War and National Security

The Sound of Terror

The phenomenology of a drone strike.

  • Nasser Hussain

Defrosting the Cold War with Iran

What will it take to revive U.S.-Iran relations?

  • Akbar Ganji

Syria’s Red Line

The chemical weapons ban should have been made universal years ago.

  • Jeanne Guillemin

Bosnia and Syria: Intervention Then and Now

When state order collapses, every confessional or ethnic group asks one question: Who will protect us now?

  • Michael Ignatieff

Empire’s Wasteland

The cause of Camus’s native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.

  • Vivian Gornick

Oversight Lite

If we already know the government violated the law, the fact that its actions were subject to oversight does not excuse the violation.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

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The Cost of Our Drone War in Pakistan

An interview with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed.

  • Wajahat Ali

War Without Strategy

The United States relies on drones to make up for its lack of coherent policy in the war on terrorism.

  • Jonathan Hafetz

Who Says the NSA’s Metadata Collection Is Legal?

On the limitations of secret judicial review.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

A Costly Defense

Sequestration won’t gut the military

  • Cindy Williams

Rethinking the War on Terror

President Obama’s speech on counterterrorism strategy fell short on substance.

  • Elizabeth Goitein
  • Faiza Patel

Martial Flaw

Why Tsarnaev is not an enemy combatant.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

The Price of Vengeance

Settling the Cinematic Torture Debate

  • Alan A. Stone

The Checkpoint

On patrolling West Bank checkpoints as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.

  • Oded Na’aman

War Is Betrayal, Redux

Any story of war is a story of elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal, the poor.

  • Chris Hedges
with responses from
  • Roy Scranton
  • Chris Lombardi
  • Phillip Carter
  • William Treseder
  • Joyce S. Goldberg

Fighting over the Same Ground

An Interview with Rajiv Chandrasekaran

  • David V. Johnson

Our Men in Honduras

Losing Control of the War on Drugs

  • Lauren Carasik

New Model Army

The Liberian army embarks on its first combat mission since the end of the country’s brutal civil war.

  • Clair MacDougall

Unchecked and Unbalanced

Taking Issue with Jack Goldsmith

  • Elizabeth Goitein

Juárez Rebounds . . . Sort of

From 2008 until 2011, Juárez was among the world’s most violent cities.

  • Sarah Hill

War Is Betrayal

Persistent Myths of Combat

  • Chris Hedges

What Would Augustine Do?

The President, Drones, and Just War Theory

  • David Luban

After the Slaughter

Have recent events in Afghanistan brought the war to a critical turning point? For U.S. troops stationed there, little has changed.

  • Matt Gallagher

Plague of Locusts

Our Failure to Regulate Drone Warfare

  • Richard Falk
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