For the first time in 20 years, Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq. For years the Saudis resisted U.S. entreaties to take this step, and the current relationship between these two most important Arab countries in the Gulf has not been warm, so the timing is curious and...

President George W. Bush has announced his new strategy to achieve victory in Iraq and has named a new team, led by General David Petraeus, to accomplish this mission. As part of this strategy, the president has called for a surge of American troops into Baghdad and the surrounding area...

The current administration plan foresees thousands of American civilians going into Iraq in 2012. Of the many problems with this plan, a few stand out. We have been hearing about "civilian surges" into Iraq and Afghanistan for years, yet the nondefense contributions to such surges have been limited, slow to arrive, and painful to maintain.

Recent advances in Iran’s nuclear weapons program show that events are moving extraordinarily swiftly, as Tehran nears the end of its decades-long quest to possess a lethal WMD capability.

It is tempting to imagine that greater use of Iraqi forces could reduce the number of U.S. troops needed in Iraq. The temptation must be resisted.

Since the fall of Baghdad, both supporters and opponents of the George W. Bush administration have asked what should and could come next in the terror war. In An End to Evil (Random House, December 2003), AEI fellows David Frum and Richard Perle lay out a plan for...

Frederick W. Kagan responds to media stories about the Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I).

According to observers, the surge in Iraq is working.