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Arms Control & Disarmament Apr 22, 2015 Response

The Wrong Lessons From North Korea

The case of North Korea clearly exposes the dangers of the United States seeking a nuclear agreement with a state that has no intention of abiding by one. The United...

Sue Mi Terry and Max Boot

Strategy & Conflict November/December 2014 Comment

More Small Wars

Washington doesn’t have the luxury of simply avoiding insurgencies, so it needs to figure out how to fight them better. Drawn from more than a decade of war, here are...

Max Boot

Same old story: a U.S. soldier and a Vietcong fighter, South Vietnam, October 1966.

Strategy & Conflict March/April 2013 Essay

The Evolution of Irregular War

Pundits tend to treat terrorism and guerrilla tactics as something new, but nothing could be further from the truth. Although the agendas have changed over the years -...

Max Boot

Mar 15, 2012 News Release

Stephen Biddle and Max Boot Discuss U.S. Afghanistan Policy

Stephen Biddle Max Boot Jonathan Tepperman

Stephen Biddle and Max Boot discuss U.S. Afghanistan policy with Jonathan D. Tepperman.

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Terrorism & Counterterrorism May 5, 2011 Snapshot

Al Qaeda's Prognosis

What will the death of Osama bin Laden mean for the future of al Qaeda? The terrorist organization may be dealt a crippling blow by bin Laden’s loss, but the larger...

Max Boot

Pakistan - Foreign Affairs

Terrorism & Counterterrorism July/August 2009 Essay

Pirates, Then and Now

To defeat piracy in centuries past, governments pursued a more active defense at sea and a political solution on land. The current piracy epidemic off the coast of...

Max Boot

Terrorism & Counterterrorism May 6, 2009 Reading List

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What to Read on Pirates

An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on pirates.

Max Boot

Oceans Seas - Foreign Affairs

U.S. Foreign Policy March/April 2005 Essay

The Struggle to Transform the Military

The fighting in Iraq has exposed the limits of Donald Rumsfeld's transformation agenda. The U.S. military remains underprepared for dealing with guerrillas, and such...

Max Boot

United States - Foreign Affairs

Arms Control & Disarmament July/August 2003 Essay

The New American Way of War

"The American way of war" refers to the grinding strategy of attrition that U.S. generals traditionally employed to prevail in combat. But that was then. Spurred by...

Max Boot

United States - Foreign Affairs

Security March/April 2000 Review Essay

Paving the Road to Hell: The Failure of U.N. Peacekeeping

William Shawcross shows how U.N. peacekeeping has failed but does not draw the obvious conclusion: the world's hot spots need U.S. intervention, and plenty of it.

Max Boot

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