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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.

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 3/12/2014	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 10/29/2013	NATO's Latest Reinvention 10/23/2013
The 1973 October War Shapes Israel 2013 10/15/2013	China's Toughest Economic Problem Is Political 10/8/2013	The National Security Threat of Big Debt 10/1/2013
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 9/3/2013	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 6/25/2013	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 6/4/2013	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 4/16/2013	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 3/19/2013
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	The Debt Monster Still Stalks Greece 6/21/2012	Special Operations Speak: Obama's Worst Nightmare 6/13/2012
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
Michener Letter About the Necessity of the A-bomb 7/24/2011	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 1/4/2011
China's Navy Gets Bigger, but Why? 12/28/2010	Season's Greetings From Al-Qaida 12/21/2010	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 10/12/2010
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
Will Corruption Kill the Euro? 6/22/2010	Haiti After the Quake: Opportunity for Renewal? 6/15/2010	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 2/23/2010
McChrystal's Afghan Offensive 2/16/2010	The Great Search Engine Collides With the Great Firewall 2/10/2010	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 1/5/2010	The Wages of Weakness 12/29/2009	Peace, Justice and the Lord's Resistance Army 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 11/11/2009
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 5/6/2009	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 3/17/2009	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 8/5/2008	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	Grisly Information 2/12/2008
Super Sunday: Did Europe Dodge a War? 2/7/2008	Halting Kenya's Chaotic Spiral 1/29/2008	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 10/16/2007	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?" 11/28/2006	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 9/6/2006	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 anarchismï¿½s 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 6/13/2006	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	Pray for the Best, Prepare for the Worst 5/4/2006
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	Austin Returns to Baghdad 6/21/2005
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	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	Congo Tragedy 7/16/2003
Liberian Chaos 7/9/2003	Democratization is a Messy Business 7/9/2003	Anatomy of an Ambush 6/25/2003
Bad Month for Diplomats 6/18/2003	"Let's say you survived the nerve gas..." 6/11/2003	Why the Dictators Hate the U.S. 6/4/2003
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.ï¿½A Completeï¿½After 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? 1/23/2001

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