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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

"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 ...
The Foreign Policy Essay: Calculated Caliphate

Thomas Hegghammer

Jul 6, 2014

Editor’s Note: The conquest of Mosul and other cities in Iraq by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has alarmed the United States and its allies and electrified the Sunni jihadist community. On M...