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Spycraft in Moscow
The wigs may seem silly, but Moscow’s exposure of CIA espionage is serious business.
The Left vs. the Liberal Media
Media Lens debunks the BBC’s humanitarian interventionists
How the Iraq War Became a War on Christians
And why supporting Syria’s rebels may extinguish Christianity in its oldest environs.
‘Star Wars’ Is the Way to Deal With North Korea
Multilateral missile defense—not just negotiation or war—is the strategic answer to rogue states.
The Sun Sets on the “Special Relationship”
What would Margaret Thatcher do in a post-American world?
Cyprus’s Silver Lining
Bailing in the rich and reckless may be rapacious, but it beats bailing them out.
Tony Shaffer Talks Leaks, COIN, and Modern War
The DIA operative the Pentagon tried to silence speaks out on cyberwar, counterinsurgency, and a defense audit
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Turkey Cracks the Whip
If Netanyahu wants rapprochement with Ankara, he must do more than apologize for the Mavi Marmara killings
Unlearned Lessons of the Iraq War
Ten years on, American foreign policy still suffers from alarmism and threat inflation.
‘Fawlty Towers’ in Mesopotamia
The war left Iraq bloody, unstable, and under Iranian influence. But otherwise OK.
Pope Francis vs. America
The first pontiff from the global South confronts an increasingly pagan West.
How Social Darwinism Made Modern China
A thousand years of meritocracy shaped the Middle Kingdom.
Gulf States Buy Egyptian Riots
Is Saudi money undermining Cairo’s Morsi government?
Who’s Turning Syria’s Civil War Into a Jihad?
The West, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia all have their own angles in the conflict
South Korea’s Secret Weakness
Our military aid to Seoul gives Pyongyang its only edge.
Who Will Contain North Korea?
Japan and South Korea should supply their own deterrence—including the nuclear kind.
From Sarajevo to the Senkakus
Disputed islands may be the spark that ignites a Sino-Japanese conflagration.
