Military

Pressed

The propaganda war in Kuwait.

BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 12, 2013

The Rough Guide to Iraq

A journalist's strange journey on the road to Baghdad.

BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 12, 2013

Smaller Is Smarter

Military drawdowns have driven innovation for millennia.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | MARCH 11, 2013

The Global Swarm

Drones are not only spreading to other countries, they're becoming smaller and smarter.

BY P.W. SINGER | MARCH 11, 2013

Wanted: Ph.D.s Who Can Win a Bar Fight

How to reform the Pentagon for "light footprint" interventions.

BY FERNANDO M. LUJÁN | MARCH 8, 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

Military Review

How Chuck Hagel can show the generals who's boss.

BY GORDON ADAMS | 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 Player, but No Superpower

Why China's military is a threat to its neighbors, but shouldn't concern the United States on its home turf.

BY ANDREW S. ERICKSON, ADAM P. LIFF | 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

Tehran Tanking

Iran's popularity in the Arab world is way down, but sectarianism is on the rise.

BY MARC LYNCH | 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

Why Being So Right Feels So Bad

Why did it take the State Department 10 years and billions of dollars to figure out that Iraq reconstruction was a massive failure?

BY PETER VAN BUREN | MARCH 6, 2013

Gentle Giant

Why isn’t India spending more on its military?

BY DHRUVA JAISHANKAR | MARCH 6, 2013

Speak Softly and Let Others Carry the Big Stick

The problem with the 'light footprint' approach to U.S. military policy.

BY JONATHAN MORGENSTEIN | MARCH 6, 2013

What Have We Learned About Xi Jinping?

China’s new leader has consolidated his power. So what is he going to do with it?

BY KERRY BROWN | MARCH 5, 2013

Caveat Preemptor

How Obama has adopted the Bush doctrine.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | 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

The FP Survey: The Future of War

FP polls the world's top military thinkers on everything from cyberwar to shrinking budgets.

PRODUCED BY ELIAS GROLL, MARGARET SLATTERY | MARCH 4, 2013

Lessons Learned (and Not)

Seven things we've learned after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MARCH 4, 2013

The Evolution of Uncle Sam

How U.S. military recruitment posters have changed over the past 150 years.

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

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Democracy is in retreat. And there's a surprising culprit.

BY JOSHUA KURLANTZICK | MARCH 4, 2013

What Happened in Luvungi?

On rape and truth in Congo.

BY LAURA HEATON | 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

Give Us the Weapons We Need to Beat Assad

The chief of staff of the opposition Syrian Military Joint Command calls on the United States to provide arms, not just non-lethal aid.

BY SALIM IDRIS | MARCH 1, 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

It’s Not an Intifada

Palestinians aren't ready to rise up -- yet.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | FEBRUARY 28, 2013