War Articles

How to Reverse Failed Policy

Ray Takeyh | May 01, 2013
U.S. policy makers have all too often clung to orthodoxies even as they fail. Yet a select few have managed to turn the ship of state around, to a better course.

Lessons of the Syrian Reactor

Bruce Riedel | May 01, 2013
The intelligence failures of Iraq seriously constrained policy makers in other areas.

When Kerry Stormed D.C.

Marvin Kalb | Mar 01, 2013
John Kerry was just five years out of Yale when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and became an instant celebrity.

Syria's Crisis of Transition

Chester Crocker | Mar 01, 2013
History shows that an internationally led negotiation is the best way out of the civil war, but the situation isn't yet ripe for action.

A Sadly Simplistic Afghan Debate

Robert W. Merry | Mar 01, 2013
Nixon's handling of Vietnam and China could offer insights for Obama in Afghanistan.

Congressional Abdication

Jim Webb | Mar 01, 2013
Congress has been abandoning its traditional role in foreign policy to the executive branch.

Leading Blindly across a Minefield

Dimitri K. Simes
Paul J. Saunders
| Jan 02, 2013
The international system is at a transformative moment. Yet President Obama has failed to set a direction for America.

JFK's Overshadowed Crisis

Bruce Riedel | Jun 28, 2012
In October 1962, Kennedy confronted both the Cuban missile crisis and a war between China and India. Though Cuba got more attention then and now, that Asian crisis still holds valuable diplomatic lessons.

The Salafi Awakening

Daniel Byman
Zack Gold
| Jun 28, 2012
In the wake of Egypt’s revolution and subsequent elections, Westerners have focused on the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Egyptian Salafis, more fundamentalist than the Brotherhood, bear watching as well.

Israel's New Politics and the Fate of Palestine

Akiva Eldar | Jun 28, 2012
Geography and demography now trump democracy in Israel. The country pays lip service to the two-state solution while steadily appropriating the land it wants in the occupied territories.

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