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Reykjavik: Turning Point of the Cold War
Twenty-five years ago this month President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, Iceland, at a summit that appears, in retrospect, to truly be the “turning point in the Cold War.”
Political Grandstanding Imperils American Influence over the Question of Palestinian Statehood
By Evan Meyerson
Pointing the Finger of Scorn at Iran
The Obama administration has publicly accused Iran of plotting to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Washington. Why?
Regulatory Obstacles to Military Operational Readiness
The full complexity, benefits, and costs of the regulatory state, especially as they relate to national security, are too infrequently discussed or appreciated publicly in the United States.
Mopping up the Last War or Stumbling into the Next?
Sir Daniel Bethlehem considers whether policy makers are asking themselves the right questions regarding out-of-theater targeting.
U.S. Drone Strike Kills Al-Aulaqi
On September 30, a United States drone strike in northern Yemen killed Anwar al-Aulaqi, an influential and American-born member of al-Qaeda. Al-Aulaqi is believed to have inspired several successful and attempted terrorist attacks, including the Fort Hood shooting in...
Libyan Triumphalism
The happy outcome of Kaddafi’s removal does not make the Libyan project a sensible enterprise for the United States and its allies to have undertaken―let alone a model for future interventions.
The New NYPD: Pushing Civil Liberty Bounds to Keep the City Safe
After a months-long investigation involving dozens of interviews with local and federal officials, the Associated Press has found that, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the New York Police Department has transformed into one of the “most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies” in the United States, through its covert operations in Muslim neighborhoods designed to root out terrorist plots.
Think Like a Guerilla: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Sri Lanka
By Malik Ahmad Jalal* Click here to read the full text as a PDF The Roman Empire in Germania, the French in Algeria, the United States in Vietnam, and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan all conjure up the myth that insurgencies cannot be defeated. In recent years, this...
Juan Zarate Asks, “Whither the Arab Spring?”
By James Moxness-- Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism and the newest member of the NSJ Advisory Board, Juan Zarate, gave a lecture last week at Harvard Law School entitled “Whither the Arab Spring?” concerning the recent political upheaval...