Learning from Nixon’s Vietnam Ordeal
by Michael H. Hunt

Logistical Support Options after the Manas Air Base Closing by Reed Livergood With the United States planning a significant increase in troop levels in Afghanistan, the pace of the counter-terrorism effort in that country will increase dramatically. As it does, … Read more

by Bruce Byers

Last year the U.S. Foreign Service suffered a public relations disaster because of the widely reported “town hall meeting” at the State Department in which some Foreign Service Officers protested the prospect of being required to serve in Iraq. Eventually, volunteers were found to fill all the positions opening in 2008, but as is usually the case, the good news never overtook the bad.

Review by Ambassador (ret.) Michael W. Cotter
James F. Dobbins, After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan, Dulles, VA, Potomac Books, 2008. Pp. viii, 168.

A League of Autocracies?
by David K. Schneider

by Barry R. McCaffrey, General, USA (Retired) We are pleased to offer our readers this report on Afghanistan by retired Army General Barry McCaffrey, based on his visit there in late July. He finds the situation difficult and likely to … Read more

by Michael W. Cotter

by Renee Earle A senior active-duty Foreign Service Officer examines the process of entering the Foreign Service, from the Rogers Act of 1924 to the present. She looks at how the changing needs of the Foreign Service have affected the … Read more

by Janet Andres On July 14, President Putin announced his decision to suspend Russian participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). Concluded in the waning days of the Cold War, CFE has been both surprisingly successful … Read more

by Matthew Puglisi, Jason Hanover, Phil Purcell, Kathleen List

by Amir Taheri In this article, published here with the permission of Commentary magazine, the author takes issue with the widespread view, reflected in the report of the Iraq Study Group, that resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is key to … Read more

An Emerging Security Dilemma
by Greg Granger

by Adrian A. Basora

by Alan Berlind

Ambassador Mark Palmer is the author of the recently published Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025 (2003) in which he tells the story of all the world’s remaining dictators, their vulnerabilities, and how … Read more

Introduction American national security policy has been rightly characterized as unilateralist since the inauguration of President George W. Bush, and especially since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.1 It is important, however, to clarify what unilateralism means in this context. … Read more

by Bruce Laingen

by Michael H. Hunt

by Sean L. Yom