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Foreign Policy January/February 2019 Essay

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America’s Long Goodbye

The turbulence of the Trump administration is a symptom of a wider, and more permanent, shift: the passing of the generation of leaders formed by World War II and...

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Executive March/April 2018 Comment

Trump's Lucky Year

Sooner or later, Trump's luck will run out. And when it does, the true costs of his presidency will become clear.

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Adult supervision? Trump with Mattis and Kelly at the White House, October 2017.

Strategy & Conflict January/February 2016 Capsule Review

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Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier’s Memoir

Galvin’s memoir (introduced by an admiring Petraeus) is a characteristically modest, wry, and thoughtful account not only of leadership but also of the rise, fall, and...

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WMD & Proliferation January/February 2016 Essay

Time to Get Tough  on Tehran

Given the serious challenge Iran poses to U.S. interests, Washington should seek to roll back the country’s growing influence in the Middle East while systematically...

Eliot A. Cohen, Eric S. Edelman, and Ray Takeyh

A military truck carries a missile and a picture of Ayatollah Khamenei to celebrate the Iran-Iraq War

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Jun 19, 2015 Review Essay

Anonymous No More

More than most insurgent groups in history, the “anonymous soldiers” of Hoffman’s history left behind a legacy of accomplishment, as well as of terror—a conclusion as...

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March/April 2013 Capsule Review

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Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War

Most college students today were not even born when the Gulf War occurred: this book is a good way of helping them think about what it meant.

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Jul 10, 2009 Reading List

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What to Read on Fighting Insurgencies

An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on fighting insurgencies.

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Theory July/August 2004 Essay

History and the Hyperpower

Whether or not the United States today should be called an empire is a semantic game. The important point is that it resembles previous empires enough to make the...

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Terrorism & Counterterrorism November/December 2002 Capsule Review

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Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism

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Defense Policy November/December 2002 Capsule Review

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Armies Without States: The Privatization of Security

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Defense Policy November/December 2002 Capsule Review

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The Enemy's House Divided

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U.S. Foreign Policy November/December 2002 Capsule Review

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The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq

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Human Rights November/December 2002 Capsule Review

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You've Got Dissent: Chinese Dissident Use of the Internet and Beijing's Counter-Strategies

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Europe November/December 2002 Capsule Review

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Balkan Battlegrounds: A Military History of the Yugoslav Conflict, 1990-1995

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Intelligence November/December 2002 Capsule Review

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The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship

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Terrorism & Counterterrorism September/October 2002 Capsule Review

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The International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, Herzliyah Interdisciplinary Center: www.ict.org.il

The War on Terror: www.theatlantic.com/waronterror....

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Terrorism & Counterterrorism September/October 2002 Capsule Review

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The War on Terror www.theatlantic.com/waronterror

The International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, Herzliyah Interdisciplinary Center: www.ict.org.il....

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Science & Technology September/October 2002 Capsule Review

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Linked: The New Science of Networks

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WMD & Proliferation September/October 2002 Capsule Review

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Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man

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Defense Policy September/October 2002 Capsule Review

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Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945

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