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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.

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? 6/24/2014	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 3/12/2014	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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