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A Former U.S. Army Interrogator on Why Torture Doesnt Work
The partisan carnival surrounding the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of CIA detention and interrogation is frustrating. That ...
The Zero Conundrum of Countering Threats
In terms of aircraft accidents, 2014 was the safest year on record for the U.S. Air Force. In the space ...
Dont Overhaul French Anti-terrorism
For the past two years, French experts on terrorism have felt anxious. They often emphasized: “The question is not whether ...
Should Intelligence Officers be Hunters or Gatherers?
Senior American leaders, from President Obama on down, and the U.S. intelligence community as a whole were caught flatfooted by ...
Time Makes Right Choice for Person of the Year, but ...
Time magazine recently awarded Person of the Year honors to “the Ebola Fighters.” Bravo…good choice. As I’ve written elsewhere, it is right to ...
War and Americas Compromisers in Chief
War is uncompromising. Despite modern attempts to predict it, understand it, quantify it, contain it, reduce it, and eliminate it, ...
Sitting Ducks: Move Carriers Out of the Gulf, into Mediterranean
My first missions to support an aircraft carrier in 1983 were flown in the Gulf of Oman in an EP-3 ...
Sitting Ducks: Move Carriers Out of the Gulf, into Mediterranean
My first missions to support an aircraft carrier in 1983 were flown in the Gulf of Oman in an EP-3 ...
Failure of State: They Fired the Wrong Guy
The firing of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense raises more questions than it answers. Is it correct to blame ...
The Case for Coalitions of the Unwilling
For months, it was believed that the patchwork of 40-plus countries recruited in the fight against ISIS looked weak and ...