Publications

On August 10 the British authorities thwarted an Islamist plot seeking to destroy in-flight some ten transatlantic flights to the United States and arrested 21 suspects. While most details are unavailable at this time, this episode, a little after...

The war in southern Lebanon revealed significant weaknesses in the posture of the Israeli defense force—and it has important implications for U.S. defense policy. The amorphous Hezbollah, led by Hassan Nasrallah represents a rising threat. Mixing an organized political...

The debates among American strategists before both the first (1991) and the second (2003) Gulf Wars naturally differed, because strategic circumstances differed. But at least one common element—aside from the obvious fact that Iraq was the target of both...

What do George Clooney, Manute Bol, Elie Wiesel, and Olympic speed skater Joey Cheek have in common? They have all publicly called for the UN Genocide Convention of 1948 to be applied to Darfur and for greater intervention to...

The grueling U.S. war in Iraq and the challenges it has presented to the U.S. military have wonderfully concentrated the minds of American defense-policy analysts. As long as this war continues—and if the Vietnam War is any guide, for...

Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). Read the full article here....

Abstract At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Washington was embarking on a defense transformation emphasizing missile defense, space assets, precision weaponry, and information technology. This transformation proved irrelevant to the national security threats we now face, with the...

Much ink has been spilled in the aftermath of the Pentagon’s new Quadrennial Defense Review since its release in February 2006. Overall, many consider the document a mixed bag. Depending upon one’s views, it either gets some things right...

Abstract The United States has to contend with rising powers ranging from the prc, which is already an economic and political great power and potentially a military threat, to Al Qaeda and the network of Islamist terror organizations, whose...

Abstract The global defense industrial sector is a remarkably accurate indicator of the distribution of power in the post–Cold War international system. However, the defense industrial sector as a policy tool has received relatively little scrutiny, even though it...