23,000 Killed Is Not a Red Line
By Oliver Kaplan Don’t worry. The red line hasn’t been tripped yet. At least President Obama said as…
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Fortress of Solitude: What Does Diplomatic Isolation Actually Do?
By Andrew Kydd Much has been made of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s decision to attend the upcoming summit…
Five Big Trends I Saw Travelling Around the World
By Barbara F. Walter Last spring I had the chance to travel around the world. Mostly in the…
The Case Against Intervention
By Erica Chenoweth How does military intervention affect ordinary people? Does it spare them from violence by the…
Déjà vu in Central Africa
By David E. Cunningham For the last several weeks, M23, a new rebel group made up of former soldiers…
Logistics and US Force Readiness
By Kelly M. Greenhill An old military adage, frequently attributed to US Army General Omar Bradley, a highly-decorated,…
Locals Nix the Narcos, and the Narcs
By Oliver Kaplan Community friction is not an interdiction fiction. Today I’m flagging an essay of mine appearing…
Poliscifi II: War Sanitized
By Joseph Young After receiving generally positive feedback about poliscifi I thought I’d dip my toes in that water…
Israel and the Iranian Bomb
By Erica Chenoweth Following up on Andrew Kydd’s terrific post on Israel’s thinking about the Iranian nuclear program,…
Operation Ramadan?
By Oliver Kaplan Today I’m writing about the possibility of conducting psy-ops in Syria, Colombia-style. One year ago,…