conjures images of an efficient terrorist network guided by a powerful criminal mastermind. Yet al Qaeda is more lethal as an ideology than as an organization. "Al Qaedaism" will continue to attract supporters in the years to come -- whether Osama bin Laden is around to lead them or not.

BY JASON BURKE | MAY 1, 2004

Intelligence Test

BY RICHARD J. ALDRICH | JANUARY 1, 2003

Who Left the Light On?

MARCH 1, 2002

Smarter Intelligence

What's needed to fix U.S. counterterrorism intelligence? Not more spies nor the power to assassinate terrorist leaders, say two former CIA officials. Instead, start by giving the director of central intelligence the authority to break down the walls that divide domestic and foreign intelligence gathering.

BY JOHN DEUTCH, JEFFREY H. SMITH | JANUARY 1, 2002

Collateral Damage

Sorting through the post-September 11 intellectual wreckage.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | NOVEMBER 1, 2001

Writing Wrongs

MAY 1, 2001

Think Again: Spies

Virtually every nation resorts to the "dark arts" of espionage to protect its government, economy, and citizens. But with the end of superpower conflict, the spread of democracy, the advent of new information technologies, and the emergence of a more transparent world, the central question about spying today is whether it is still necessary.

BY LOCH K. JOHNSON | SEPTEMBER 1, 2000

The Spy Who Loved Globalization

James Bond was wrestling with forces of integration and fragmentation decades before political scientists invented the ideas.

BY DAVID C. EARNEST, JAMES N. ROSENAU | SEPTEMBER 1, 2000