“Conspiracy theorists” marvel at the sight of Viktor Bout on the front page of the New York Times.
Viktor Bout, Much Bruited About by Far Left (and Right), Just a Fall Guy?
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War & Peace
The Lebanon Border: “Uniquely” Dangerous
After Hezbollah fought it to a standstill in the 2006 war, the Israeli Defense Forces have been training for a rematch.
Withdrawal from Iraq: Remembering the Quaker’s Colonel
Will Obama’s speech tonight echo Bush’s endless declarations of success in Iraq?
Review: ‘The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon’
“Many will take offense to this book — on both the defense side and the humanitarian side,” write Mary Kaldor and Shannon D. Beebe in the concluding paragraphs of their latest book The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon. Indeed, throughout their book Kaldor and Beebe try to find a common ground between what are often thought of as innate opposites: the military and civilian agencies. Their book is an attempt to provide a viable human security alternative to the conventional military responses to warfare.
Reader Challenge: Why Did al Qaeda Jump the Gun on U.S. Retreat From Iraq?
Why didn’t al-Qaeda wait until U.S. forces left before mounting its latest round of attacks?
How Nonproliferation Became a Dirty Word
Coining a clever euphemism and co-opting a key nuclear term aid pro-nuclear forces in furthering their agenda.
Stripping End-Timers of Their Nuclear Ticket to Armageddon
Embracing Armageddon, as well as creating the conditions for it, is blatantly un-Christian.
Does the Right Really Believe That the Left Supports Jihad?
Among conservatives aligned with Israel, some claim that the left supports jihad.
Interview with Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich is a professor of international relations and history at Boston University and the author of the new book, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War. You can read a review of this book here. Bacevich talks with FPIF’s Andrew Feldman about current U.S. military policy and the ethics of intervention.
Review: Washington Rules
For his first 40 years, Andrew Bacevich lived the conventional life of an army officer. In the military world where success depended on conformity, he followed the rules and “took comfort in orthodoxy…[finding] assurance in conventional wisdom.” Comfort, that is, until he had a chance to peer behind the Iron Curtain, and was shocked to find East Germany more third-world shambles than first-rate threat.