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"Guns & Butter," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), November 16, 2009

"America's Alliances Are Costly Relics," by Justin Logan, DefenseNews, November 9, 2009

"Getting the Vietnam Analogy Right in Afghanistan," by Leon T. Hadar, Huffington Post, October 21, 2009

"Transforming Japan-US Alliance," by Doug Bandow, Korea Times, October 20, 2009

"Defining Victory to Win a War," by David Axe, Malou Innocent and Jason Reich, Foreign Policy, October 6, 2009

"Book Review: A Bubble in Time," by Leon T. Hadar, American Conservative, September 29, 2009

"It's the Balance of Power, Stupid!," by Leon T. Hadar, Huffington Post, September 29, 2009

"Misunderstanding Modern War," by Stanley Kober, Guardian, September 27, 2009

"With Missile Shield Change, National Interests Get a Leg Up on the Military-Industrial Complex," by Leon T. Hadar, Huffington Post, September 22, 2009

"A New Monroe Doctrine," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), September 21, 2009

"Coming Triumph of the Taliban and Pakistan?," by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, Economic Times (India), September 20, 2009

"U.S. Must Narrow Objectives in Afghanistan," by Malou Innocent and Christopher Preble, World Politics Review, September 16, 2009

"No More Troops for Afghanistan," by Malou Innocent, Huffington Post, September 16, 2009

"Answering Questions About Afghanistan," by Stanley Kober, RealClearWorld.com, September 14, 2009

"President Barack Obama: Time for Washington to Do Less Abroad," by Doug Bandow, Huffington Post, September 8, 2009

"Myth v. Fact: Afghanistan," by Malou Innocent, Huffington Post, September 4, 2009

"Afghanistan May Be Obama's Vietnam," by Gene Healy, DC Examiner, September 1, 2009

"Win, Hold and Lose," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), September 1, 2009

"How to Deal With North Korea," by Doug Bandow, Korea Times, August 31, 2009

"The US Must Reassess Its Drone Policy," by Malou Innocent, Lebanon Daily Star, August 25, 2009

"The Limits of US Influence," by Stanley Kober, Guardian, August 20, 2009

"Who's In Charge?," by Doug Bandow, Korea Times, August 9, 2009

"United Colors of Democracy," by Ted Galen Carpenter, American Conservative, July 29, 2009

"Book Review: First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia," by Doug Bandow, Washington Times, July 28, 2009

"Biden's Big Mouth Bites Russia," by Malou Innocent, RealClearWorld.com, July 28, 2009

"Blank Checks," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), July 20, 2009

"Afghanistan: The Deadliest Month and It's Time to Get Out," by Malou Innocent, Huffington Post, July 20, 2009

"Following the New Australian Defense Model," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, July 13, 2009

"'Staying the Course' Prolongs Afghan War," by Malou Innocent, South China Morning Post, July 10, 2009

"Going 'All In' with North Korea," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), July 9, 2009

"Iran's Failed Revolution," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), July 7, 2009

"NATO Gains Weight," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), June 25, 2009

"A Tattered Umbrella," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), June 16, 2009

"Book Review: Wired for War," by David Isenberg, Asia Times, June 12, 2009

"Nuclear Realities," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), June 11, 2009

"Obama Speech Connects to the Founders' Foreign Policy," by Christopher Preble, RealClearPolitics.com, June 9, 2009

"Choices or Echoes?," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), June 1, 2009

"Obama's Interfaith Dialogue: Let's Talk Persecution," by Doug Bandow, Lebanon Daily Star, June 1, 2009

"Forgetting Pyongyang," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), May 27, 2009

"The New World Order (Part III)," by Christopher Preble, Globalist, May 21, 2009

"Does Military Power Keep Us Safe? (Part II)," by Christopher Preble, Globalist, May 20, 2009

"Proliferated Nonsense," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), May 20, 2009

"Interfaith Dialogue: The Great Unmentionable," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, May 19, 2009

"U.S. Defense and the Four Percent Smokescreen," by Christopher Preble, Globalist, May 18, 2009

"US, Pakistan Need to Bridge Afghan Divide," by Malou Innocent, South China Morning Post, May 14, 2009

"Obama Must Move beyond Pseudo-Events," by Leon T. Hadar, Lebanon Daily Star, May 11, 2009

"With Realism and Restraint," by Doug Bandow, Korea Times, May 1, 2009

"The US Should Cut Military Spending in Half," by Benjamin H. Friedman, Christian Science Monitor, April 27, 2009

"Ignoring Kim," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), April 20, 2009

"Red Scare," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), April 15, 2009

"A Bold Plan B for North Korea," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Christian Science Monitor, April 15, 2009

"Let's Really Cut the Pentagon's Budget," by Gene Healy, DC Examiner, April 14, 2009

"Obama's Wise Approach toward Afghanistan," by Christopher Preble and Malou Innocent, Cato.org, April 13, 2009

"The Iron Triangle vs. Small Wars," by Benjamin H. Friedman, World Politics Review, April 9, 2009

"Old NATO Turns 60," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, April 2, 2009

"Cheney's Deflection of the Truth," by Malou Innocent, Huffington Post, March 18, 2009

"Squaring the Pentagon," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), March 10, 2009

"Leaving Baghdad," by Christopher Preble, National Interest (Online), March 6, 2009

"Fight Drugs or Terrorists — But Not Both," by Ted Galen Carpenter and David Rittgers, Guardian, March 6, 2009

"Conservatives Need a Humbler Foreign Policy," by Gene Healy, DC Examiner, March 3, 2009

"Don't Bet on Obama Reining in Defense Spending," by Benjamin H. Friedman, World Politics Review, February 18, 2009

"The Asian Century," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), February 17, 2009

"Drug Gangs Winning the War for Mexico," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Houston Chronicle, February 7, 2009

"The US Is No Longer a Global Hegemon," by Leon T. Hadar, The Daily Star, February 3, 2009

"Kim's Temper Tantrum," by Doug Bandow, National Interest (Online), February 3, 2009

"Lazy Allies," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), February 2, 2009

"Averting the Clash," by Leon T. Hadar, American Conservative, February 2, 2009

"President Obama: A Realist Interventionist?," by Leon T. Hadar, PRA's Right Web, January 29, 2009

"Defense Doesn't Need Stimulus," by William D. Hartung and Christopher Preble, Washington Times, January 28, 2009

"Obama's Mumbai Problem," by Malou Innocent, Guardian, January 27, 2009

"Bush's Legacy: The End of an Error," by Malou Innocent, Cato.org, January 26, 2009

"What Obama Should Do in Pakistan," by Malou Innocent, Huffington Post, January 23, 2009

"A Fresh Take on Afghanistan," by Malou Innocent, The Wall Street Journal Asia, January 20, 2009

"Obama's Legislative Funeral," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), January 15, 2009

"America's Imperiled Military Lifeline through Pakistan," by Malou Innocent and Ted Galen Carpenter, Dallas Morning News, December 28, 2008

"Be Wary of Using Military as Police," by Gene Healy and Benjamin H. Friedman, Orange County Register, December 26, 2008

"If Islamabad's Accountable, Is ISI to Blame?," by Jagadeesh Gokhale and Malou Innocent, Cato.org, December 11, 2008

"China Must Be Central to US Global Agenda," by Leon T. Hadar, South China Morning Post, December 10, 2008

"Afghanistan's Drug Problem," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), December 5, 2008

"Obama Chooses to Stay the Course on Foreign Policy," by Christopher Preble, Cato.org, December 3, 2008

"Will Obama Bring 'Change' to Bush's War on Terror? Hopefully," by Malou Innocent, Huffington Post, December 1, 2008

"Greatness to Be Thankful For," by Stanley Kober, Cato.org, November 25, 2008

"Obama Must Tread Warily in Afghanistan," by Malou Innocent, South China Morning Post, November 21, 2008

"Worse than Bush?," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), November 7, 2008

"US Urged to Overhaul Nuclear Arsenal," by David Isenberg, Asia Times, November 4, 2008

"Islam and the West: The Myth of the Green Peril," by Leon T. Hadar, Energy Tribune, November 3, 2008

"The Pentagon on Defense," by Christopher Preble and Benjamin H. Friedman, National Interest (Online), October 31, 2008

"Questionable Deals in a Volatile Region," by Malou Innocent and Christopher Preble, South China Morning Post, October 27, 2008

"Don't Expand NATO," by Benjamin H. Friedman and Justin Logan, World Politics Review, October 22, 2008

"Africa and Our Election," by Tony Leon, Washington Times, October 19, 2008

"Stephen Harper: One of U.S.," by Patrick Basham, Ottawa Citizen, October 13, 2008

"The US Military's Fallout Shelter," by David Isenberg, Asia Times Online, October 8, 2008

"A Nowhere Foreign Policy Debate," by Leon T. Hadar, PRA's Right Web, October 1, 2008

"A Profile in Cowardice," by Gene Healy, National Review (Online), September 25, 2008

"The Limits of Deterrence," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), September 3, 2008

"Kosovo Precedent Prevails," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), August 26, 2008

"Musharraf Has Gone, but Is Civilian Rule Better?," by Malou Innocent, South China Morning Post, August 25, 2008

"Woodrow Wilson's War," by Justin Logan, National Review (Online), August 21, 2008

"Should People in Democratic Glass Houses Throw Stones?," by Patrick Basham, Pravda, August 21, 2008

"Czechoslovakia on Their Minds," by Leon T. Hadar, American Conservative, August 18, 2008

"Poking the Bear," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), July 29, 2008

"Why Muslims Still Hate Us," by Patrick Basham, Tampa Tribune, July 28, 2008

"Losing Afghanistan," by Leon T. Hadar, American Conservative, July 28, 2008

"How Good Was the Good War?," by Ted Galen Carpenter, American Conservative, July 22, 2008

"John McCain on Foreign Policy: Even Worse Than Bush," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Chronicles, July 21, 2008

"Disarming the World," by Malou Innocent, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 16, 2008

"Curb Your Enthusiasm," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), June 27, 2008

"Firing Blanks in Afghanistan," by David Isenberg, Asia Times Online, June 26, 2008

"Attacking Iran: The Last Resort," by David Isenberg, Asia Times Online, June 18, 2008

"Worried Dragon," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), June 11, 2008

"McCain Talking Too Tough on Russia, China," by Malou Innocent, Orange County Register, June 3, 2008

"Do No Harm," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Washington Times, June 2, 2008

"Politics, Not Need, Accelerates F-22 and Other Programs," by Christopher Preble, The Hill, June 2, 2008

"It's Costly to Be the World's Sheriff," by Christopher Preble, Scripps News, May 30, 2008

"Balance of Power Is Continuing to Shift From the US," by Leon T. Hadar, Israel News, May 21, 2008

"Bush's Bizarro World," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), May 19, 2008

"Debating Liberal Internationalism," by Justin Logan, Cato.org, May 15, 2008

"The Return of Limited Nuclear War?," by David Isenberg, CounterPunch, May 2, 2008

"Rapid Reaction: McCain's Folly," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), May 1, 2008

"A Pro-Taliban Threat," by Malou Innocent, Washington Times, April 29, 2008

"The Problem of Making Policy Based on the Premise 'If'," by Benjamin H. Friedman, Australian Financial Review, April 18, 2008

"Don't 'Pull an Iraq' in Afghanistan," by Benjamin H. Friedman, Christian Science Monitor, April 3, 2008

"Bridges Over Troubled Water," by Christopher Preble and Jeremy Lott, American Spectator (Online), March 21, 2008

"The Pitfalls of Forecasting Foreign Policy," by Leon T. Hadar, PRA's Right Web, March 13, 2008

"Learning the Right Lessons From Iraq," by Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble, The Courier-Journal, March 2, 2008

"Modest Proposals for Reform," by David Isenberg, United Press International, February 22, 2008

"War by the Rules," by David Isenberg, Asia Times, February 11, 2008

"Dogs of War: More Oversight Needed," by David Isenberg, United Press International, February 8, 2008

"The Shah of Pakistan?," by Malou Innocent, WashingtonPost.com, January 23, 2008

"Argue Like It's 1991," by Justin Logan, American Conservative, December 17, 2007

"Enabling The Kremlin," by Andrei Illarionov, Cato.org, December 14, 2007

"The Politics of Chicken Little(ism)," by Benjamin H. Friedman, WashingtonPost.com, December 5, 2007

"Waiting for Camp David, the Sequel," by Leon T. Hadar, Orange County Register, November 30, 2007

"Jim Talent's Untalented Defense Analysis," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), November 26, 2007

"Fred Thompson's Defense Diatribe," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), November 15, 2007

"It's Past Time to Bury the Hitler Analogy," by Justin Logan, American Prospect.com, November 6, 2007

"Is There a Proliferation 'Hysteria'?," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), October 9, 2007

"Once More into the Breach," by Justin Logan, American Conservative, September 24, 2007

"Don't Get Fooled Again," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest (Online), September 17, 2007

"Inside Track: Being Right Matters," by Justin Logan, National Interest, August 7, 2007

"How I Learned to Stop Worrying...," by Justin Logan, American Conservative, July 30, 2007

"A Dangerous Position on Darfur," by Ted Galen Carpenter and Christopher Preble, Cato.org, July 27, 2007

"Talk to Iran; It's Working with N. Korea," by Ted Galen Carpenter, OCRegister.com, July 25, 2007

"Pax Americana or Primus Inter Pares?," by Leon T. Hadar, Globalist, July 13, 2007

"Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon?," by Edward H. Crane, Financial Times, July 11, 2007

"Bargaining with Tehran," by Christopher Preble, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 24, 2007

"Barack Obama's American Exceptionalism," by Christopher Preble, Globalist, May 25, 2007

"Withdrawing to Kurdistan Is No Withdrawal," by Ted Galen Carpenter, The Baltimore Sun, May 15, 2007

"Better Questions for Presidential Candidates," by Justin Logan, The Standard Times, April 29, 2007

"A US-China Arms Race on the Final Frontier," by Malou Innocent, Asia Times Online, March 28, 2007

"The Military We Need," by Ben Cohen and Christopher Preble, Chicago Sun-Times, March 3, 2007

"Don't Start Another War," by William A. Niskanen, Sacramento Bee, February 23, 2007

"U.S. Needs to Stop Iraq Problem From Spreading to Region," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Chicago Sun-Times, February 10, 2007

"Baker-Hamilton Can't Save Us," by Justin Logan, McClatchy News Service, December 4, 2006

"How Security Problems Can Undermine Economic Progress," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Times of India, November 29, 2006

"Keep a Cool Head," by Ted Galen Carpenter, The Baltimore Sun, September 20, 2006

"Bringing Down Kim," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, September 4, 2006

"A Plea for Normalcy," by Christopher Preble, National Interest, September 1, 2006

"Washington's Masochistic Policy in Iraq," by Ted Galen Carpenter, San Francisco Chronicle, August 8, 2006

"It’s a Local Battle, Not WWIII," by Leon T. Hadar, Cato.org, July 21, 2006

"Rosett Column on North Korea Reckless and Illogical," by Ted Galen Carpenter, USA Today, July 14, 2006

"A Nuisance, Not a Threat," by Ted Galen Carpenter, The Baltimore Sun, July 10, 2006

"Who Gave Us the World?," by Justin Logan and Christopher Preble, National Review (Online), June 26, 2006

"U.S. Snub Is Wrong Response," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, May 29, 2006

"The “Isolationism” Canard," by Justin Logan, Cato.org, February 9, 2006

"NATO Insists on Poking Russian Bear," by Justin Logan and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, January 19, 2006

"Ottawa's Backward Anti-Americanism," by Patrick Basham, Washington Times, December 30, 2005

"Torture's Long Shadow," by Vladimir Bukovsky, Washington Post, December 18, 2005

"Gift from Canada?," by Patrick Basham, Washington Times, December 2, 2005

"Spreading Capitalism Is Good for Peace," by Doug Bandow, Korea Herald, November 10, 2005

"Bush Misreads History," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, September 29, 2005

"You and What Army?," by Christopher Preble, American Spectator (Online), June 14, 2005

"Resisting the Charms of War," by Christopher Preble, National Interest, June 1, 2005

"Rethinking Non-Proliferation," by Ted Galen Carpenter and Charles V. Peña, National Interest, June 1, 2005

"Alliances and Counter-alliances in Asia," by Stanley Kober, Fox News (Online), April 17, 2005

"Using Our Military for Others' Interests," by Doug Bandow, Cato.org, January 27, 2005

"It's Our Call," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, January 26, 2005

"Kennedy Would Not Pay Any Price, Neither Should Bush," by Christopher Preble, Daily News, January 22, 2005

"An Ominous U.S. Model," by Jonathan Clarke, Los Angeles Times, September 22, 2004

"What Napoleon and Bismarck Teach Us About Preventive War," by Stanley Kober, Cato.org, September 18, 2004

"Iran: Isolation or Engagement?," by Charles V. Peña, Cato.org, August 22, 2004

"U.S. Planning Long Stay in Iraq," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Chicago Sun-Times, May 28, 2004

""Empire" -- A Losing Political Issue," by Christopher Preble, The Red and Black, April 20, 2004

"How Do We Win?," by Stanley Kober, Cato.org, April 19, 2004

"Bush Needs to Hear, Not Shun, World Critics," by Stanley Kober, Chicago Sun-Times, March 31, 2004

"Haiti's Requiem for Nation-Building," by Doug Bandow, National Review (Online), March 1, 2004

"Rolling Democratic Dice in Iraq," by Patrick Basham, Insight, December 22, 2003

"Good Riddance, Mugabe," by Marian L. Tupy, Cato.org, December 10, 2003

"Bush's North Korea Gambit," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Fox News (Online), October 24, 2003

"Bush Must Find Exit Strategy from Iraq," by Doug Bandow, Australian Financial Review, October 1, 2003

"Acid Test for North Korea," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Washington Times, September 22, 2003

"Today's Conservatives Support Government Managing Other Countries," by Leon T. Hadar, St. Paul Pioneer Press, September 14, 2003

"An Empire is Not Needed to Fight the War on Terror at Home or Abroad," by Christopher Preble, Cato.org, September 7, 2003

"War on Terror Does Not Require a War Machine," by William A. Niskanen, Financial Times, August 21, 2003

"Supremacy Is America's Weakness," by Christopher Layne, Financial Times, August 13, 2003

"Overestimating China's Willingness to Pressure North Korea," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest, August 6, 2003

"The International Drug War's Illusory Victories," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, July 20, 2003

"National Interest Alone," by Christopher Preble, National Review, July 10, 2003

"U.S. Empire? Let's Get Real," by Leon T. Hadar, Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2003

"Regime Change Revisited," by Steve H. Hanke, The Baltimore Sun, June 25, 2003

"Troops in Saudi Arabia Are Superfluous and Dangerous," by Christopher Preble, Asia Times, April 25, 2003

"N. Korea Is No Place to Apply Iraq 'Lessons'," by Doug Bandow, Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2003

"A Democratic Iraq May Not Be Friendly to U.S.," by Christopher Preble, Knight-Ridder, April 9, 2003

"The Realignment of the World," by Stanley Kober, South China Morning Post, April 3, 2003

"Pro-War Camp Can't Make the Case That an Attack Is in National Interest," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, February 2, 2003

"Parting Company With Ungrateful Allies," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato.org, January 19, 2003

"Logical Conclusions: North Korea, Iran, and unintended consequences," by Ted Galen Carpenter, National Review (Online), January 14, 2003

"Forcing Foes Into a Nuclear Corner," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2003

"Forcing Foes Into a Nuclear Corner," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2003

"The Economics of War," by Alan Reynolds, Creators Syndicate, November 21, 2002

"Murder Most Foul: To stop genocide, the U.S. must learn to intervene more carefully.," by Charles V. Peña, Reason (Online), November 6, 2002

"NATO Expansion Hurts U.S. Security," by Doug Bandow, Japan Times, June 3, 2002

"U.S. Can't Do the Impossible," by Ted Galen Carpenter, USA Today, April 18, 2002

"The Road to War," by Charles V. Peña, OpenDemocracy.net, January 30, 2001

"International Silent Treatment," by Doug Bandow, Washington Times, May 18, 2000

"Clinton Stepped Beyond Constitutional Limits," by Doug Bandow, Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1999

"The Cost Of Confusion In Our Foreign Policy," by Jonathan Clarke, Los Angeles Times, September 17, 1998

"Crackpot Theology Makes Bad Foreign Policy," by Doug Bandow, Copley News Service, June 4, 2002



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