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Donald Rumsfeld

A Subversive on a Hill

Lawrence Freedman | May 07, 2009
With America mired in two wars and our economy in shambles, the chorus of declinists has returned. But the United States will endure because it is an elastic power.

A Thousand Envoys Bloom

David Rothkopf | Apr 27, 2009
Obama has assembled a crack national-security team, filled with sharp minds and even-sharper personalities. Our economic wise men too may be sharp, but with a groupthink typical of a team of neophytes.

Ambushed on the Potomac

Richard Perle | Jan 21, 2009
One of America’s best-known neoconservatives gives his take on what went wrong over the past eight years, the role of the State Department in hijacking Bush’s foreign policy and why 50 million conspiracy theorists have it wrong.

In Defense of Striped Pants

Morton Abramowitz
Leslie H. Gelb
| Mar 01, 2005
Governments get the bureaucracies the deserve.
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Commentary

Et Tu, Joe?

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | May 22, 2009
President Obama wants to “reset” our relations with Russia. But he could be sabotaged by skeptics in Congress—and Joe Biden.

Democrats, Flustered

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Jan 04, 2007
Without an ISG plan to rally around, instead of a unified Democratic position, we are likely to return to the status quo that existed in the previous Congress—individual Democrats offering their own competing plans and visions for action.

Losing Rummy

Ximena Ortiz | Nov 15, 2006
With Rumsfeld’s ouster, the Three of One Suit has been broken up, but Iraq will rage on.
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Books & Reviews

Woodward's Post-Electoral Prophecy

Leon Hadar | Oct 26, 2006
This article was originally published on October 26. Given Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's resignation, it is being republished.

A War, or Un-War?

Charles V. Peña
J. Peter Pham
| Oct 16, 2006
Experts Peña and Pham square off on Iraq.

Books: Some Unconventional Wisdom

J. Peter Pham | Sep 01, 2006
A review of The J Curve by Ian Bremmer and Winning the Un-War by Charles Peña.  Two authors turn their critical, discerning eye on the foibles of U.S. counter-terror and nation-building strategy. Just one offers a constructive course
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