Future Of War In The News
- in the news | May 23, 2014 | Future of War
Obama has put Pakistan drone war on hold
And, indeed, it is long past time for the United States to transition away from a state of perpetual war now that the threat from al Qaeda to Ameri... - in the news | May 13, 2014 | International Security
Drones will fill the sky
*Not so long ago, killing an American citizen on the other side of the world with an armed drone would have been in the realm of science fiction. * - in the news | May 08, 2014 | Future of War
Portrait of the Army as a Work in Progress
“In the age of the strategic corporal, "Got me!" is of course the wrong answer to journalistic queries. It has the distinct virtue of honesty, howe... - in the news | May 05, 2014 | International Security
What's at stake in war against girls' kidnappers?
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, a militant Islamist organization, released a video on Monday claiming responsibility for kidnapping more... - in the news | April 21, 2014 | International Security
Obama's high-stakes drone war in Yemen
The U.S. drone campaign in Yemen is very much President Obama's war. - in the news | April 15, 2014 | International Security
Four things we learned about the Boston bombing
As is often the case with big news events, much of what we understood to be the case in the immediate aftermath of the event and what we now know a... - in the news | April 15, 2014 | International Security
U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists
Since 9/11, extremists affiliated with a variety of far-right wing ideologies, including white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and anti-gove... - in the news | April 15, 2014 | International Security
11 things to know about world's biggest election
India's general election, the largest democratic exercise in history, begins Monday. - in the news | April 11, 2014 | International Security
The man who inspired the Boston bombings
One year after the Boston Marathon bombings and almost three years after his death in a CIA drone strike in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-... - in the news | April 02, 2014 | International Security
What if the Afghan elections actually work?
Afghans will go to the polls on Saturday to elect their second president since the overthrow of the Taliban in the winter of 2001. You might be won... - in the news | March 28, 2014 | International Security
Why the Saudis unfriended the U.S.
What went wrong? In recent months the normally hyper-discreet Saudis have gone on the record about their dissatisfactions with the Obama administra... - in the news | March 25, 2014 | International Security
Get the government out of your phone records
The Obama administration is proposing to scrap the NSA's bulk collection of all Americans' phone call records. The administration's proposal is emi... - in the news | March 21, 2014 | International Security
Pakistan sheltered Bin Laden? Prove it
It is, of course, hard to prove negatives, but having spent around a year reporting intensively on the hunt for al Qaeda's leader for my 2012 book ... - in the news | March 18, 2014 | International Security
Did terrorists take control of Flight 370?
Could the mystery of Malaysia Airlines 370 then be explained as an act of terrorism? - in the news | March 16, 2014 | International Security
Plane takeovers a dangerous reality
Air Safety Week, an aviation industry magazine, ran a story in January 2001 observing that, "the number of cases where the sanctity of the cockpit ... - in the news | March 12, 2014 | International Security
Dianne Feinstein is no bomb thrower
In an angry speech, Feinstein asserted that the CIA has violated federal laws by covertly removing classified documents from her committee's comput... - in the news | March 11, 2014 | International Security
When passenger jets mysteriously disappear
Nothing gets conspiracy theorists going more than a passenger plane crashing under mysterious circumstances. - in the news | March 07, 2014 | International Security
Cyberwar hits Ukraine
Ukrainian security officials are complaining that unknown attackers are interfering with the mobile phone services of members of Ukraine's parliame... - in the news | February 26, 2014 | International Security
Forecasts of terrorist apocalypse? Never mind
One topic where pundits, politicians and prognosticators of every persuasion don't have any problem about making pessimistic predictions is terrorism. - in the news | February 19, 2014 | International Security
Will the U.S. negotiate with terrorists?
The U.S. government's long-stated position is that it won't negotiate with terrorists. But are there exceptions? - in the news | February 11, 2014 | International Security
Target an American with drones?
President Barack Obama is the first American president known to have authorized the assassination of a US citizen. - in the news | February 05, 2014 | International Security
A terror group too brutal for al Qaeda?
When even al Qaeda publicly rejects you because you are too brutal, it's likely a reasonable indicator that you are. A long simmering dispute betwe...