Over the centuries, the causes and justifications for war have evolved. But we remain caught in a Westphalian mindset, even though the nature of today’s substate threats demands an altogether-different mentality and a new breed of soldier—or at le
Without quick mediation, the politicization of religion could lead to conflict.
American religiosity and European secularity spring from the same source.
Congress has made a start. But the priority of the new Director of National Intelligence must be better HUMINT.
If you want to improve America's intelligence, don't read the 9/11 report. Read Buchan's Greenmantle or Kipling's Kim. We need agents of daring and skill, not better bureaucrats.
If gardeners and housemaids can cross our porous borders, so can Al-Qaeda operatives.
Owen Harries announces his retirement as The National Interest's editor.
An ambition, inordinate and immense, one of those ambitions whichcould only possibly spring in the bosoms of the oppressed, and couldonly find nourishment in the miseries of a whole nation, ferments inthe heart of the Russian people.
The intelligence community did not fail to predict the Soviet collapse.
As fate has it, Russia is given to the power of extremes,.