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Reason
January 2003
Mueller & Lindsey |
Should We Invade Iraq? A debate   |
Reason
June 2006 |
Three Views on Iraq, Three Years Later In May 2003 George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq. A trio of analysts debates the current state of the region: Why I Supported the Iraq War... You Can't Bring Order to the Middle East... Six Facts About Iraq... |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Chris Zambelis |
The Strategic Implications of Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Middle East Promoting democracy in the Middle East will mark a positive shift in American foreign policy if and when Washington decides to back up its rhetoric with action. |
Parameters
Summer 2007
Gawdat Bahgat |
Iran and the United States: The Emerging Security Paradigm in the Middle East It is time that those responsible for crafting the policies and strategies for the region understand that US and Iranian interests are not by definition mutually exclusive. |
Reason
August 2003
Bailey et al. |
Forcing Freedom Can liberalism be spread at gunpoint? |
Salon.com
September 6, 2002
Asla Aydintasbas |
The Kurdish dilemma Barham Salih, prime minister of Northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, talks about the recent attempt on his life, why he wants a regime change in Baghdad and what should happen in the days after Saddam is deposed. |
Parameters
November 2004
Franklin Eric Wester |
Preemption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq This article demonstrates that the use of military force by the Bush Administration against the regime of Saddam Hussein does not meet the ethical criteria for "preemptive war" set forth in the classical Just War tradition. |
Parameters
Summer 2005
R. D. Hooker |
Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man. |
Salon.com
December 20, 2001
Asla Aydintasbas |
The midnight ride of James Woolsey The former CIA director presents himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age, trying to waken America to its greatest threat -- Saddam Hussein. Should we be listening? |
Parameters
Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
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Autumn 2008
Michael Lind |
A Concert-Balance Strategy for a Multipolar World The United States is a superpower in search of a strategy. The neoconservative vision of unilateral US global hegemony lacks public support, but its critics have failed to propose a credible alternative capable of guiding US national security. |
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006
Jeffrey Record |
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? |
Parameters
Summer 2007
Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
Salon.com
May 16, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
A little bit at war Wall Street Journal's Max Boot says that, contrary to the Powell doctrine, America can and should fight small wars, build nations and do without an exit strategy... |
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Summer 2008
Jeffrey Record |
Retiring Hitler and "Appeasement" from the National Security Debate History has proven that negotiating with terrorists and radicals won't work. |
Parameters
Spring 2007 |
Book Reviews The new book, Fiasco, wastes no time in cutting a wide swath through Washington and Baghdad in this critique on the war in Iraq... State of Denial is the third book by Bob Woodward on the war in Iraq... etc. |
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Summer 2005 |
Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc. |
Reason
February 2004
Steve Chapman |
Bush's Bad Foreign Policy Unilateralism and remaking the world don't mix. |
Salon.com
February 3, 2001
Laura Rozen |
Dictator downturn It just isn't as easy being a tyrant as it used to be... |
Salon.com
March 20, 2002
Hadani Ditmars |
Denis Halliday The former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq says an American invasion would be an international crime -- and would make the U.S. even less safe... |
Salon.com
October 11, 2002
William M. Arkin |
Sept. 11 and wars of the world Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them. |
Parameters
Autum 2008 |
Book Reviews Looking for Trouble by Ralph Peters tales of his odyssey through a decaying Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... Elizabeth Samet writes about teaching English at a military institution in her latest book Soldier's Heart... etc. |
Reason
July 2006
Logan & Preble |
Are Failed States a Threat to America? The Bush administration's nation-building efforts are a big mistake. |
Parameters
Autumn 2007
Christopher Hemmer |
Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail? |
Salon.com
January 3, 2002
David Talbot |
The making of a hawk From Kuwait to Kosovo to Kabul, American firepower has been on the right side of history. The odyssey of a former dove... |
Parameters
Autumn 2004
Richard L. Russell |
Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf. |
Parameters
Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
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Winter 2006/2007 |
Book Reviews From Omaha Beach to Dawson's Ridge: The Combat Journal of Captain Joe Dawson. By Cole C. Kingseed... The Making of a Terrorist: Recruitment, Training and Root Causes. Edited by James J. F. Forest... etc. |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004
Bruce Nussbaum |
Fighting A New Cold War The U.S. and Europe must commit to a global offensive to defeat terrorism akin to the decades-long battle against communism |
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006
Bradley L. Bowman |
Realism and Idealism: US Policy toward Saudi Arabia, from the Cold War to Today Before analyzing US policy toward Saudi Arabia during the Cold War and developing a strategy for the future, it is important to gain a better understanding of realist interests and idealist values. |
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Summer 2004
Ralph Peters |
In Praise of Attrition There is no shame in calling reality by its proper name. We are fighting, and will fight, wars of attrition. |
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Summer 2006 |
Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... etc. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
The armchair general He's been beating the drums of war for a decade. Can Beltway hawk Richard Perle finally persuade the U.S. to wage war with Iraq? |
Parameters
Spring 2005
Metz & Millen |
Intervention, Stabilization, and Transformation Operations: The Role of Landpower in the New Strategic Environment A historic shift has taken place in the strategic environment as globalization and interconnectedness propel the concept of security in new, unforeseen directions |
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006 |
Book Reviews The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich... 1776 by David McCullough... West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond edited by Lance Betros... What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman... etc. |
Reason
November 2008
Jim Henley |
Between Iraq and a Soft Place In Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats, by Matthew Yglesias, discusses the role Iraq played in Obama's success. |
Parameters
Autumn 2007 |
Book Reviews Kimberly Kagan in The Eye of Command proposes that John Keegan's Face of Battle approach to narrating battles suffers fatal flaws... War Made New by Max Boot examines 500 years of military innovation... etc. |
Parameters
Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
Salon.com
June 18, 2002
Laura Miller |
Before Baghdad burns The author of a new book on Iraq cautions that a U.S. invasion to get rid of Saddam Hussein could be even more dangerous than his weapons of mass destruction. |
Parameters
Winter 2003/2004
James K. Wither |
British Bulldog or Bush's Poodle? Anglo-American Relations and the Iraq War There are many factors beside Blair's leadership that helped to shape the British government's role in Iraq. This article addresses these issues and places them in historical context. |
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Autumn 2006 |
Book Reviews The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. By George Packer... On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom... Rein In at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations. By Alan D. Romberg... etc. |
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Autumn 2006
Michael R. Melillo |
Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing. |
Reason
October 2002
Ted Carpenter |
Fixing Foreign Policy How the U.S. should wage the war on terror |
Parameters
Summer 2008 |
Book Reviews A. J. Langguth's book Union 1812: Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence makes history read like a novel... Muhammad: Islam's First Great General by Richard A. Gabriel focuses on the political aspects of the religious leader... etc. |
Parameters
Autumn 2007
Christopher M. Schnaubelt |
Whither the RMA? The present Department of Defense (DOD) focus on technological solutions to increase capabilities may be misguided by a vision of a high-tech Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). |
Salon.com
September 24, 2002
Anthony York |
Bush doctrine makes waves overseas International reaction to new policy of preemptive strikes casts a suspicious eye on "imperialist" designs. |
Parameters
Autumn 2004 |
Book Reviews In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. By Rick Atkinson... America's Inadvertent Empire. By William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric... The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. By James Mann... The Iraq War. By John Keegan... etc. |
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Autumn 2006
Raymond L. Bingham |
Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy. |
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Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
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Summer 2005
Harry S. Laver |
Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment. |
