Publications

The war against the Taliban and international terrorism focused global attention on the U.S. military. In the first months of this new war, the United States conducted both air and ground operations in Afghanistan in support of the Northern...

In January 1996 I was reassigned to U.S. Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington. A captain surrounded by colonels and generals, I was made the desk officer for chemical-biological matters. I was presently given a concept paper for a force...

Defining the term “terrorism” is probably of little interest to many, who might simply say “I can’t define it but I know it when I see it,” to borrow Justice Potter Stewart’s famous words. There are, however, those scholars who...

After the September 11 terrorist strikes, many people wondered, was this an avoidable intelligence failure? The question is critical because, years from now, Osama bin Laden may be seen less as a mere terrorist and more as a pioneer...

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, the Bush administration and political leaders from both parties proclaimed a “war on terrorism” in response to what they characterized as acts of war directed against the American homeland. At the same...

The war that began with the terrorist attacks of September 11 has been defined in different ways, and these definitions are meant to have political consequences. President George W. Bush immediately defined the war as one against “terrorists with...

The September 11 attacks on America prompted those who tried to make sense of the tragedy to take a fresh look at two documents authored by Osama bin Laden for insight into the worldview and immediate motives of the...

In the immediate aftermath of the catastrophes of September 11, it was easy to forget the earlier internal and transatlantic debate over how the United States should engage with the world. That debate, increasingly partisan and strident, raged during...

The NATO intervention in Kosovo in spring 1999 was a watershed event for transatlantic relations. On the one hand, it was NATO’s first military intervention, and its success reconfirmed a half-century of U.S.–Western European cooperation and community-building in their...

Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001). The Tiananmen Papers, compiled by Zhang Liang; Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, eds. (New York: PublicAffairs, 2001). Steven W. Mosher, Hegemon: China’s...