Military analysis.

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• The Urge to Surge The latest bad idea for Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 20, 2006
  
• What About the Grunts? The Iraq Study Group talked to generals when it should have talked to corporals.
  Phillip Carter Dec. 7, 2006
  
• So Much for Plan B The Iraq Study Group chickens out.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 6, 2006
  
• Enter the Grown-Up Robert Gates' impressive—and reassuring—confirmation hearings.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 5, 2006
  
• Things Fall Apart What do we do if Maliki's government falls? Here are three options.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 30, 2006
  
• Whatever Happened to Statecraft? Events in Iraq, Lebanon, and Asia highlight Bush's shortcomings as a leader.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 27, 2006
  
• After Rumsfeld What Robert Gates can achieve in the next two years.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 14, 2006
  
• A Catalog of Failure Rumsfeld's biggest blunders and how they've harmed America.
  Phillip Carter Nov. 8, 2006
  
• The Analyst Cometh Why Robert Gates is the best man for Rummy's job.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 8, 2006
  
• Rip It Up and Start Again How the Saddam verdict will inflame the insurgency.
  Phillip Carter Nov. 6, 2006
  
• Army Times: Rummy Must Go Decoding an astonishing editorial.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 6, 2006
  
• Hillary Clinton's Small Ideas In the Bush era, clichés represent much-needed wisdom.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 31, 2006
  
• Number Crunching Taking another look at the Lancet's Iraq study.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 20, 2006
  
• The Thin Green Line What the latest violence reveals about the failed U.S. strategy in Iraq.
  Phillip Carter Oct. 18, 2006
  
• The Slime Talk Express McCain is dead wrong about Bill Clinton and North Korea.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 11, 2006
  
• North Korea Tested an Atom Bomb; Now What? Four potential scenarios—all bad.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 9, 2006
  
• Kim Jong-il and His Quest for the Magical Atom Bomb Will we go to war with North Korea?
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 6, 2006
  
• How Bush Wrecked the Army Another general revolts.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 25, 2006
  
• U.N.-Diplomatic Bush goes to Turtle Bay—and says nothing.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 19, 2006
  
• Mind Games Are we going to attack Iran?
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 18, 2006
  
• Let's Make a Deal It's time to talk to Syria.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 15, 2006
  
• Won't Deploy? Can't Deploy. There are no more troops to send to Iraq.
  Daniel Benjamin Sept. 14, 2006
  
• Calling Iran's Bluff A history lesson for the Bush administration.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 11, 2006
  
• The Long Intelligence Haul Real reform doesn't take five years. It takes a generation.
  Patrick Radden Keefe Sept. 8, 2006
  
• The 5-Percent Solution One proposal for solving the Iranian dilemma.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 5, 2006
  
• Bush Goes a Bridge Too Far The president's latest dumb speech.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 31, 2006
  
• Rumsfeld's Four Questions The secretary's ghastly speech to the American Legion.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 30, 2006
  
• What a Moronic Presidential Press Conference! It's clear Bush doesn't understand Iraq, or Lebanon, or Gaza, or …
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 22, 2006
  
• Written To Fail Why the U.N.'s Lebanon resolution is already collapsing.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 21, 2006
  
• The Money Pit Can the Pentagon pay for the war and its new toys?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 16, 2006
  
• You Say You Want a Resolution Can the United Nations pass the test it has set for itself?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 14, 2006
  
• Looking for Intel in All the Wrong Places What Washington can learn from Britain's foiled terror plot.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 10, 2006
  
• Yes, Condi, You're a Student of History But that doesn't let you off the hook.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 9, 2006
  
• Worst Press Conference Ever Does President Bush understand his own foreign policy?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 8, 2006
  
• The Prince of the Marshes Out in the field.
  Rory Stewart July 31, 2006
  
• Rice's Fallacy What if Israel can't win militarily?
  Gareth Evans July 28, 2006
  
• Charade John Bolton's excruciating confirmation hearing.
  Fred Kaplan July 27, 2006
  
• Italy's Watergate Espionage, secrecy, and corruption: Lessons for the Bush administration.
  Patrick Radden Keefe July 27, 2006
  
• False Consciousness About Iraq Did the White House write Maliki's speech to Congress?
  Fred Kaplan July 26, 2006
  
• There Are Worse Things Than the Status Quo Condi's witless optimism about the Middle East.
  Fred Kaplan July 24, 2006
  
• Hail, Cedar A solution that could end the conflict and save the Lebanese government.
  Fred Kaplan July 20, 2006
  
• What Is Hezbollah Up To? Maybe time really is on their side.
  Fred Kaplan July 19, 2006
  
• What's Next for Israel? And where's the Arab outrage?
  Fred Kaplan July 18, 2006
  
• Get Condi on a Plane It's time for Bush to stop posturing and start talking.
  Fred Kaplan July 17, 2006
  
• Reality Bites Is the Bush administration capable of facing the world's problems, much less solving them?
  Fred Kaplan July 13, 2006
  
• New Doctrine Same as the Old Doctrine Reports of the death of "cowboy democracy" are greatly exaggerated.
  Fred Kaplan July 11, 2006
  
• Counterinsurgency by the Book The lessons of a new Army Field Manual.
  Fred Kaplan July 8, 2006
  
• Kim's Catastrophe Three cheers for the North Korean missile test!
  Fred Kaplan July 5, 2006
  
• Condi Artist Watching the secretary dissemble in Afghanistan.
  Fred Kaplan June 29, 2006
  
• Washington's Latest Missile-Defense Blunder Let's hope North Korea backs down soon.
  Michael A. Levi June 28, 2006
  
• It's Time To Talk to Pyongyang Does North Korea want to launch a missile or start a conversation?
  Fred Kaplan June 26, 2006
  
• Can Freedom and Opium Coexist? Winning Afghan hearts and minds one poppy farmer at a time.
  Fred Kaplan June 21, 2006
  
• Knitting Together an Afghan Strategy NATO tests the "ink-spot theory."
  Fred Kaplan June 20, 2006
  
• A Window of Opportunity What happens now that Zarqawi's dead?
  Fred Kaplan June 8, 2006
  
• Who's on Deck? What Zarqawi's death means for the insurgency.
  Daniel Byman June 8, 2006
  
• Listen to Indonesia, Rummy! What a bizarre overseas encounter reveals about American foreign policy.
  Fred Kaplan June 7, 2006
  
• Never Coming Home What it's like to lose a son in the Iraq war.
  Andrew Lichtenstein June 5, 2006
  
• Diplomatic Overtures What the latest U.S. and Iranian statements really mean.
  Fred Kaplan May 31, 2006
  
• Advice and Dissent U.S. pols need to get real about Iraq's problems.
  Fred Kaplan May 30, 2006
  
• The China Syndrome Why the Pentagon keeps overestimating Beijing's military strength.
  Fred Kaplan May 26, 2006
  
• Whose Missile Shield Is It, Anyway? Now we're talking about putting expensive, useless interceptors in Europe.
  Fred Kaplan May 23, 2006
  
• Déjà Nuke Can we make a deal with Tehran like the one we made with Pyongyang?
  Fred Kaplan May 17, 2006
  
• The Right Kind of Paranoia How the NSA could fix its data-mining program.
  Fred Kaplan May 12, 2006
  
• Dear Mahmoud How Bush should respond to the Iranian president's letter.
  Fred Kaplan May 10, 2006
  
• General Knowledge The battle over the Hayden nomination.
  Fred Kaplan May 8, 2006
  
• Candid Camera The trouble with releasing Zarqawi's outtakes.
  Fred Kaplan May 5, 2006
  
• Decoding the McCaffrey Memo If this is the cost of victory in Iraq, is America willing to pay it?
  Fred Kaplan May 3, 2006
  
• Barnes & Noble Goes to Baghdad A brilliant plan to send American books to the Middle East.
  Fred Kaplan April 28, 2006
  
• Could Rumsfeld Court-Martial the Retired Generals? Surprisingly, yes.
  Fred Kaplan April 26, 2006
  
• Defending Rumsfeld From the Generals But just a teeny little bit.
  Fred Kaplan April 21, 2006
  
• You Wanna Talk? Let's Talk The case for negotiating with Iran.
  Fred Kaplan April 17, 2006
  
• The Revolt Against Rumsfeld The officer corps is getting restless.
  Fred Kaplan April 12, 2006
  
• Are We Really Going To Nuke Iran? Decoding our options.
  Fred Kaplan April 10, 2006
  
• A Global Game of Chicken Can Washington and Tehran avoid war?
  Fred Kaplan April 7, 2006
  
• Real Vague The Democrats' national-security plan is bland and banal—but the Republicans' is worse.
  Fred Kaplan April 3, 2006
  
• If Only … The lessons of our Iraqi bungles.
  Fred Kaplan March 20, 2006
  
• The War in Iraq A roundup of Slate coverage.
  March 20, 2006
  
• Spies Like Us Listening to leakers could land you in jail.
  Fred Kaplan March 17, 2006
  
• Daydream Believers Are the folks behind America's national security strategy delusional?
  Fred Kaplan March 16, 2006
  
• Mystery Solved So, that's what was going on in Powell's intercepts.
  Fred Kaplan March 13, 2006
  
• Rumsfeld's Free Pass on Iraq Senators didn't ask, weren't told.
  Fred Kaplan March 9, 2006
  
• India Giver Why was Bush so generous in New Delhi?
  Fred Kaplan March 6, 2006
  
• Yes, We Should Worry About Iran Do we really want to relive the Cold War nuclear nightmare?
  Fred Kaplan March 3, 2006
  
• The President's Indian Fantasy The rash nukes pledge is typical of Bush's strategic shortsightedness.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 28, 2006
  
• Secret Again The absurd scheme to reclassify documents.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 24, 2006
  
• Condi's Baffling New Iran Strategy It's guaranteed to hurt the people we want most to help.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 21, 2006
  
• You're a Spy If the Bush administration's interpretation of espionage law is upheld, then everyone is breaking the law, all the time.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 15, 2006
  
• Western Targets The Iraqi insurgency is still primarily an anti-occupation effort.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 9, 2006
  
• Defense Budget 101 How much are we really spending?
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 7, 2006
  
• Rumsfeld Surrenders The QDR dashes his dreams of military transformation.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 3, 2006
  
• The Cut-and-Paste State of the Union On foreign affairs, the speech was full of anachronisms and meaningless spin.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 1, 2006
  
• Readers, You Murdered Them So, that's how you'd respond to a nuclear Iran.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 27, 2006
  
• What "Peace Epidemic"? Don't pop the champagne corks just yet, the evidence isn't quite there.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 25, 2006
  
• How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ahmadinejad? Reader, do you have a solution to the Iranian nukes dilemma?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 20, 2006
  
• Is Rumsfeld Bored or Tired? His latest, sad plan to transform the military.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 12, 2006
  
• GI Schmo How low can Army recruiters go?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 9, 2006
  
• Hog Heaven Don't be fooled—the homeland security budget is still packed with pork.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 4, 2006