Numbers Games: How Many Troops Are Needed for the "Surge"? by Frederick Kagan

The President's "surge" has had a remarkably short honeymoon. Here are the complaints of one of its intellectual architects, Fred Kagan at AEI. This is also available at http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.25473,filter.all/pub_detail.asp   Numbers...

President Bush Escalates the US War in Iraq by Adding 20,000 More American Tr...

President Bush Escalates the US War in Iraq by Adding 20,000 More American Troops, Full Speech Text

MILITARY ROLE IN U.S. EMBASSIES CREATES STRAINS, REPORT SAYS - MARK MAZZETTI

MILITARY ROLE IN U.S. EMBASSIES CREATES STRAINS, REPORT SAYS - MARK MAZZETTI (NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 20): Since the 2001 attacks, the Pentagon has ratcheted up its information campaigns to fill the vacuum left by the gutting of the State Department's 'public diplomacy'...

KNOWING THE ENEMY: CAN SOCIAL SCIENTISTS REDEFINE THE "WAR ON TERROR" - GEORG...

  KNOWING THE ENEMY: CAN SOCIAL SCIENTISTS REDEFINE THE "WAR ON TERROR" - GEORGE PACKER (NEW YORKER, DECEMBER 11): The choice of a high-level political operative (Karen Hughes) to run the government's global-outreach effort suggests that the Bush Administration sees...