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BY PIR ZUBAIR SHAH
10 Things You Didn't Know About Drones
When drones were created, how they're used, and what their future looks like.
BY MICAH ZENKO
The "war on terror" still casts a long shadow in some unlikely places.
BY PAUL SALOPEK
The FP Survey: The Future of War
Military experts tell us what the world's biggest security threats are -- and how to confront them in an age of austerity.
Don't fear the digital bogeyman. Virtual conflict is still more hype than reality.
BY THOMAS RID
Meet Patrick Ball, a statistician who's spent his life lifting the fog of war.
BY TINA ROSENBERG
What's on the horizon for warfare in 2012? FP asked some of the world's top experts to fill in the blanks.
How Gogol* Explains the Post-Soviet World
(*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.) The case for (re)reading Russia's greatest literary classics.
BY THOMAS DE WAAL
Opening Gambit: How to Beat Obama
BY ED GILLESPIE AND KARL ROVE
The Optimist: We're All the 1 Percent
BY CHARLES KENNY
The List: More Than BRICS in the Wall
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Anthropology of an Idea: The 'Peace Process'
BY URI FRIEDMAN
INTERVEW BY DAVID KENNER
The Things They Carried: The Israeli Settler
INTERVIEW BY OREN KESSLER
Dispatch: The Ritz-Carlton of Failed States
BY MICHAEL Z. WISE
BY DEAN CHAPMAN
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