February and March were bad months for the Western presence in Afghanistan. First the accidental burning of the Quran and then a lone soldier’s massacre of Afghan civilians undercut U.S. efforts to win Afghan hearts and minds.

AEI has covered the Iraq conflict from start to finish, as well as the longer war in Afghanistan in the face of a looming 2014 deadline for Afghan security forces to take over.

On line registration for this event is closed. Walk in registrations will be accepted.The psychological toll of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom “could well be [our] generation’s Agent Orange syndrome,” one veterans’ advocacy group warns. A bill to increase federal spending on mental health treatment...

President Obama may believe that disarmament is a formula for peace, but in the Middle East--and especially Iran--policymakers see such unilateral concessions as encouragement to war.

The fight against terrorism is no closer to success today than it was a decade ago when, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, President George W. Bush declared a Global War on Terrorism.

Rubin reviews Natan Sharansky's The Case for Democracy.

Even if the trigger isn't enacted, I am concerned that guidance from the White House would direct cuts beyond what the Defense Department is prepared to absorb. It's time to focus our fiscal restraint on the driver of our debt, not the protector of our prosperity.

There's a lot that the United States can do when it comes to Pakistan, but none of it can be done quickly. Nor can it be done without facing, as Admiral Mike Mullen did at last, the truth about the Pakistani Army.