Untutored enthusiasts of the Jasmine Revolutions could take a few lessons from the Color Revolutions. (You remember those, right?)

Amazighité is rapidly coming down from the Atlas Mountains. Never heard of it? You will.

The spearhead of the Transatlantic relationship is now undermining it.

Transforming America's Asian alliances into an integrated net-centric system.

How Samuel Huntington helps us understand the Jasmine Revolutions.

Hollywood classics illuminate the complexities of Afghanistan.

Collective defense in the coming century will require both greater reciprocity and more self-reliance on the part of our allies.

There are lessons to be learned from the rejuvenation of this former narco-hellhole of murder and mayhem.

An unsentimental checklist for assessing an ally's value in parlous times.

How the Pentagon’s official fundraiser for the war in Afghanistan discovered that stingy allies weren’t even the half of the problem compared to the mess in Washington.