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India's Ocean
Could New Delhi's growing naval force change the balance of power in the Pacific?
BY DHRUVA JAISHANKAR | DECEMBER 6, 2012
Why Assad Won’t Use His Chemical Weapons
And why you should still be worried.
BY CHARLES P. BLAIR | DECEMBER 6, 2012
The New Border: Illegal Immigration’s Shifting Frontier
As the net flow of immigrants from Mexico nears zero, violent and impoverished Central American countries have emerged as the fastest-rising source of illegal immigrants to the U.S.
BY SEBASTIAN ROTELLA | DECEMBER 6, 2012
Is it Legal for the Military to Patrol American Networks?
Posse Comitatus meets the 21st century.
BY TIM MAURER | DECEMBER 5, 2012
The Big Kill
Sorry, Steven Pinker, the world isn't getting less violent.
BY JOHN ARQUILLA | DECEMBER 3, 2012
Bibi Can't Lose
It's Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel. All of his rivals just live in it.
BY NATAN B. SACHS | NOVEMBER 30, 2012
Launch Your Own Gaza War
Help us field-test 'A Reign of Missiles.'
BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 27, 2012
In Rebel Country
How did 1,000 skinny militiamen in rubber boots conquer a city of 1 million people in a matter of hours?
BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Four More Years … in Exile
Can Republicans find their way out of the foreign-policy wilderness?
BY JOHN NORRIS | NOVEMBER 26, 2012
4 Digital Threats to Worry About
From hacktivism to cyberwarfare, the dangers that define the digital age.
BY EUGENE KASPERSKY | DECEMBER 2012
Overdone Turkey
The hype about Ankara as a regional leader is way overblown.
BY STEVEN A. COOK | NOVEMBER 21, 2012
Trouble on the Home Front
The Petraeuses aren’t the military family we should be worried about.
BY KATHY ROTH-DOUQUET | NOVEMBER 21, 2012
Israel 2012 vs. London 1944
What the buzz bomb can tell us about Iron Dome.
BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The More Things Change
Advances in Israeli weaponry haven't led to advances in Israeli strategy.
BY JEFFREY WHITE | NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Strategic Overreach
Emboldened by the Arab Spring's Sunni wave, Hamas has overplayed its hand in Gaza. But can its newly empowered neighbors tamp the fire?
BY JONATHAN SPYER | NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Panetta's Wrong About a Cyber 'Pearl Harbor'
The Internet doesn't work that way.
BY JOHN ARQUILLA | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Rockets' Red Glare
No, Iron Dome does not prove that "Star Wars" was right.
BY YOUSAF BUTT | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Still Think Middle East Peace Doesn't Matter?
Gaza's radiating instability proves once again that Palestine is at the center of the region's problems.
BY STEVEN A. COOK | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Winning the Stalemate
In Gaza, both sides are benefitting from the violence.
BY DANIEL BYMAN | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
How Hamas Won the War
It doesn’t really matter if Israel wins the battle.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Small Arms, Big Problems
Western assault rifles are showing up in the hands of Islamist fighters in Gaza. It's a cautionary tale for arms-exporting countries across the globe.
BY DAMIEN SPLEETERS | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Words Are Weapons of Mass Destruction
Why Hamas should watch its language.
BY DAVID KEYES | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
A Pillar of Problems
Eight questions about the Israel-Gaza conflict we still don't have a good handle on.
BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Silent but Deadly
How the State Department tried and failed to force Obama’s drone program into the open.
BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Is Bashar al-Assad Syria’s Abraham Lincoln?
The Syrian president's fans are comparing him with the hero of America's Civil War. Here's why they're wrong.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 14, 2012
Broken Record
David Petraeus had critics before scandal struck -- they just tended to fly under the radar.
BY URI FRIEDMAN, ELIAS GROLL, TY MCCORMICK | NOVEMBER 14, 2012
Dempsey's Paradox
The world is getting less violent. So why do we feel so threatened?
BY MICAH ZENKO | NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Shaken, Not Stirred by CIA 'Values'
Why do the CIA director's peccadilloes rile us more than his policies?
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | NOVEMBER 12, 2012
China's Other Transition
What we still don't know about the Chinese military.
BY DEAN CHENG | NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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