Forces allied to the former Gadhafi regime could still threaten a fragile new government using guerilla and terrorist tactics. It would be a mistake to underestimate his tenacity or to dismiss the warning of his son Seif that "We will fight to our very last man, woman, and bullet."

This fascinating book chronicles the guerilla war and reconstruction efforts to build a new and very different Iraq.

Samir Khan was not "collateral damage." He was a sworn member of al-Qaeda who trained terrorists to kill his fellow Americans. And it is appalling that a representative of the US government he sought to destroy--whose citizens he wanted to "mow down" like grass--would offer "condolences" for his death.

Who is representing the United States in today's tough fights in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere? What are their backgrounds? What motivates them? How exactly are they conducting themselves? Pulitzer-winning New York Times writer Chris Hedges says members of the U.S. armed forces are mostly "poor kids from Mississippi or Alabama...

Look to Colombia, where the U.S. helped the government in Bogota achieve success short of complete victory.

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez is working relentlessly to find new markets for his oil so he can leave the United States high and dry, but America should send the message that when Chávez threatens to cut off oil to the United States, he is playing Russian roulette with Venezuela's future.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea returns to the fore, and this time, it may well become ratified.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as the DPRK, and North Korea) is a special case in the annals of modern economic development, and not a good one: for it is an economy that once achieved a relatively advanced level of modernization, but then proceeded into prolonged, even catastrophic decline.