Military analysis.

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• We Finally Have a Strategy for Afghanistan Unfortunately, that may not be enough.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 23, 2008
  
• What Obama Could Learn From America's Greatest Unknown Nuclear Strategist Get out of the hothouse from time to time.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 16, 2008
  
• Gates' Plan To Fix the Pentagon The now-and-future defense secretary's two critical ideas for reforming the military.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 5, 2008
  
• The Enforcer Obama's most important national-security pick isn't Hillary—it's Gen. Jim Jones.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 2, 2008
  
• Staying On Keeping Robert Gates as secretary of defense is a great idea.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 26, 2008
  
• Beware Rumsfeld's Snow Job The former defense secretary's revisionist op-ed.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 25, 2008
  
• Serious People A guide to Obama's national-security transition team.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 21, 2008
  
• Can We Really Negotiate With the Taliban? We must reach out to willing factions. But first they must believe we can win.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 17, 2008
  
• War Never Ends Getting to know the men of Whiskey Six—and the loved ones they left behind.
  Phil Zabriskie Nov. 11, 2008
  
• Five Silver Linings In spite of the obvious challenges, Obama will enter the White House with some paths to success staked out.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 10, 2008
  
• A Foreign-Policy Repair Manual Six priorities for President Obama.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 5, 2008
  
• High Risk, Limited Payoff In Syria, a dangerous new escalation of the war on terror.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 30, 2008
  
• This Is Not a Test Sitting on an aircraft-carrier deck in 1962 didn't prepare John McCain for the presidency.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 23, 2008
  
• Who Cares How Colin Powell Is Voting? Quite a few people, actually.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 20, 2008
  
• The Afghanistan Test Petraeus' and NATO's new strategy is much closer to Obama's than McCain's.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 16, 2008
  
• Is Petraeus "Beyond Naive"? He thinks we should negotiate with our enemies—just like Obama.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 10, 2008
  
• Obama Won the Foreign-Policy Questions McCain was vague and contradicted himself during the debate.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 8, 2008
  
• She Still Knows Nothing Palin proved that she can speak in complete sentences, but not that she understands anything about foreign policy.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 3, 2008
  
• Obama Wins on Foreign Policy He stood up to McCain, and he had a more realistic vision of the world.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 27, 2008
  
• Afghanistan Isn't Like Iraq Why a "surge" won't work there.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 19, 2008
  
• The Sorrow and the Pity When it comes to foreign policy, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she's talking about.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 12, 2008
  
• They've Got To Be Kidding How can smart people say such dumb things about Sarah Palin?
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 4, 2008
  
• Loud Voice, Tiny Stick Trying to make sense of Condoleezza Rice's latest statement.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 20, 2008
  
• Lonely Night in Georgia The Bush administration's feckless response to the Russian invasion.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 11, 2008
  
• Annual General Meeting Finally, the Army is promoting the right officers.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 4, 2008
  
• How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy? Not as much as he'd like you to think.
  Fred Kaplan July 23, 2008
  
• Grading the Candidates' War Speeches Obama's was flawed; McCain's is a bit of a fantasy.
  Fred Kaplan July 16, 2008
  
• Obama Gets Help From Iraq's Prime Minister And from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Fred Kaplan July 10, 2008
  
• The Grunt vs. the Flyboy The real reason for Wesley Clark's ill-advised comments about John McCain's military record.
  Fred Kaplan July 1, 2008
  
• Better Than Nothing Decoding North Korea's latest moves.
  Fred Kaplan June 27, 2008
  
• The Taliban Are Back. What Now? The long road to fixing Afghanistan winds through Pakistan.
  Fred Kaplan June 17, 2008
  
• Listening to Dissent How should a president handle uncertainties or disputes on intelligence?
  Fred Kaplan June 10, 2008
  
• Is Barack Obama Too Naive To Be President? Not in the post-Cold War world.
  Fred Kaplan June 4, 2008
  
• Worse Than Bush When it comes to foreign policy, McCain is more of a neocon than the president.
  Fred Kaplan May 28, 2008
  
• Blurred Vision Bush's blundering brand of "diplomacy."
  Fred Kaplan May 16, 2008
  
• Prison Break Maybe the Army's not so hidebound after all.
  Fred Kaplan May 8, 2008
  
• The Army's Math Problem We don't have any more soldiers to send to Afghanistan unless we take some out of Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan May 5, 2008
  
• Revolving Doors What the shifting of generals bodes for Afghanistan and Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan April 24, 2008
  
• Gates Celebrates Dissent The generals quash it.
  Fred Kaplan April 23, 2008
  
• Shot by Both Sides Iran is outsmarting us in Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan April 22, 2008
  
• I Don't Know. Go Ask Petraeus. McCain's appalling answer to a question about national-security policy.
  Fred Kaplan April 16, 2008
  
• Bush's Double Talk on Iraq A close reading of the president's latest speech.
  Fred Kaplan April 10, 2008
  
• Stonewall Petraeus Testifying before the Senate, the general sticks to the script.
  Fred Kaplan April 8, 2008
  
• Bush Bungles in Basra and Bucharest The president's latest gaffes.
  Fred Kaplan April 3, 2008
  
• Warlord vs. Warlord What are they fighting about in Basra?
  Fred Kaplan March 27, 2008
  
• What Does Bush Mean by "Victory in Iraq"? His grandiose definition makes defeat almost inevitable.
  Fred Kaplan March 25, 2008
  
• Five Years Gone What, exactly, has the Iraq war achieved? A lot? A little something? Nothing at all?
  Fred Kaplan March 18, 2008
  
• Afghanistan Envy Bush's romantic notions about serving on the front lines.
  Fred Kaplan March 14, 2008
  
• "Fox" Fallon Wasn't Hounded Out The Centcom commander brought about his own ouster.
  Fred Kaplan March 12, 2008
  
• Where Are This War's Winter Soldiers? Why Iraq war veterans have not had much impact on the debate over the war.
  Ronald R. Krebs March 7, 2008
  
• Welcome to the Quagmire The next president may be stuck with more problems in Iraq than Bush ever faced.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 29, 2008
  
• Shooting Down the Hype The satellite takedown doesn't prove anything about our missile-defense capability.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 22, 2008
  
• This Is Not an Emergency Supplemental war funds are a backdoor way to boost the defense budget.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 20, 2008
  
• The Bonus Army The creeping monetization of military service.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 18, 2008
  
• China Canard The Air Force doesn't need any more F-22s.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 14, 2008
  
• Flawed by Design Gates and Rice shouldn't be angry, or surprised, at NATO's failure in Afghanistan.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 8, 2008
  
• What's Really in the U.S. Military Budget? Much more than the oft-cited $515.4 billion.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 4, 2008
  
• Daydream Believers How can the United States regain its influence while retaining its moral values?
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 3, 2008
  
• The Man Who Learned Too Little In his final State of the Union, Bush makes more empty promises.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 29, 2008
  
• Dumb and Dumber The U.S. Army lowers recruitment standards … again.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 24, 2008
  
• An Officer and a Family Man Why is the Army losing so many talented midlevel officers?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 16, 2008
  
• Artificial Intelligence President Bush's cavalier dismissal of the NIE undermines our credibility, again.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 14, 2008
  
• What Happened in the Strait of Hormuz? How to prevent a naval war with Iran.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 10, 2008
  
• Deadly Diyala The war in Iraq grinds on.
  Phillip Carter Jan. 10, 2008