Eliot A. Cohen

Essays

The semantic contest to define the conflict that began, or rather became manifest, on September 11 started immediately: Would it be crime or war?

Bridging the gap between military officers and their civilian counterparts will be no easy task. Yet the stakes are too high to comtemplate failure.

The conundrums of Australian strategy are long-term concerns, and ones of which the Australians are quite aware. With regard to defense policy, as with other aspects of its national existence, Australia remains the lucky country, but one whose luc

Heather Wilson's article will, no doubt, win her few friends among her former colleagues in the Bush administration or among their successors.

Reviews

Quantifying the Great War doesn't really get one very far.

Saving Private Ryan challenges our moral seriousness, and that is a daunting thing for a summer film to have done.

H.R. McMaster has written a scathing indictment of America's civilian and military leadership during the early phases of the Vietnam war, and he speaks--to a military audience, at any rate--with unique moral authority.

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May 25, 2012