August 20, 2010
A troubling milestone arrived on Thursday when the US withdrew its final combat brigade from Iraq. The remaining 50,000 US forces are charged with advising and training the Iraqi military. President Barack Obama has pledged to withdraw them as well by the end of next year. When US-led allied forces...
August 16, 2010
Fred Kaplan's admiring rendering of his interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, which appears today in Foreign Policy's online edition under the headline "The Transformer," will assure Slate's national-security correspondent continued access to the Pentagon's E-Ring power corridors....
August 04, 2010
Chairman John Kerry wrote his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today advising them that he was postponing for at least six weeks the panel's "mark-up" of the resolution of ratification of the so-called New START Treaty. This is a symptom of a treaty in trouble. START...
