Military

The Indispensible Nation's Indispensible Weapon

Obama can't live without drones, Pakistan can't live with 'em. Which makes it all the more surprising that he bowed to the Islamic street.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 24, 2013

Authorize This

Can Obama put the war on terror on a new legal footing?

BY ROSA BROOKS | MAY 23, 2013

The War for the Arab World

Sunni-Shiite hatreds are the least of the Middle East's problems -- it's the struggle within the Sunni world that will define the region for years to come.

BY MARC LYNCH | MAY 23, 2013

Pulp Liberation Army

Welcome to the strange -- and terrifying -- underground world of Chinese military fantasy novels.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH, HELEN GAO | MAY 23, 2013

Flexible Spending Account

How the Pentagon is wriggling its way through sequestration.

BY GORDON ADAMS | MAY 23, 2013

The War Professor

Can Obama finally make the legal case for his war on terror?

BY ROSA BROOKS | MAY 23, 2013

Our Military, Ourselves

Why Americans are to blame for the Pentagon's outrageous sex scandals.

BY MICAH ZENKO, AMELIA MAE WOLF | MAY 21, 2013

War Scare

The real-life war game that almost led to nuclear armageddon.

BY NATE JONES | MAY 21, 2013

Metternich in Baghdad

No, America hasn't "lost" Iraq. But a dangerous realpolitik is the new normal in Baghdad.

BY RAMZY MARDINI | MAY 20, 2013

What the Hell Was That All About?

After scaring the world witless, has North Korea slunk back into its cave?

BY AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER | MAY 20, 2013

Curing America's Fear of Commitment

Karzai is an ingrate, but the Afghans need us.

BY MARC CHRETIEN | MAY 20, 2013

Burma's Web-Savvy Rebels

How Burmese insurgent groups are using China's version of Twitter to fight their war.

BY PATRICK BOEHLER | MAY 20, 2013

The Unstoppable Force vs. the Immovable Object

Could the United States really go to war with China?

BY NOAH FELDMAN | MAY 16, 2013

Breaking the Kill Chain

How to keep America in the game when our enemies are trying to shut us out.

BY ADM. JONATHAN GREENERT, GEN. MARK WELSH | MAY 16, 2013

Death Wears Bunny Slippers

Why America's nuclear missileers are going soft.

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | MAY 16, 2013

Yes, Iraq Is Unraveling

And it's about to become Obama's problem all over again.

BY MICHAEL KNIGHTS | MAY 15, 2013

A Liberal Case for Drones

Why human rights advocates should stop worrying about the phantom fear of autonomy.

BY JOSHUA FOUST | MAY 14, 2013

Is This the Most Disgusting Atrocity Filmed in the Syrian Civil War?

What we know about the Syrian rebel commander captured on video ripping out and eating the heart of a pro-Assad fighter.

BY PETER BOUCKAERT | MAY 13, 2013

How Do You Say 'Quagmire' in Farsi?

Why Syria could turn out to be Iran's Vietnam -- not America's.

BY THANASSIS CAMBANIS | MAY 13, 2013

Beijing's 'Bitskrieg'

How China is revolutionizing warfare.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | MAY 13, 2013

The Trust Deficit

How the U.S. 'pivot' to Asia looks from Beijing.

BY HE YAFEI | MAY 13, 2013

Janus in Islamabad

Is Pakistan's once and likely future prime minister someone the United States can work with?

BY EMILY CADEI | MAY 11, 2013

From Winterfell to King's Landing

How the cartography of Game of Thrones explains the world.

BY FRANK JACOBS | MAY 10, 2013

Pakistan’s Rollercoaster Election

Is this a generationally significant change of power, or more of the same dysfunction?

BY MICHAEL KUGELMAN | MAY 10, 2013

The Electric Kool-Aid Flashback Test

Should we arm the Syrian rebels? America's attempts to do so in the past hold a few answers.

BY ROSA BROOKS | MAY 9, 2013

Talking in Circles

Why Harold Koh's big speech on targeted killings is just more of the same, intentional Obama muddle.

BY MICAH ZENKO | MAY 9, 2013

Russia's New Tip of the Spear

What's got the Kremlin so worried that it created a Special Operations Command?

BY DMITRI TRENIN | MAY 8, 2013

The Great Sino-Indian Alpine Tent Party of 2013

China's latest border squabble with India might seem trivial, but the consequences could set Asia on edge.

BY DHRUVA JAISHANKAR | MAY 8, 2013

The Case for Nuclear Unilateralism

New START may be flawed, but it also holds an opportunity for Obama to do something truly momentous.

BY YOUSAF BUTT | MAY 8, 2013

Outsourcing Lethality

When there's a foreign finger on the trigger, is Washington still accountable when innocents die?

BY MICAH ZENKO | MAY 7, 2013