The Kamdesh attacks echo a similar siege with similar results about a year ago in the village of Wanat, which provoked multiple U.S. military investigations and has been the subject of several extended media reports.

A new bookfeatures the influential economists at the University of Chicago.

Southern African leaders must be made to believe that unless they enforce the election protocols agreed to by Robert Mugabe, the United States will withdraw support for the region.

The time for the "quiet diplomacy" of the West and South Africa has come and gone. Action is required in this outpost of tyranny.

For the U.S. to prevail in this game of chicken, it will have to accept two basic premises that it has shied away from thus far. First, that the Pakistani army is an adversary, if not an enemy. Second, that the U.S. can only win if the generals at army headquarters in Rawalpindi cease to believe that America will always blink first.

Zimbabwean life-expectancy has collapsed in the past five years, falling from over fifty-five years of age to under thirty-four. HIV is rampant, and food shortages are so severe that a rare protein deficiency disease is exploding. Conditions are especially bad in areas where opponents to the government reside and to...

To be taken seriously as a major power, India must show that it has influence over its own backyard.

An irregular feature for the irreverently inclined.