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Precision Lethality and Civilian Harm Mitigation: Challenges and Opportunities in the Future of Warfighting

Foreign Policy Essay

Dangers of Deploying the Military on U.S. Soil

The Foreign Policy Essay: The Trouble With Nation-Building

Dov Zakheim

Jul 20, 2014

Editor's Note: As Iraq collapses into yet another bloody civil war and chaos sweeps across the Middle East, Americans are once again hearing calls for rebuilding the institutions and societies of the Mid...
"Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War," by Robert M. Gates

Book Review Editor

Jul 18, 2014

Published by Knopf (2014) Reviewed by Charlie Dunlap
The Foreign Policy Essay: Your Enemy Has a Name—How the “Al Qaeda” Label is Leading U.S Policy Astray

Jeremy Shapiro

Jul 13, 2014

Editor's Note: The United States has been at war since 9/11, but the nature of the enemy remains unclear. Some would say the war is against terrorists of all stripes, while others focus more narrowly on ...