National Security

The Case for Slow War

History shows that wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am rarely works out for the best.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | MAY 6, 2013

Time for Kerry to Face Facts

As America's top diplomat heads to Moscow, here are some tough questions he needs to answer about the Obama administration's flawed nuclear treaty.

BY ROBERT JOSEPH, ERIC EDELMAN | MAY 6, 2013

High Stakes and the Sequester Squeeze

When defense budgets get tight, politics can get a little complicated.

BY GORDON ADAMS | MAY 6, 2013

The Special Relationship Under Austerity

Increasing NATO's bang in a time of fewer bucks.

BY PHILIP HAMMOND | MAY 3, 2013

What a Piece of Junk!

Imperial investigators report weaknesses in Death Star management, performance.

BY MICHAEL PECK | MAY 3, 2013

Time to Talk

What Michael Singh gets wrong about "next steps" with Iran.

BY AMB. WILLIAM H. LUERS | MAY 3, 2013

Criminal Minds

Why the FBI still isn't good at stopping terrorists.

BY AMY ZEGART | MAY 3, 2013

Would Machiavelli Have Drawn a Red Line?

The case for subtle diplomacy.

BY ROSA BROOKS | MAY 2, 2013

Kabul's Unlikely New Ally

Has Pakistan decided it's finally time to embrace Afghanistan?

BY DANIEL SAGALYN | MAY 1, 2013

Thick Red Line

No, we don't have enough evidence that Syria has used chemical weapons.

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | MAY 1, 2013

What Was Obama Thinking?

How the administration backed itself into a corner on Syria.

BY BARRY PAVEL | MAY 1, 2013

Hawking Something

The Syria interventionists want us to go to war. They're wrong.

BY MICAH ZENKO | APRIL 30, 2013

How to Defeat Cyber Jihad

Taking the war on terrorism to the Internet.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | APRIL 29, 2013

When America Became a Cyberwarrior

A secret document shows the NSA has been planning attacks since the Clinton years.

BY JEFFREY T. RICHELSON, MALCOLM BYRNE | APRIL 26, 2013

Why America Still Needs Aircraft Carriers

The critics are wrong: Flattops are the platform of the future, not the past.

BY DAVID H. BUSS, WILLIAM F. MORAN, THOMAS J. MOORE | APRIL 26, 2013

How to Save the Republican Party

Why the GOP needs to stop navel-gazing and embrace internationalism all over again. 

BY SEN. JOHN MCCAIN | APRIL 26, 2013

Brief Interviews with Hideous Terrorists

What it's like to sit and talk with jihadists, neo-Nazis, and lone-wolf killers.

BY JESSICA STERN | APRIL 25, 2013

Should You Go to Law School?

The good, the bad, and the ugly about getting a J.D.

BY ROSA BROOKS | APRIL 25, 2013

Did the FBI Bungle the Tsarnaev Case?

What the bureau can and can't do on American soil.

BY DAVID GOMEZ | APRIL 25, 2013

The Defense Department in Sequesterland

The Pentagon will make it through sequestration better than most.

BY GORDON ADAMS | APRIL 23, 2013

What Is the Why

Does it really matter what motivated the Boston bombers? 

BY MICAH ZENKO | APRIL 23, 2013

Inspiration Inflation

We're all to blame for giving al Qaeda's magazine more credit than it's due.

BY J.M. BERGER | APRIL 23, 2013