National Security

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

How About We Take Their Word For It

Do we really want the North Koreans to prove they can launch a nuke with a missile?

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | APRIL 22, 2013

Small Cells vs. Big Data

Can information dominance crush terrorism?

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | APRIL 22, 2013

Boston's Jihadist Past

Long before the marathon bombing, Islamists in Massachusetts were helping militants in Chechnya.

BY J.M. BERGER | APRIL 22, 2013

Boston Common

Can the marathon bombing resuscitate U.S.-Russian counterterror efforts?

BY DMITRI TRENIN | APRIL 19, 2013

Displaced

What happened to the people who fled the terror in Chechnya.

BY JOSHUA FOUST | APRIL 19, 2013

Forget What You Think You Know

Would we even recognize an al Qaeda attack if we saw one?

BY ANDREW LIEPMAN | APRIL 18, 2013