One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare by Linda Robinson PublicAffairs, 2013, 310 pp., $28.99 Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla by David Kilcullen Oxford University Press, 2013, 330 pp., $27.95  T he capture of Kabul in 2001 and the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 are […]

Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding by Husain Haqqani PublicAffairs, 2013, 432 pp., $28.99No Exit from Pakistan: America’s Tortured Relationship with Islamabad by Daniel S. Markey Cambridge University Press, 2013, 253 pp., $27.99  W hat a difficult, complicated, roller-coaster relationship the United States and Pakistan have had. Is there any […]

A swastika and hateful messages toward Koreans have been showing up on buildings across Tokyo—signs of the nationalistic turn of Japanese society and politics.

Ukraine’s reliance on Russian gas gives Putin a powerful weapon against Kiev. Gazprom is already hinting that prices will rise next month. And if recent history is any guide, Putin could turn off the taps entirely.

The foundations of Obama’s foreign policy have taken a serious beating over the weekend, with his desire to see a nuclear-free world perhaps one of the biggest casualties.

Beijing gets most of the bad press for its toxic smog problem, but New Delhi’s air was, on average, twice as polluted as the Chinese capital’s last year, according to a new report.

With news from Ukraine coming in at a rapid clip, it can get hard to keep track of how it all fits together. Here’s a map to help you make sense of things.

Good afternoon, TAI readers! We trust you’re settling in to March nicely. As you enjoy the end of your weekend, take the time to look back on some of the important stories you may have missed over the past week.

The recent pause in global warming took many by surprise—a result of a failure to communicate the vagaries of climate science. Greens oversimplify this problem to their detriment.

Researchers from all around the world are gathered in France to tackle the great energy dream: nuclear fusion. Our energy future is a lot less gloomy than Malthusians would like you to believe.