
The New Rules of War
The visionary who first saw the age of "netwar" coming warns that the U.S. military is getting it wrong all over again. Here’s his plan to make conflict cheaper, smaller, and smarter.
By John Arquilla
In this exclusive collection of work, acclaimed conflict photographers explain how they captured pictures worth a thousand words.
From the bloody civil wars in Africa to the rag-tag insurgiences in Southeast Asia, 33 conflicts are raging around the world today, and it’s often innocent civilians who suffer the most.
By KAYVAN FARZANEH, ANDREW SWIFT, PETER WILLIAMS
Cutting-edge commentary on the changing nature of conflict.
By Edward Luttwak
By Andrew J. Bacevich
By Jeffrey Gettleman
Why the wars on cancer, poverty, drugs, terror, drunk driving, teen pregnancy, and other ills can't be won.
By MoisÉs NaÍm
What I learned in eight years reading propaganda from inside the Hermit Kingdom.
By B.R. Myers
The good ayatollah
By Abbas Milani
By Davide Cantoni
By Colum Lynch
By Clive Baldwin
Presidential Debate
Former President Jimmy Carter and his former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski respond to Walter Russell Mead's "The Carter Syndrome."
Sitting in Limbo
The government of Abkhazia and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization take issue with Graeme Wood's "Limbo World."
Nuclear Exchange
Ken Adelman thinks John Mueller is too dismissive of the nuclear threat.
The 4 key points of Barack Obama's counterterrorism speech

BY JOHN HUDSON
Forget the Sunni-Shiite divide. It's the inter-Sunni conflicts you should watch.

Can Haiti's president lead his fractured country out of crisis?

BY RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL
High-ranking Chinese official asks: Why are Jews so smart?

BY ISAAC STONE FISH
The Pentagon is wriggling its way out of sequestration

America's natural gas boom is bad news for China
BY CHARLES R. MORRIS
On suicide, sexual harassment, and command: A Naval officer's experience
BY 'A. NAVAL OFFICER'