The Landing Zone

A Questionable Partnership

President Obama's recent agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai is all about the substance, not the style.


NATO’s Waterloo?

April 13, 2012

Next month’s NATO summit in Chicago offers alliance leaders an opportunity to either ensure NATO’s future, or shove it toward its Waterloo.

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Hard Questions in Afghanistan

March 15, 2012

The American people need to ask some serious questions about the U.S. goals in Afghanistan.

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Threatening Skies

February 16, 2012

If proliferation gives us reason to worry, the global web of missile defenses offers reason for hope.

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A 'concert of democracies'

January 16, 2012

The United Nations never ceases to disappoint its supporters, or confirm the worst suspicions of its critics.

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A bigger military

December 16, 2011

The U.S. Armed Forces are facing a serious challenge on the recruiting front — the bulging waistlines of America’s recruiting-age population.

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Tilting at windmills

November 19, 2011

Veterans groups on both sides of the Atlantic are voicing opposition to the French president's plan to build wind turbines off the Normandy coast.

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The Other Anniversary

October 14, 2011

What many Americans seem to forget is that what began on Flight 93 continued in earnest on Oct. 7, 2001 - the day U.S. forces invaded Afghanistan.

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Ten Years Later

September 12, 2011

Many truths have emerged post-9/11; among them, we are a nation at war, and winning that war will take time.

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