A week ago, no visions of Pentagon strategy reviews were dancing in the heads of journalists, pundits or budget wonks. One well-placed New York Times article and one little announcement of a presidential stop-by later, and all eyes that can tear themselves away from the froth of New Hampshire will...

Tonight's GOP presidential foreign policy debate hit some new lows for accuracy and some surprising glimpses of nuance -- but lacked completely a larger sense of strategy or vision from the candidates. Major issues were virtually ignored -- China, defense strategy, nuclear weapons, the Arab Spring and Middle East Peace,...

This afternoon's new tranche of Wikileaks seems to add a numbing amount of new, awful detail to what we already knew about the Iraq war. They are a flood on top of a steady, if less headline-grabbing, drip from other sources: Salon's report that an originator of the...

The new START Treaty cutting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, set to be concluded later this month, enjoys broad, bipartisan support from national security experts in the US and from America's friends and allies around the world - but you'd never know that by reading the editorial pages of the...

Today John Boehner made the nonsensical claim that the Administration doesn't actually have a strategy for combating terrorism. Since one of the core elements of the Administration's strategy has been to go about the business of blocking violent extremists without giving them the gratification of talking about them in public...

Before this week was Afghanistan week, jobs summit week, and Tiger Woods week, it was arms control week. On Saturday, the existing 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty expires. The treaty matters because it limits the US and Russia to fewer than 6,000 strategic (long-range) nuclear warheads and 1,600 missiles and...

I'm getting a little exhausted with reading assessments of President Obama and his team's first year that feature ten white men (own it, National Journal), or six male "experts" including the writer, President Obama and John Bolton (that's you, Politico). Foreign Policy "wins" this sorry competition with...

Usually, there are lots of reasons for progressives not to love supplemental spending bills. And I won't argue that this one is perfect. But before you get too queasy, consider six ways that progressives in Congress and the man at 1600 Pennsylvania turned "more of the same" into "change." Perhaps...

At the 100-day mark, the Obama administration has many things on its plate and even more challenges ahead. With policy reviews and staffing incomplete and some choices not yet made, evaluations at this date are at best artificial -- yet the Obama administration has produced a remarkable body of early...