Prominent columnist and noted author Austin Bay tackles the nation's issues and foreign affairs from his unique analytic and historically-incisive perspective in a weekly column syndicated by Creators Syndicate. His insightful columns have touched readers throughout Europe, Central America and the Middle East.
Bay's commentaries frequently appear on National Public Radio's Morning Edition program, and he has also appeared as a guest commentator on CNN, C-SPAN, and ABC News Nightline. In the early 1990s, he was a guest columnist with The Houston Chronicle, and has written a military issues and foreign affairs column for The San Antonio Express-News since 1994.
Strategist Putin Strikes An Ominous Deal With Iran
1/20/2015 | The Struggle to Reform Islam
1/13/2015 | Congo's Elites Undermining Peacekeeping Successes
1/6/2015 |
2015: Will China Continue to Probe its Neighbors?
12/30/2014 | North Korea's Combined Arms Attack on Sony
12/23/2014 | A Few Confirmation Questions for Obama's SecDef Nominee
12/16/2014 |
A 14th Cavalry Surgeon's Battle of the Bulge
12/9/2014 | Putin's Kemlin Losing the Oil Price War -- And That's Good
12/2/2014 | As The World Burns, Obama Fires Hagel
11/25/2014 |
To Defeat the Islamic State Obama Needs Clausewitz, Not Alinsky
11/21/2014 | Sherman's March to the Sea: Total Impact Warfare
11/21/2014 | Sherman's March to the Sea: Total Impact Warfare
11/19/2014 |
Mexico's Iguala Massacre: Criminal Gangs and Criminal Government
11/11/2014 | The Fall of the Berlin Wall
11/4/2014 | Tunisia: From Arab Spring to Carthaginian Summer?
10/29/2014 |
The Islamic State Decides to Fight for Khobane
10/22/2014 | The Wages of Smart Diplomacy
10/15/2014 | October 2014 Out of Control? Consider October 1944
10/7/2014 |
Conditions Stalk Obama's Uncertain Coalition
9/17/2014 | Obama's Re-WOT (Revived War on Terror)
9/9/2014 | Putin's Strategic Goal: The RUBK
9/3/2014 |
Vladimir Putin: The Return of the CommuNazi
8/28/2014 | The Allies Invade Southern France: Seaports and a Race up the Rhone
8/20/2014 | Islamic State's Murderous Excess Is The Road To Its Demise
8/14/2014 |
Sell French Warships to NATO, Not Russia
8/6/2014 | The July Crisis of 1914
7/29/2014 | Penalize Putin and His Culpable Kremlin
7/24/2014 |
Israeli Iron Dome Demonstrates Missile Defense Payoffs
7/15/2014 | An Independent Kurdistan: World War I Continues
7/10/2014 | Bombs Bursting in Air: America's Airpower Advantage, 1944-2014
7/1/2014 |
World War One's Next Phase?
6/25/2014 | The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's Media Foray
6/18/2014 | China-Vietnam Clash Could Spawn New Anti-China Alliance
6/10/2014 |
D-DAY: Rangers Lead to Way at Pointe du Hoc
6/5/2014 | Ukraine's Election and Counter-Offensive a One-Two Punch
5/28/2014 | Mamet's Novellas Probe War's Moral Scars and Sacrifice
5/20/2014 |
Post-Crimea Asian Territorial Disputes Intensify
5/13/2014 | Protecting US Security Personnel: Where the Benghazi and Plame Scandals Connect
5/6/2014 | Putin's Creeping War of Aggression Will Continue Unless the West Responds
4/29/2014 |
Japan's Prime Minister Battles Post-World War 2 Constitutional Military Restrictions
4/22/2014 | Russian Provocateurs Prepare The Ukrainian Battlefield
4/15/2014 | Czar-Commissar Putin's Creeping War Of Aggression
4/8/2014 |
South Korea Will No Longer Bleed and Bear It
4/1/2014 | Fracking Putin's Gas Advantage: War By Other Means in the 21st Century
3/26/2014 | Options for Confronting Putin's Three Cold Facts
3/18/2014 |
South by Southwest: Where Garage Attitude is a Strategic Economic Asset
3/13/2014 | In Crimea, Russian Military Maneuver Creates Strategic Facts On The Ground
3/5/2014 | In Crimea, Russian Military Maneuver Creates Strategic Facts On The Ground
3/5/2014 |
The Ukraine East-West Tug of War Isn't Over
2/26/2014 | As Venezuela's Gangster Government Blames America
2/19/2014 | January-February 1944: The Anzio Idea, The Rapido Reality
2/12/2014 |
Senate Cyber Security Report Is Damning
2/4/2014 | Microsoft Contra Malthus
1/28/2014 | De-classified Benghazi Testimony: The Video Didn't Do It
1/14/2014 |
Tunisia's Arab Spring Three Years On
1/7/2014 | South Sudan Needs Another Reconciliation Process
1/1/2014 | Secrecy on Life Support: Tapping Kate and William, Targeting Target and Naked Came the NSA
12/24/2013 |
Mandela as Example: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
12/17/2013 | The UN Turns to Peacekeeping With Fangs
12/10/2013 | Asia Pivot, With A Flinch
12/3/2013 |
Trust But Verify: Missing in 2013
11/26/2013 | Economic Revival Key to Avoiding Strategic Decline
11/19/2013 | China's Entrepreneurs: Visible Edge of a Global Revolt?
11/12/2013 |
The 1983 Euro-Missile Crisis: Last Great Battle of the Cold War?
11/5/2013 | America Needs Trustworthy Spies
10/30/2013 | NATO's Latest Reinvention
10/23/2013 |
The 1973 October War Shapes Israel 2013
10/15/2013 | China's Toughest Economic Problem Is Political
10/10/2013 | The National Security Threat of Big Debt
10/3/2013 |
The Nairobi Terror Attack: Icons and Images From the Terrorists' War On the Globe
9/24/2013 | Time to Tighten up on Security Clearances
9/17/2013 | Remembering Salerno, September 1943
9/10/2013 |
Obama's Smart Diplomacy: Keystone Kops, Emily Litella and Kabuki
9/4/2013 | Beyond Obama's Red Line: What Effect Punitive Strikes?
8/28/2013 | Rival Visions of Egyptian History Shape Egypt's Civil War
8/20/2013 |
Al-Qaida's Terror Chatter Exploits Obama's Credibility Gap
8/6/2013 | The Manning Conviction
7/31/2013 | Gen. Dempsey's Syrian Military Options "No Less Than an Act of War"
7/24/2013 |
A Tale of Two Spy Scandals
7/16/2013 | The Invasion of Sicily 1943: Victory as a Strategic Mistake?
7/10/2013 | Finessing Egypt's Second Spring 2013
7/2/2013 |
Back to the Future: Enrique Pena's Cartel War
6/26/2013 | The War Over Blood Ivory
6/18/2013 | No Denial on the Nile: Egypt Threatens Ethiopian Dams
6/11/2013 |
Protests Change Turkey's Political Landscape: A Report From Istanbul
6/5/2013 | Why the Dictators Hate the U.S.
6/5/2013 | Remembering the Aleutians "Forgotten Battle"
5/28/2013 |
System D: Floating Economic Boats Beneath the Surface
5/21/2013 | Benghazi Revisited: Pinocchios for the Dead
5/14/2013 | The Global Stakes in the Sino-Indian Frozen War
5/7/2013 |
Cybercrime Morphs Into Cyberwar
4/30/2013 | Congo Complexity Will Test U.N. Offensive Peacekeeping
4/23/2013 | 2013 Boston Terror's 19th-Century Roots
4/17/2013 |
Margaret Thatcher: The Complete Strategic Warrior
4/9/2013 | North Korea's Target List Is a Freudian Slip
4/2/2013 | When Chaos Spurs Reconciliation and Peace
3/26/2013 |
Ides of March Reversal: Obama Vindicates Reagan's SDI
3/20/2013 | The Grim Legacy Behind North Korea's Theater of Extortion
3/12/2013 | A Kenyan Revolution: Combating Corruption by Phone?
3/5/2013 |
The Seven Years War and Britain's Passage to India
2/26/2013 | Time to Confront Tehran's International Terrorism
2/20/2013 | Nuclear Endgame on the Korean Peninsula?
2/12/2013 |
Stalingrad: 1943 and 2013
2/5/2013 | Egypt's Revolution Will Take Decades
1/29/2013 | Al-Qaida Franchises Continue Terror War on the World
1/22/2013 |
Mali: Combat Buys Times for Diplomacy
1/16/2013 | Spinning With Mexico's New Gendarmes
1/9/2013 | Egypt's Government Must Confront the Genuine Great Satan
1/3/2013 |
"I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a Hamburger Today"
12/31/2012 | Tangled History Snarls China-Japan Island Dispute
12/18/2012 | North KoreaÂ’s Missile Test Raises Tensions in East Asia
12/12/2012 |
Felipe Calderon: Mexico's Great Reformer?
12/6/2012 | Catalonia's Separatist Catatonia
11/27/2012 | The Sino-Indian Border War: 1962-2012
11/20/2012 |
The Calendar, Body Count and Brinksmanship: The Syrian Death Match Accelerates
11/13/2012 | El Alamein and Operation Torch: The Road to Berlin Began in Africa
11/6/2012 | The Benghazi Terror Attack: Hard Facts and Fair Questions
10/31/2012 |
Barack and Mitt: The War for the U.S. Navy Has Just Begun
10/23/2012 | Panmunjom, Korea: Where Gangnam Style Meets Gulag Substance
10/16/2012 | Is the First Balkan War Really Over?
10/9/2012 |
China and Japan Talk War
9/25/2012 | Al-Qaida's YouTube-era Tet
9/18/2012 | Missile Defense Enters the 2012 Presidential Campaign
9/11/2012 |
Al-Qaida's East African Targets Shoot Back
9/4/2012 | South Korean Struggles With Fewer Troops; U.S. Military With Fewer Dollars
8/28/2012 | The Eurozone Crisis Continues
8/22/2012 |
Guadalcanal, Tulagi and Gavutu: American Perseverance in the Summer of '42
8/14/2012 | Syria's Explosive Crumbs
8/7/2012 | Kony 2012: The Hunt Continues
7/31/2012 |
Syria's Weapons of Mass Destruction, in Translation
7/24/2012 | Mahmoud Jibril's Libyan Miracles
7/17/2012 | War of 1812: Waging War With the Navy You Have
7/12/2012 |
Mexico: A New PRI or the Old PRI in Disguise?
7/4/2012 | Cry Wolf, Cry NATO?
6/27/2012 | Special Operations Speak: Obama's Worst Nightmare
6/21/2012 |
The Debt Monster Still Stalks Greece
6/21/2012 | Remembering Midway
6/6/2012 | Syria and Iran: Major Western Powers Are out to Lunch
5/30/2012 |
Greece: Mulligan Election, Mulligan Economy
5/22/2012 | Chicago Summit: Showcase for a 21st Century NATO?
5/15/2012 | China's Dilemma: Berlin Transition or Tiananmen Destruction?
5/9/2012 |
NAFTA's Evolving NATO?
5/1/2012 | Sudan Versus South Sudan: Mixing Volatile Oil, Water and Religion
4/24/2012 | Assad's Creeping War of Repression: Turkey Explores Intervention Options
4/17/2012 |
Syria's Civil War: React, He Said
4/11/2012 | The European Union Ups the Anti-Pirate Ante
4/3/2012 | Barack's Missile Message to Vladimir
3/27/2012 |
The Asian Pivot Towards China
3/20/2012 | The Taliban's Killing Fields: History 2014?
3/13/2012 | The #Falklands War: China Learns From Argentina's Mistakes
3/6/2012 |
Syria's Counter-Information War
2/29/2012 | Mexico's 2012 Election: A Drug Lord Reconquista?
2/21/2012 | Greek Fire, Euro-Roulette
2/14/2012 |
Syria: World War I Continues
2/7/2012 | China's Sudan Dilemmas
1/31/2012 | Bush Derangement Syndrome a Problem for Obama?
1/24/2012 |
Nixon's 1972 Trip to China: China's First Modernization?
1/17/2012 | Defense Manifesto 2012: Obama Channels Rumsfeld
1/10/2012 | Greek Tragedy: Political Effects of a Deep Global Depression
1/3/2012 |
North Korea: The Kim is Dead, Long Live the Kim
12/20/2011 | Holiday Greeting's From Iran: Grim, Cynical and Desperate
12/13/2011 | Pearl Harbor and 9-11: Imagination, Deception and Audacity
12/5/2011 |
Tunisia and Its Islamists: The Revolution, Phase Two
11/29/2011 | Failed States, Curtailed States: Terror Versus Crime
11/15/2011 | Iran: Armageddon One Day Closer
11/8/2011 |
Papandreou's Failed Gamble on Democracy
11/4/2011 | Greece's Papandreou Gambles on Democracy
11/1/2011 | From Arab Spring to Tunisian Fall -- Islamists Enter the School of Democracy
10/25/2011 |
Tracking Uganda's Lords Resistance Army: The Regional Context
10/18/2011 | Arab Spring and the Paradox of American Leadership
10/11/2011 | Ambushing Terror: Surprise, the Predator and the ACLU
10/4/2011 |
Sudanese Genocide Attention Fatigue?
9/27/2011 | Iran vs. NATO: The Twilight War in Syria
9/20/2011 | Egyptian Islamist Militants Following Khomeini's Script
9/13/2011 |
From 9/11 to 2011: Al-Qaida's Battle of Blame
9/6/2011 | Gadhafi Atrocities Justify Intervention
8/30/2011 | Libya 2011: Now Comes the War for Order
8/24/2011 |
Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography
8/16/2011 | America's Strategic Leadership Deficit
8/9/2011 | Turkey's Military Resigns
8/2/2011 |
Libyan War 2011: A Short History
7/27/2011 | Syria's Twilight of the Diversions
7/19/2011 | An American Military Nightlight in Iraq?
7/12/2011 |
Reinventing Libya
7/5/2011 | Corruption Feeds Crises Worldwide
6/29/2011 | Attrition as the Price of Vacillation
6/22/2011 |
Robert Gates' Blunt Reality
6/15/2011 | On the Road to Fatima Gate
6/7/2011 | Cyberwarfare -- the Doctrine of Equivalence
5/31/2011 |
The War Powers Resolution: Obama as Humpty Dumpty
5/24/2011 | Libya: Toothless Lawfare Amid Warfare
5/17/2011 | Leveraging Bin Laden's Legacy of Failure
5/10/2011 |
In Praise of American Persistence
5/3/2011 | Gadhafi's Five-Front War
4/27/2011 | Syria: Father-Son Dictatorship Remains in Vogue
4/19/2011 |
Into the Fourth Era of Space Exploration
4/12/2011 | Gadhafi Shifts Tactics: Pick-up Trucks and Human Shields
4/5/2011 | Barack Obama: American Exceptionalist
3/29/2011 |
Regime Change: Libya
3/23/2011 | Gadhafi's Cyrenaica Offensive: A Gift to Dictators
3/16/2011 | Calculated Covert Action Against Gadhafi
3/8/2011 |
Gadhafi's Cult Leaves Libya Bereft
3/2/2011 | Iran's Great Fright Fleet: Will Information Warfare Meet Davy Jones' Locker?
2/22/2011 | Pharaoh or Freedom: Is an Egyptian Democratic Front Emerging?
2/16/2011 |
The Pentagon Opts for Economy of Force
2/8/2011 | Islamist Mensheviks Versus Islamist Bolsheviks -- Egypt's Next Crisis?
2/1/2011 | Moscow's Silent War Explodes
1/25/2011 |
Tunisia's Remarkable Revolt
1/18/2011 | Twenty Years After: Desert Storm's Air War
1/11/2011 | As Sudan Divides
1/5/2011 |
China's Navy Gets Bigger, but Why?
12/28/2010 | Season's Greetings From Al-Qaida
12/22/2010 | The Change in East Asia
12/14/2010 |
WikiLeaks' Bottom-Line Revelation
12/7/2010 | FBI Wins a GWOT Battle in Portland
11/30/2010 | The Korean War Continues
11/23/2010 |
Brazil Seeks a Larger International Role
11/16/2010 | CIA Predator versus ACLU Subpoena: Warfare and Lawfare in the War on Terror
11/9/2010 | The Foreign Policy Clash Between Obama and the Next Congress
11/3/2010 |
America's Evolving Passage to India
10/26/2010 | Stopping the Next Stuxnet
10/20/2010 | Liu Xiaobo and the War for the Terms of Modernity
10/13/2010 |
Europe's Terror Alerts: Mumbai Meets Madrid
10/5/2010 | China's Turbulent Moment
9/29/2010 | Defeating Militant Islamist Ideology
9/21/2010 |
Turkey's Constitutional Referendum: The Beginning of the End?
9/14/2010 | Iraqi Change Vexes Obama
9/7/2010 | Sixty Years of War in Korea: "This Kind of War"
9/1/2010 |
August 1990 and the War for Modernity
8/24/2010 | China's Border Patrol
8/17/2010 | Pandoran Wars: Living with the Kosovo Precedent
8/10/2010 |
Iran: War Option on the Table
8/4/2010 | Three Windows Into Spydom's World of Mirrors
7/27/2010 | Chavez and His Caribbean War
7/20/2010 |
Terror Bombings in Uganda: A Prelude to Regional War?
7/13/2010 | An Afghan Anaconda
7/6/2010 | The Opportunity After McChrystal's Relief
6/29/2010 |
Haiti After the Quake: Opportunity for Renewal?
6/24/2010 | Will Corruption Kill the Euro?
6/22/2010 | One Year On: Iran's Green Movement Struggles as the Mullahs Make War
6/8/2010 |
Obama's Crises: From Hope to Cope
6/2/2010 | War With North Korea's Orwellian Kim
5/25/2010 | Iran Plays for Time
5/18/2010 |
Winning the Korean Face War
5/11/2010 | The Local War on Terror
5/5/2010 | The War in Chicago?
4/27/2010 |
The Land Beyond Chitchat and Oughtta Be
4/20/2010 | Has the Cyber-War Begun?
4/13/2010 | Nuclear Posturing
4/6/2010 |
Russia's Czar Wars Aren't Over
3/30/2010 | Cyber-Vulnerabilities: American Grid, Chinese Grip
3/23/2010 | Obama's Iran Conundrum
3/17/2010 |
Aftermath of the Iraqi Elections
3/9/2010 | The Struggle for Turkey's Soul
3/2/2010 | Obama Discovers Iran's Preconditions
2/24/2010 |
Austin Returns to Baghdad
2/17/2010 | McChrystal's Afghan Offensive
2/16/2010 | The Great Search Engine Collides With the Great Firewall
2/16/2010 |
Iran: Bombast, Revolt and Bombs
2/2/2010 | Aiding Haiti
1/26/2010 | Corruption: The Global Disease
1/20/2010 |
American Cyber-Security
1/12/2010 | Two Big Stories in 2010
1/6/2010 | The Wages of Weakness
12/29/2009 |
Peace, Justice and the Lord's Resistance Army
12/23/2009 | Pray for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
12/23/2009 | Predator War
12/15/2009 |
Cooling Hugo Chavez
12/8/2009 | Triangulating Afghanistan
12/1/2009 | On Cyber War
11/25/2009 |
Al-Qaida's Prospects
11/17/2009 | Hasan's Treason
11/12/2009 | Cracking the Berlin Wall
11/3/2009 |
Building an Army Under Fire
10/27/2009 | What Kind of Action in the World Justifies a Nobel Peace Prize?
10/13/2009 | Afghanistan's Changing Battleground
10/7/2009 |
Sudan's Simmering North-South War
9/29/2009 | Obama Lets Sphere of Influence Trump Sphere of Security
9/22/2009 | SOF Targets and Soft Targets
9/16/2009 |
Don't Damage the First Line of Defense
9/8/2009 | Two Septembers: 1939 and 2001
9/1/2009 | Seventy Years After the Hitler-Stalin Pact
8/26/2009 |
Mexico's Complex Free Trade Initiative
8/18/2009 | Strategic Twitter
8/11/2009 | Russo-Georgia One Year On: From Reset to Repeat?
8/4/2009 |
Remembering a Hungarian Freedom Fighter
7/29/2009 | Mumbai's Surprising Aftermath
7/21/2009 | China's Strategic Challenges Go Well Beyond the Uighurs
7/15/2009 |
Here Be Dragons: Patrolling Nowhere in the 21st Century
7/7/2009 | Iran in Limbo
7/1/2009 | Ballistic Missile Defense Dependence Day
6/23/2009 |
Identifying Domestic Terrorists
5/26/2009 | Cyber Warfare: The Gray Zone Narrows
5/19/2009 | Sri Lanka's Bitter Endgame
5/13/2009 |
Recalling May 1989
5/7/2009 | Epidemic of Fear
4/29/2009 | Grab the Planet by the Throat ...
4/22/2009 |
Legalistic Nonsense Thwarts Anti-Pirate and Anti-Terror Efforts
4/15/2009 | Secretary Gates' Defense Budget Proposals
4/7/2009 | Japan Rewrites North Korea's Script
3/31/2009 |
Flash Mobs, Tea Parties and Tocqueville
3/27/2009 | The North Korean Tangle
3/10/2009 | Obama Pulls Out, Polemically
3/3/2009 |
A Hotel in Babylon
2/24/2009 | Kosovo's Birthday Beyond the Balkans
2/17/2009 | Afghanistan's Wicked Problems
2/10/2009 |
Obama and Iraq's Emerging Victory
2/3/2009 | Obama Orbits: Satellites and Space Weapons
1/27/2009 | Machiavelli, Joint Forces Command and Mexico
1/20/2009 |
When the Human Shield Slips
1/14/2009 | The Next Future: Money in Both Doom and Boom
1/6/2009 | What Is Peace?
12/24/2008 |
Mexico's Cartel War: Year Three
12/17/2008 | Nexus and Eve of Destruction: Lessons in Change
12/9/2008 | Mumbai: The Terrorists' Gambit
12/3/2008 |
The Pirates of Puntland
11/26/2008 | Background to the Iraqi-U.S. Security Agreements
11/18/2008 | Obama's Great Expectations Encounter Sudan
11/12/2008 |
Eastern Congo's Graveyard of Good Intentions
11/4/2008 | The Counter-Terror Raid on Sukkariyah, Syria
10/29/2008 | The International Crisis Testing ObamaÂ’s Mettle
10/21/2008 |
The Next President's Iraq War
10/15/2008 | Into AFRICOM
10/8/2008 | Historians at War: The Decision to Disband
9/30/2008 |
The Media's Trillion-Dollar Question
9/16/2008 | Bin Laden's Slow Rot
9/9/2008 | Time to Go Nuclear
9/2/2008 |
Tsar Wars Versus Star Wars
8/26/2008 | Crime and Warfare: An Anatomy of Terror
8/19/2008 | The Russo-Georgia War's Dire Diplomatic Aftermath
8/13/2008 |
"Rheostat Warfare": An Interview With Gen. David Petraeus
8/6/2008 | Challenges of the Muslim World: Oil, Testosterone and War
7/30/2008 | Iraqi Victory, Defeat for McCain?
7/22/2008 |
Darfur's J'Accuse!
7/16/2008 | Obama's War Change: Hope for Iraq?
7/9/2008 | The Hard Thing of Democracy
7/2/2008 |
The State Department Confronts the Synergy Crisis
6/24/2008 | Mugabe the Obscene
6/17/2008 | Behind Gates' Decision to Fire Up the Air Force
6/10/2008 |
The Cluster Behind the Cluster Munitions Ban
6/3/2008 | Iraqi Democracy, Two Years On
5/28/2008 | Memorial Day 2008
5/21/2008 |
Limited Options in Burma
5/13/2008 | Michael Yon's "Moment of Truth in Iraq"
5/6/2008 | Darfur: Facing the Peacekeeping Conundrum
4/29/2008 |
Consequences: A Rapid US Military Withdrawal From Iraq
4/25/2008 | Back to Basra: Challenging the Blunderbusses
4/23/2008 | Food Crisis: The Maze Behind Maize
4/16/2008 |
Petreaus' Anaconda
4/8/2008 | Whittling Away at Sadr
4/2/2008 | War Stories and Cameras
3/26/2008 |
Al-Qaida's Fading Victory: The Madrid Precedent
3/12/2008 | Behind the Colombia - Ecuador - Venezuela Border Fracas
3/4/2008 | On Assassinating Freedom
2/27/2008 |
Fidel Castro's Painfully Long Finale
2/20/2008 | Super Sunday: Did Europe Dodge a War?
2/12/2008 | Grisly Information
2/12/2008 |
Halting Kenya's Chaotic Spiral
1/31/2008 | From Kosovo War to Cold War?
1/22/2008 | Mexico's Cartel War: Calderon in the Cauldron
1/16/2008 |
Speedboat Bluff in the Persian Gulf
1/9/2008 | War -- or Crime -- in Cyberspace
1/1/2008 | The Terrorists' Tet
12/25/2007 |
Goodwill and Armed Vigilance
12/19/2007 | TR's Big Stick: The Great White Fleet's Voyage
12/12/2007 | Potholes Swallowing Martyrs
12/5/2007 |
Al-Qaida's Emerging Defeat
11/27/2007 | Manned and Unmanned in the Air
11/21/2007 | On Signing a Bomb
11/14/2007 |
An India-U.S. Alliance?
11/7/2007 | A Diplomacy of Neighborhoods
10/31/2007 | The PKK's Dream
10/24/2007 |
Recognizing the Armenian Genocide
10/17/2007 | War and Peace With Cultural Anthropologists
10/3/2007 | A Revolution In Diplomatic Affairs
9/26/2007 |
Afghanistan Six Years on
9/18/2007 | The Petraeus-Crocker Testimony
9/12/2007 | Avoiding Surprise
9/5/2007 |
Gen. Petraeus' Pivotal Report
8/29/2007 | Preparing for the Hard Facts of Hurricanes
8/22/2007 | The United Nation Returns to Iraq
8/14/2007 |
Strategic Patience
8/8/2007 | The Latest Mexican War
8/1/2007 | The Interagency Illness
7/25/2007 |
Iraqi Withdrawal: Seven Scenarios
7/18/2007 | When Cheap Products Kill: Emerging Global Trade Regulations
7/10/2007 | Baghdad Clock, Washington Clock
7/3/2007 |
Palestine's Crooks And Kooks
6/26/2007 | From Russian Tantrum to Collective Missile Defense
6/20/2007 | Al-Qaida Fails Sexual Politics
6/13/2007 |
A Second Falklands?
6/6/2007 | Counter-Insurgency and "The Single Narrative"
5/30/2007 | From Surge to Sustain
5/22/2007 |
Ending Darfur's Genocide
5/16/2007 | How Many Ground Troops Does the United States Need?
5/9/2007 | Exploiting Al-Qaida's Weaknesses
5/2/2007 |
"Give 'em Hooey" Surrenders
4/24/2007 | An ABM for Europe?
4/18/2007 | A Quiet Step Forward for the Rule of Law
4/11/2007 |
An Armed Liberal Asks the Iraqi People About U.S. Withdrawal
4/3/2007 | Iran's Latest Hostage Gamble
3/28/2007 | Growing Condemnation for Mugabe's Regime
3/21/2007 |
Iraq's Accomplishments in Perspective
3/13/2007 | Maliki's Political and Economic Bullet
3/7/2007 | The Next Steps in Iraqi Economic Reform
2/27/2007 |
The Real News Behind "The Surge"
2/20/2007 | Time to Fix the Great American Failure
2/14/2007 | Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan
2/6/2007 |
The Battle of Najaf, 2007
1/30/2007 | The Quest for Kosovo's "Final Status"
1/23/2007 | "Unified Action" in the 21st Century's War for Modernity
1/16/2007 |
The Age of Proximity
1/9/2007 | "Look On My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!"
1/2/2007 | The Looming Tower: Egyptian Ideological Origins of Al-Qaida
12/26/2006 |
Operation Call Home
12/19/2006 | The Book List: Adding Depth to the Headlines
12/12/2006 | A Week of Leaks: Options for the Long War
12/5/2006 |
Iraq's War of Perception: "Who is Jamil Hussein?"
11/29/2006 | Reconciliation, from Vietnam to Iraq
11/22/2006 | James Baker and the Desert Storm Legacy
11/15/2006 |
Saddam's Conviction
11/8/2006 | A Return to the New York Times' Swift Disaster
11/1/2006 | A Strategic Lunch with Mr. Rumsfeld
10/25/2006 |
Steyn's "America Alone"
10/17/2006 | China's Moment of Choice
10/11/2006 | Al-Qaida's Narrative of Doubt
10/4/2006 |
From Rwanda To Darfur
9/26/2006 | The CBS Ambush
9/20/2006 | Why Censor Disney?
9/13/2006 |
Five Years On
9/7/2006 | The Aftermath: Hezbollah's Looming Loss
8/30/2006 | Ballistic Missile Defense in an Era of Terrorism
8/23/2006 |
Debunking Tarted Up Horror Tales
8/16/2006 | The Guns of August, the Missiles, Rockets and IEDs of July
8/9/2006 | Lose Face, Face Sanctions: China's Lesson to North Korea
8/2/2006 |
Will Islamo-fascism follow anarchism�s path?
7/26/2006 | Halting Rocket Fire From Hijacked States
7/19/2006 | The Mumbai Terrorist Attack
7/12/2006 |
The North Korean Missiles Behind The Elvis Summit
7/5/2006 | The Axis of Abuse
6/28/2006 | Somalia's Chaotic Battlefield
6/20/2006 |
Bush's Suprise Visit to Baghdad
6/14/2006 | Zarqawi's Death: An Important Opportunity for New Iraq
6/8/2006 | From Cold War Containment to "A Forward Strategy for Freedom"
6/7/2006 |
Europe's Specter: A Ghost of Its Former Self?
5/31/2006 | ANN: The Astonishing News Network
5/24/2006 | Solving the Border's "Baby Predicament"
5/17/2006 |
When Iran's Genocidal Mullahs Think the Unthinkable
5/9/2006 | George Clooney's Darfur Dilemmas
5/3/2006 | Bin Laden's Latest Rant: The Darfur Genocide as Holy War
4/26/2006 |
"The Euston Manifesto": Principled Left Considers War On Terror
4/19/2006 | The Quiet War Against Muqtada Sadr
4/12/2006 | The "Difficult Dimensions" of Immigration and Border Security
4/5/2006 |
Remembering Saddam's Slow War
3/29/2006 | Holding the Dictators Accountable
3/15/2006 | News of the Nation-State's Demise May Be Very Premature
3/7/2006 |
The U.N. Human Rights Council: What's in a Name Change?
3/1/2006 | Declassified Al-Qaida Documents: Jihad, with Medical Benefits
2/22/2006 | Haiti: Clinton's Photo-Op War a Lesson for the War on Terror
2/14/2006 |
Rushdie, Danish Cartoons and Free Expression
2/7/2006 | Palestine's Hamas Government: Old Radicalism or New Pragmatism?
2/1/2006 | "Canadian Military" an Oxymoron?
1/26/2006 |
From "The Beirut Spring" to Toppling Assad
1/18/2006 | Kennedy and Robertson: Burned by Hot Buttons
1/10/2006 | The Mullah's Quest, The Mullah's Fear
1/3/2006 |
The Big Story of 2005 (Someone Tell The New York Times)
12/29/2005 | A Sunday in Iraq
12/23/2005 | Tne Great Revolt Continues
12/14/2005 |
To Fix Intelligence, Hire Artists and Fire Bureaucrats
12/7/2005 | "Let's Kill All the Lawyers"
11/29/2005 | Sharon's Historic Gamble
11/23/2005 |
21st Century Piracy: Long John Isn't Long gone
11/15/2005 | Will Chirac Fiddle While Paris Burns?
11/9/2005 | The Dirty Work of the Beltway Clerks
11/1/2005 |
Democratic Revolutions Slow, Painfully Incremental Miracles
10/26/2005 | Wealth and Democracy in Iraq
10/19/2005 | Zaraqawi's Losing Strategy
10/12/2005 |
The Fear Market is Down
10/5/2005 | Military and Natural Disasters
9/28/2005 | The Friction of War
9/21/2005 |
Light Water Shell Game
9/21/2005 | Return to What?
9/8/2005 | Continuing the Democratic Surge
8/31/2005 |
Waging Peace
8/24/2005 | Is Iraq Ready for Democracy?
8/17/2005 | 'Soldiering' -- Korea, Vietnam and Safe Places
8/11/2005 |
'Thank God for the Atomic Bomb'
8/3/2005 | The Jihadists' War on Tourism
7/27/2005 | The Palestinian Civil War Has Left the Alleys Moved to the Streets
7/20/2005 |
Al Qaeda's Information War
7/13/2005 | Securing Terror Target No. 1
7/6/2005 | Why the Long War Must Be Won
6/29/2005 |
Modern Slavery
6/8/2005 | Chirac, Political Dead Man Talking
6/2/2005 | The DIME Ballet
5/25/2005 |
Newsweek Meets 21st Century War
5/18/2005 | Armor Amour -- Suddenly The Beltway Loves Tanks
5/14/2005 | A Look Back at V-E Day
5/4/2005 |
The Next Failed State
4/27/2005 | Bolton the UN Reformer
4/20/2005 | The "Iraqi Tet" Fantasy
4/13/2005 |
Mugabe, Thug on the Loose
4/5/2005 | Can the UN be Saved?
3/30/2005 | A War We Are Winning
3/23/2005 |
Lebanon a Battle of Crowds and Cameras for Now
3/16/2005 | Danger on Route Irish
3/9/2005 | The Angry Arab Meets the Texas Cowboy
3/2/2005 |
The Second VE Day
2/23/2005 | The Ground Truth About Ground Zero
2/16/2005 | Bush's Vietnam - NOT!
2/9/2005 |
A Bridge Between the Future and the Past
2/2/2005 | Technology, Democracy and Terror
1/26/2005 | Saddam's Henchmen Cast Their Votes
1/19/2005 |
The Challenge of the South Asia Tsunami
1/12/2005 | Where Were the Cameras?
1/5/2005 | 2004's Most Important Issue
12/29/2004 |
"Wait"
12/23/2004 | The Coming Arab Revolt
12/15/2004 | The World is Al Qaeda's Battlefield
12/8/2004 |
Ukraine and the Russian Wish to Return to Super-Power Status
12/1/2004 | Peaceful Guidance in a World of War
11/24/2004 | Arafat's True Legacy
11/17/2004 |
Ending the Reactionaries' Reign of Terror
11/10/2004 | The Trials and Tribulations of Zarqawi
11/8/2004 | Continuing the War On Terror
11/3/2004 |
October's Most Important Election
10/27/2004 | Flu and Smallpox the Ignored WMD
10/13/2004 | The New Greatest Generation
10/6/2004 |
Bullets, Money, Ballots
10/6/2004 | Touted National Intelligence Estimate Out of Date
9/22/2004 | Money Is Ammo in Iraq
9/15/2004 |
Back Home, Safe, and Enlightened
9/8/2004 | The Threat of Chemical Attacks From Sea
8/25/2004 | "Surprise, Security and the American Experience"
8/4/2004 |
The Danger of Agro-terror
7/14/2004 | Deception and Warfare
7/1/2004 | Bob Kerrey: On Iraq and Democracy
6/18/2004 |
The Awkward Killer
6/2/2004 | UNSCAM
5/26/2004 | Everyone Is Part of the War
5/19/2004 |
Lighting the Entrepreneurial Fire in the Third World
5/12/2004 | Triggering War on the Sub-Continent
5/12/2004 | Success is Up to the People of Iraq
5/12/2004 |
The Silver-Lining of Abu Ghraib
5/5/2004 | Cyprus In or Out or Both?
4/28/2004 | The Myth of Oil for Food
4/21/2004 |
Saddam's Trial, the Antidote for the Poison in Iraq
4/14/2004 | Fallujah Islamo-fascists Meet The Marines
4/8/2004 | How Much Political Will?
4/1/2004 |
The Big Picture Behind the Assassination of Yassin
3/24/2004 | Al Qaeda, Sewer Rats, and the "Reconquista"
3/17/2004 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Liar, or Victim of the Bush Administration?
3/10/2004 |
The Threats to Democracy in Iraq
3/3/2004 | Viral Terror
2/25/2004 | "Ground Truth"
2/18/2004 |
Sunni vs. Shia: The Rich Boys' Plan
2/11/2004 | Everyone's A Critic
2/5/2004 | "Meanwhile, back in North Korea..."
1/23/2004 |
House of Saud Fighting for Survival
1/14/2004 | Mad How Disease: An American Strategic Weakness
1/8/2004 | Hot and Hotter: Security Challenges in 2004
12/30/2003 |
Give the U.S. GIs the Nobel Peace Prize
12/28/2003 | Cascading Effects of Saddam's Capture
12/18/2003 | The Ace of Spades in the Baathist Ratpack Behind Bars
12/14/2003 |
What is the Score in Iraq?
12/11/2003 | Reporting on the Real Iraq
12/3/2003 | European Fat Cats Lack Will and Courage
11/26/2003 |
Twaddle from the Axis of Neville
11/19/2003 | Hooey, Hogwash and Malarkey from the Critics of the Iraq War
11/12/2003 | Burundi Bleeds While the First World Ignores the Bleeding
11/5/2003 |
The War for Brainpower
10/30/2003 | Getting It Done Under The Gaze Of Peter Jennings
10/22/2003 | Getting It Done Under The Gaze Of Peter Jennings
10/22/2003 |
"Walk Back the Cat" -- Third in a series on intel assessments and Iraq
10/15/2003 | "Walk back the cat" Part II
10/8/2003 | "Walk back the cat"
10/1/2003 |
A Victory For the Civilized
9/24/2003 | Conservative Lead Liberation of Iraq Unacceptable for Liberals
9/17/2003 | Perseverance Will Defeat Terrorism
9/10/2003 |
America's Trump Card
9/7/2003 | A War We Are Winning
8/27/2003 | Why Didn't Amin Rot and Die in Jail?
8/22/2003 |
Will We a Have Deterrent for a Future Nuclear Attack?
8/14/2003 | Michener Letter About the Necessity of the A-bomb
8/13/2003 | Michener Letter About the Necessity of the A-bomb
8/13/2003 |
Jemaah Islamiya (AKA Al Qaeda) Alive and Kicking in Southeast Asia
8/6/2003 | An Intelligence Failure with Catastrophic Consequences
7/30/2003 | Iraq Isn't Vietnam
7/23/2003 |
Anatomy of an Ambush
7/19/2003 | Bad Month for Diplomats
7/19/2003 | "Let's say you survived the nerve gas..."
7/19/2003 |
Congo Tragedy
7/16/2003 | Liberian Chaos
7/9/2003 | Democratization is a Messy Business
7/9/2003 |
The Need for Missile Defense
5/29/2003 | Remember Afghanistan?
5/21/2003 | Mr. Kim's Neighborhood
5/14/2003 |
Does Accounting For Saddam's WMD Matter?
5/7/2003 | Bug Kicks Tiger
4/30/2003 | Garner's Media Woes: When Will They Learn
4/23/2003 |
What Does the Quick Victory Bring?
4/16/2003 | Urban Judo
4/9/2003 | After the Bullets Comes the Re-Building
4/9/2003 |
Just Give CENTCOM a Chance
4/5/2003 | What's going on inside Iraq's high command?
4/2/2003 | How long will the war last? Who knows, but here's a guess.
3/28/2003 |
Military Synergism Meets Baghdad
3/26/2003 | Rolling to Baghdad
3/26/2003 | Squeezing Baghdad
3/26/2003 |
Twelve Years, Seven Months and No More Counting
3/19/2003 | Saddam's Victims
3/13/2003 | Iraq March 2003, What Happens Next?
3/5/2003 |
The Mother of All Debates?
2/26/2003 | Will the U.N. Become the League of Nations?
2/22/2003 | The Formula for Hell in the 21st Century
2/19/2003 |
To Explore, or Not To Explore, That Is The Question.
2/5/2003 | Know Your Enemy
1/29/2003 | Iraq: The Fighting Never Stopped
1/22/2003 |
United Nation's Credibility: Torn, Ripped, and Shredded
1/15/2003 | What the US Needs is a Liberal Hawk
1/8/2003 | Can the U.S. Handle both Korea and Iraq?
1/2/2003 |
The Christmas Rush
12/27/2002 | Little Wars Cripple Small Countries in Big Ways
12/19/2002 | McDonalds: the Best Weapon Against Terrorism
12/11/2002 |
Peace and Security Breed Prosperity: A Lesson from Uganda
12/4/2002 | The BBC Weapon of Mass Instruction
11/20/2002 | U.S. Good Cops - Bad Cops
11/13/2002 |
Al Qaeda Fighting American Robots
11/13/2002 | Zimbabwe the Next Genocidal Killing Field
10/30/2002 | North Korea's Nuclear Revelations
10/23/2002 |
Baghdad the Day After: Revisited
10/16/2002 | Is a Coup Possible in Iraq?
10/9/2002 | McDermott and Bonior the Neville Chamberlains of Our Time
10/9/2002 |
An Islamic Reformation
9/19/2002 | Osama bin Laden's Unintended Legacy
9/12/2002 | 9/11: Images We Cannot and Should not Forget
9/11/2002 |
America's Vacation is Over
9/4/2002 | Iraq - No Discipline, No Loyalty, No Win
8/29/2002 | Mud, the Crusader and Inter-Service Distrust
8/22/2002 |
Homeland Security: Security versus Liberty
8/15/2002 | Homeland Security: Offense as Homeland Defense
8/8/2002 | Homeland Security: Disseminating the Information, No Easy Task
8/3/2002 |
Homeland Security: Defending Infrastructure
7/25/2002 | Homeland Security: Role of the Individual American Citizen
7/20/2002 | The Eagle's and the Bear's Relationship Redefined
7/11/2002 |
Remembering the Atlantic Charter
7/3/2002 | A Full Report on Operation Anaconda -- America's First Battle of the 21st Century.�A Complete�After Action Interview with COL Weircinski
6/29/2002 | Q & A With An Anaconda Vet
6/27/2002 |
World Cup Soccer a Reflection of Global Affairs
6/24/2002 | What Do Mating Dinosaurs and Merging Government Agencies Have In Common?
6/13/2002 | Bingo Games and Toasted Muffins
5/30/2002 |
Investigating 9-11
5/23/2002 | Enemies Beware, "Transformation" of Democracy's Arsenal
5/16/2002 | What Can Solve the Palestinian Problem? Money!
5/9/2002 |
Invasion Iraq
5/1/2002 | The Curious State of Iran
4/24/2002 | Baghad, the Morning After
4/18/2002 |
Babies, Shekels and Bullets
4/10/2002 | Iraqi Blood Money
4/4/2002 | "Thinking Red"
3/27/2002 |
"Micro-development" Offers New Hope in Third World Countries
3/27/2002 | Anti-Americans Struggle to Find Their Voice After 9-11
3/13/2002 | A Long and Difficult War
3/7/2002 |
Daniel Pearl's Murder Reinforces West's Sense of Purpose.
2/28/2002 | Africa's "Slobo"
2/20/2002 | "French Hiss"
2/14/2002 |
List of Horrors
2/7/2002 | The Legal Limbo at Guantanamo
1/30/2002 | The Philippines Is No Afghanistan
1/23/2002 |
What Is Still Keeping Donald Rumsfeld Up Late At Night? - It Isn't Letterman.
1/17/2002 | Somalia: Planet's Foremost "Failed State"
1/17/2002 | Indian and Pakistani Hostilities Rekindled
12/29/2001 |
Arafat's Uncertain Future
12/21/2001 | On to Baghdad or Somalia or Yemen or ...
12/13/2001 | So what comes after the caves?
12/7/2001 |
The Millennial War Is Clearly a Fight for the Future
11/29/2001 | Bolton's List of The Evil, The Bad and The Ugly
11/22/2001 | The Diplomacy of Battlefield Victory
11/15/2001 |
The "Chit-Chat" Class Loses Patience with the War
11/7/2001 | Humanitarian Aid Critical to Success of US's War on Terrorism
10/31/2001 | Homeland Defense From the Frontlines
10/24/2001 |
High Noon in Afghanistan: The SOF and Osama Shoot It Out
10/18/2001 | "HA and HE"
10/11/2001 | Why Afghanistan Will Topple Itself
10/3/2001 |
Target. Besiege. Strike.
9/26/2001 | War On Terrorism Will Take Guts
9/19/2001 | The World Trade Center Attack 21st Century Pearl Harbor
9/11/2001 |
World Festival of Hate Rhetoric and Inflammatory Theatrics
9/5/2001 | Operation Essential Harvest, NATO Brings Gun Control to the Balkans
8/29/2001 | The Tangled Web of Terrorism
8/22/2001 |
Lost Boy Tommy Must Bid Bye-Bye to Slick Willie Pan's Never Never Land
8/15/2001 | An End to the Korean War, Wishful Thinking?
8/9/2001 | August the Month of Saddam Hussein
8/2/2001 |
"Cool Hand" Putin
7/25/2001 | The End of the Two War Strategy
7/19/2001 | HEY! Get that marine out of my backyard!
7/11/2001 |
Milosevic Did The Crime, But Will He Do The Time?
7/4/2001 | Shinseki's Berets Endanger Medium Brigade
6/29/2001 | NATO Expansion, Anchorage for Emerging Democracies
6/20/2001 |
"Royal Air Force may recruit Luftwaffe pilots." It isn't a Joke but European Leadership is.
6/13/2001 | Ground Pounders vs. Smart Bombs: Lessons from Macedonia
6/6/2001 | Hope for the Political Football (Better Known as sub-Saharan Africa) of the Left and Right
5/30/2001 |
Are Californians Stupid?
5/24/2001 | The International Fallout of Foot and Mouth Disease
5/16/2001 | Playing the Bad Guy is Fun and Infomative!
5/9/2001 |
ABM Treaty Bites the Dust
5/2/2001 | China's Imitation Media
4/25/2001 | Rogue Voyage of a 21st Century African Slave Ship
4/20/2001 |
China's Boistrous Borders
4/20/2001 | The USA is China's Devil du Jour
4/20/2001 | It's a Cold Snap, No Cold War
4/20/2001 |
What's Keeping Donald Rumsfeld Up Late At Night?
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