The defense budget cuts that will affect us most are the reductions in recruitment and retention spending for the Marine Corps and Army.

The murder of four Americans should call attention to the increasingly dire situation in Mogadishu, which exacerbates the piracy problem.

Operation Iraqi Freedom was but one campaign in what we have come to call "The Long War" in the Greater Middle East.

Should the United States pursue a counterterrorism or counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan?

Is Donald Rumsfeld to blame for the U.S.'s troubles in Iraq, or is there another culprit?

A review of Michael Gordon and Berndard Trainor's Cobra II and Tony Zinni's The Battle for Peace.

It has become conventional wisdom that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is both a visionary and decisive leader, but his decisions deserve greater scrutiny.

How can we know if we're succeding in Iraq? What are our information sources?