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Autumn 2005
Thomas E. Ayres |
"Six Floors" of Detainee Operations in the Post-9/11 World In the aftermath of 9/11, some have called for a ruthless, `gloves-off' response that would sweep aside legal and political obstacles. Yet the American public's response to the Abu Ghraib abuses provides strong evidence that such an approach is still inconsistent with America's values.   |
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Summer 2005
Michael H. Hoffman |
Rescuing the Law of War: A Way Forward in an Era of Global Terrorism Terrorists are gaining an astonishing legal edge over US and other armed forces deployed against them. Judicial intervention in the law of war since September 11, 2001 already far exceeds anything ever before experienced, by any nation, in the history of warfare. |
Reason
January 2005
Harvey Silverglate |
Civil Liberties and Enemy Combatants Why the Supreme Court's widely praised rulings are bad for America. |
Reason
April 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Guantanamo State of Mind President Obama should reject the arrogance that made the infamous prison possible. |
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Autumn 2005 |
Commentary & Reply Detainee Operations and the Law of War... On The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology... The Trouble with History and the Schlieffen Plan... etc. |
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Autumn 2008
Daniel S. Roper |
Global Counterinsurgency: Strategic Clarity for the Long War Though policy initiatives since September 11, 2001 have positively influenced certain agencies in their efforts to secure America, some steps have actually limited the nation's effectiveness in countering the threats it faces. |
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Summer 2007
Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
Reason
May 2009
Radley Balko |
Follow-Up Guantanamo Bay will most likely be shut down before all the legal issues concerning habeas corpus, due process, and the separation of powers are fully resolved. |
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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. |
Reason
May 2009
Jacob Sullum |
The Indefinite Future of Indefinite Detention President Obama may close Guantanamo, but the policy it represents will continue. |
Reason
October 2002
Jacob Sullum |
The Forever War: How long can an emergency last? The war on terrorism now looks less like World War II, and more like the war on drugs: an intermittently violent campaign against an amorphous enemy that can never be decisively vanquished. That fact has important implications for the debate about how much liberty we should give up. |
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Summer 2006
Shawn Brimley |
Tentacles of Jihad: Targeting Transnational Support Networks As the five-year anniversary of the 11 September attacks approaches, America faces an enemy that is both a transnational organization and a growing ideological movement. As long as the war in Iraq continues, more recruits will join the disparate terror networks that feed off the conflict. |
National Defense
March 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Army Crime Fighters Shift Focus to Wars The U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Command--which usually concentrates on bringing that service's own lawbreakers to justice--now is employing its detective skills against enemy combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to the unit's deputy commander, Col. Paul R. Capstick. |
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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. |
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Autumn 2007
Gregory L. Cantwell |
Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war? |
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Winter 2005/2006
Mitchell J. Thompson |
Breaking the Proconsulate: A New Design for National Power There have been few truly transformational changes to the institutions of national security, only slight modifications to the existing ones. |
Reason
April 2005
Matt Welch |
The Pentagon's Secret Stash Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos. Legalities are one thing, but the real motivation for choking off access is obvious: Torture photos undermine support for the Iraq war. |
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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
June 2005
Tim Cavanaugh |
Rummy in the Dock A new lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld isn't likely to bring justice for prisoners abused at Abu Ghraib and other military prisons, but it may help resolve the controversy over who's accountable for the torture. |
Reason
October 2002
Ted Carpenter |
Fixing Foreign Policy How the U.S. should wage the war on terror |
National Defense
January 2016
Jon Harper |
Fight Over Gitmo Detainees Coming to a Head As President Barack Obama continues to push for the closure of the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before he leaves office, government cost data is stirring discussions about where to house detainees. |
National Defense
August 2005
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Strategy and Budget Driven by Global War on Terror The final report is not scheduled to be completed and sent to Congress until February, but looking at what is happening in the world today, there are clear indicators of where the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is headed -- to a change to the current military posture. |
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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 2006
Walker & Gillespie |
The State of War and Domestic Terrorism In this interview, Chet Richards and John Mueller discuss where America is at five years after the 9/11 attacks. |
Salon.com
December 5, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
My neighbor, the war criminal An author who followed the lives of survivors in Rwanda and Bosnia talks about how people and nations learn to go on after they've suffered the unthinkable... |
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Read Our Lips: No New Terrorists The Obama administration has no plans to release dangerous Guantanamo prisoners into their communities. |
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Summer 2006
David W. Barno |
Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency Strategy in a global counterinsurgency requires a new level of thinking. A world of irregular threats and asymmetrical warfare demands that we Americans broaden our thinking beyond the norms of traditional military action once sufficient to win our wars. |
Reason
June 2002
Brian Dohery |
Watching the AG Maybe Attorney General John Ashcroft isn't the greatest threat to individual liberty since the Inquisition. But that doesn't mean he hasn't been alarming so far... |
National Defense
January 2010
Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry. |
National Defense
November 2013
Sandra I. Erwin |
Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states. |
National Defense
March 2008
Sandra I. Erwin |
Tough Decisions on Future Military Roles and Missions A new commander in chief next year will decide if and when U.S. troops will leave Iraq. |
Reason
December 2003
Jesse Walker |
Bob Barr, Civil Libertarian Representing the right wing of the ACLU, Barr represents a set of conservatives' growing discomfort with the Bush administration's erosion of individual liberty. |
Reason
February 2002
Chris Bray |
The Media and GI Joe How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters... |
Wired
December 2001
John Arquilla & David Ronfeldt |
Fighting The Network War Conventional military power stands little chance against a band of swarming 14th-century terrorists, according to the authors, RAND analysts who wrote the book on "netwar." Here's their five-point plan to tear apart the terror network... |
Salon.com
October 11, 2000
Jesse Berrett |
Evil on trial Can war crimes tribunals and truth commissions really curb man's inhumanity to man? |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2007
Radley Balko |
Nowhere to Go U.S. officials are having an increasingly difficult time finding countries willing to grant asylum to Guantanamo inmates cleared of charges. |
National Defense
April 2013
Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
10 Reasons to Reform U.S. National Security Policy The U.S. security enterprise must be reformed to bring foreign policy in line with national values, and to enable improved fiscal health at the federal level. |
National Defense
February 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors. |
National Defense
November 2011 |
Readers Sound off on Recent Stories Military benefits under fire... Energy security... Military acquisitions... Smartphones in the army... |
National Defense
April 2013
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
In the Grips of Crises Abroad and at Home When considering the nation's budget problems at home -- how do we fund increasingly expensive government programs, keep faith with all promises and underwrite U.S. security and worldwide commitments? The answer is that we cannot do it all. |
National Defense
June 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Cries of 'Hollow Military' Stifle Rational Debate on Future Spending President Obama has called for $400 billion in Pentagon cuts over the next 12 years, and to some defense officials and lawmakers, this is just the opening salvo of a campaign to tear down the U.S. military. |
Reason
February 2006
Julian Sanchez |
Blowing Off Steam The American Civil Liberties Union released its analysis of 44 autopsies and death reports on detainees who died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan -- almost half were classed as homicides. |
National Defense
December 2009
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Before War Strategy Is Settled, Political Aims Must Be Defined Amid uncertainty and unease about the future of the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the importance of clear political objectives can't be overstated. |
National Defense
May 2015
Eoyang & Freeman |
Why the U.S. Must Reform The Military Personnel System If our military hopes to continue employing the best and brightest, it needs to consider fundamentally changing the military personnel system, not merely tinker with pay and benefits. |
