We Won Years Ago

Such success as we have achieved in Iraq, like the strategic and tactical failures there that went before, is due largely to the (bewilderingly episodic) leadership of President Bush.

Winning a Civil War?

The U.S. military has supported and enabled the Sunni Awakening but we cannot delude ourselves into thinking that the U.S. military initiated or commands it.

For the Long Haul

Success in Iraq will come when Americans and Iraqis have arrived at a relationship durable enough to ride out political change in both societies.

Winning Will Resonate

If Iraq drops to page-three or page-four story by the end of 2008, that would qualify as a better outcome, if not exactly a “win.”

Think Local

Leverage has always been the defining characteristic of statecraft done well. It is time we employed it strategically, not just tactically, in Iraq.

How China Is Ruled

The Chinese Communist Party’s scheme for keeping political control after the Tiananmen crisis is now the problem.

Political Angles

For most of a war-weary public, the lull in violence is not enough to redeem the heavy costs of our ill-fated expedition into a Mesopotamian heart of darkness.

Smart Power, Chinese Style

China’s creative, long-range thinking is running circles around the United States.

The U.S. Army

What imprint will the experience of Iraq leave on U.S.
ground forces? The picture is mixed.

Rediscovering The New World

Deep changes in Latin America demand a new U.S. agenda.

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