Military history Articles

The Three Faces of NATO

Richard K. Betts | Apr 10, 2009
One must wonder why, with the end of the cold war, NATO did not dissolve. How do we explain the organization's transformation and vitality at the end of the twentieth century?

Xenophobia on the Continent

Andrew Kohut
Richard Wike
| Oct 30, 2008
Anti-Semitism is on the march in Europe. But the European’s new turn toward isolationism goes even further than that.

All the World's A Stage: America's Image in the Muslim World

Andrew Kohut
Richard Wike
| May 06, 2008
"Simply put, America’s image in much of the Muslim world remains abysmal." With the deepening and unrelenting challenges we face in the Middle East, how much has America’s image in the Muslim world declined?

Double or Nothing

Andrew A. Michta | Jan 02, 2008
All bets are off when it comes to the U.S. military.

Lessons from the Bloc

Robert D. English | Sep 04, 2007
What the collapse of the Soviet Union should have taught us about Iraq.

Is This Victory?

Tommy Franks
Stephen Biddle
Peter Charles Choharis
John M. Owen IV
Daniel Pipes
Gary Rosen
Dov S. Zakheim
| Nov 10, 2006
Defining what constitutes victory in Iraq is the number one question in American politics. Washington needs to go beyond offering bumper-sticker cliches to provide workable yardsticks for measuring success. Some thoughts on the matter.

Reaganism v. Neo-Reaganism

Richard Lowry | Mar 01, 2005
Reagan knew the difference between a conservative foreign policy and Wilsonian interventionism. Do his soi-disant heirs know it too?

American Maximalism

Stephen Sestanovich | Mar 01, 2005
President Bush's reputation as a radical is exaggerated.  He is following in the footsteps of bold predecessors.  So why is he making such a mess of it?

The Blogs of War

Glenn Harlan Reynolds | Mar 01, 2004
Governments used to do war and diplomacy, media used to report them. But in the Iraq War, freelance writers with laptops critiqued, corrected and cowed them both.

Selling America--Short

Jeffrey Gedmin
Craig Kennedy
| Dec 01, 2003
America's public diplomacy stinks. It's time to learn some lessons from the Cold War.

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