By Dov S. Zakheim

National security remains on the president’s radar screen. But it is not nearly as important as other issues.

The administration has been too reluctant to take concrete steps in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Several TNI regulars assess the campaign's last debate.

America is a mere bystander as the legacy of its attempt to export “democracy” to this bitterly divided, battle-scarred nation slowly disintegrates.

China, Turkey, Russia, India, Brazil—the great powers of old are staging a comeback.

U.S. withdrawal could bring a new Afghan civil war—or worse, the division of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Sectarian violence. Government death squads. Closer ties with Iran. Iraq should be a lesson to those who wish to transform the Mideast.