The Saudi Charm Offensive
(Washington, D.C.): Apparently, it all started with a column by the New York Times' Thomas Friedman in early February urging...
Iran
Where’s O.S.I. When We Need It?
(Washington, D.C.): On the same day Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld felt obliged to shut down the Pentagon's recently established Office...
Rumsfeld’s Now Hear This’ on Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): It was easy to see the old naval aviator in Don Rumsfeld as he appeared on the Sunday...
Who’s Disinforming’ Who?
(Washington, D.C.): Last week, the New York Times did a front-page hit piece on the Pentagon's recently established Office of...
Post-Mortem on ‘Pearl Harbor II’
(Washington, D.C.): Within the next few days, leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees will set the date for...
Dangerous mixed signals on the ‘Axis of Evil’
What's going on here? In last week's State of the Union address, President Bush solemnly declared: States like and their...
Navy Missile Defense Success Offers Bush a Chance to Issue a Challenge for the History Books
(Washington, D.C.): Tomorrow night, President Bush has a chance to make not only a memorable speech, but an historic one....
Who Pulled the Plug on the Chinese Bugs’?
(Washington, D.C.): A highly classified U.S. operation that promised to provide important -- perhaps even geopolitically explosive -- insights into...
What to Do About Saudi Arabia
(Washington, D.C.): The recent law suit by an American servicewoman ordered to wear head-to-toe "cover" and submit to other indignities...
No Need to Know’
(Washington, D.C.): A "need to know" is one of the most time-tested principles of information security. According to this principle,...
What to Do About Iran
(Washington, D.C.): The front page of today's New York Times confirms that what has been predictable -- and predicted --...
China: The Not-So-Hidden Dragon in the War on Terror
(Washington, D.C.): If Pakistan and India go to nuclear war in the coming days, each country will be blamed for...
Policy Powerhouse’: Guardian Notes Ascendancy of Realists in Bush Security Policy Team — and the Center that Supports Them
(Washington, D.C.): On 17 December, the Center for Security Policy was paid the highest praise by the British newspaper, the...
The Way Ahead: Former D.C.I. Woolsey Offers Blueprint for Successfully Prosecuting the War on Terror
(Washington, D.C.): President Bush is getting a lot of advice -- much of it as unsolicited as it unsound --...
Now Hear This’: Does the President Mean What He Says?
(Washington, D.C.): Every skilled government official knows the magic words: "What the President meant to say is...." And with good...
Now for the War Aims
(Washington, D.C.): With Sunday's aerial attacks against targets in Afghanistan, the United States' military might has begun to be employed...