Military analysis.

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• Appeasement, Please        The case for paying North Korea's nuclear blackmail.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 31, 2002
  
• Bombs Away Bush's indefensible missile-defense plan.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 18, 2002
  
• Drop Dead Date When Saddam lies, will the bombs fly?
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 6, 2002
  
• Air Fright Why Nov. 28 will prove scarier in the long run for airline passengers than Sept. 11.
  James Fallows Dec. 1, 2002
  
• Can This Department Be Saved? How to secure homeland security.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 22, 2002
  
• Osama's Alive! Does it matter?
  Michael O'Hanlon Nov. 20, 2002
  
• Star Wars Spending Spree Billions for Missile Defense, peanuts for anti-terrorism.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 7, 2002
  
• The Rumsfeld Intelligence Agency How the hawks plan to find a Saddam/al-Qaida connection.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 28, 2002
  
• North Korea Is No Iraq A peaceful solution to our nuclear standoff with Pyongyang.
  Michael O'Hanlon Oct. 21, 2002
  
• How Smart Are Our Smart Bombs? They're better than ever, but they still won't topple Saddam.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 17, 2002
  
• Counting Casualties How many people would die in an Iraqi War?
  Michael O'Hanlon Sept. 25, 2002
  
• Saddam's Bomb How close is Iraq to having a nuclear weapon?
  Michael O'Hanlon Sept. 18, 2002
  
• None Like It Hot Why we're not invading Iraq this summer.
  Scott Shuger June 13, 2002
  
• That Sinking Feeling What dope came up with those scuba warnings?
  Scott Shuger June 11, 2002
  
• Reinventing Counterterrorism More lessons from the 9/11 warnings scandal.
  Scott Shuger June 5, 2002
  
• FBI CYA The problem the Bureau still hasn't fixed.
  Scott Shuger May 30, 2002
  
• Outgunned What the Crusader cancellation really means to the Army.
  Scott Shuger May 23, 2002
  
• Failing Intelligence Why didn't the CIA warn Bush properly?
  Scott Shuger May 17, 2002
  
• Bullet Points What Donald Rumsfeld forgets about patriotism.
  Scott Shuger May 15, 2002
  
• Free To Tweeze The federal airline security folks get more grounded.
  Scott Shuger May 1, 2002
  
• Flights From Reality The government's dopey airplane carry-on bans.
  Scott Shuger April 26, 2002
  
• Write vs. Wrong What should a reporter do when he meets a terrorist?
  Scott Shuger April 24, 2002
  
• Automatics for the People Why do Palestinians have M-16s?
  Scott Shuger April 17, 2002
  
• Snap Misjudgment How the United States violated John Walker Lindh's rights.
  Scott Shuger April 16, 2002
  
• Easy, Mark A key conservative's wacky plan to increase defense spending.
  Scott Shuger April 10, 2002
  
• Generals' Apathy The Pentagon's appalling record on "friendly fire."
  Scott Shuger April 4, 2002
  
• Mountain Division of Labor Why it's OK to send in the Royal Marines.
  Scott Shuger April 1, 2002
  
• Hungry for Justice How to punish convicted terrorists.
  Scott Shuger March 29, 2002
  
• Bullet Points What the Fox network could teach the Pentagon, etc.
  Scott Shuger March 21, 2002
  
• Victory Lapse The Pentagon and the media's chronic mistake.
  Scott Shuger March 15, 2002
  
• Dull Drone Why unmanned U.S. aerial vehicles are a hazard to Afghan civilians.
  Eric Umansky March 13, 2002
  
• Mushroom Clouded Minds The press cheap-shots Bush's nuclear policy.
  Scott Shuger March 12, 2002
  
• Uniform Entertainment Loosening the Pentagon's hold on war scripts.
  Scott Shuger March 7, 2002
  
• Poisonal Foul Why did the Washington Post go soft on the Pentagon?
  Scott Shuger March 5, 2002
  
• Flyboys in the Ointment Does the Pentagon have the Right Stuff on drones?
  Scott Shuger Feb. 28, 2002
  
• The Artifice of War 
  Scott Shuger Feb. 22, 2002
  
• Off on a Terror How to be intellectually honest about terrorism.
  Scott Shuger Feb. 19, 2002
  
• Wire-Guided Government UPI breaks a big terror story—and maybe new ground.
  Scott Shuger Feb. 15, 2002
  
• Stop the Kabulsh*t What to do about rumors of Afghan civilian deaths.
  Scott Shuger Feb. 13, 2002
  
• The Few, the Proud, the Marins A top conservative is wrong about John Walker.
  Scott Shuger Feb. 5, 2002
  
• The Do's and Don'ts of War 
  Scott Shuger Jan. 29, 2002
  
• Props to Propaganda The case for lying about terrorists.
  Scott Shuger Jan. 26, 2002
  
• Arrogant Brown He doesn't report. He decides. You lose.
  Scott Shuger Jan. 23, 2002
  
• IGNORAD The military screw-up nobody talks about.
  Scott Shuger Jan. 16, 2002
  
• Crews Control Let's keep special ops special.
  Scott Shuger Jan. 10, 2002
  
• Background Smackdown Don't judge a war leader or his critics by their résumés.
  Scott Shuger Jan. 9, 2002
  
• Direct Hits and Misses What the Afghan war proves about weapons.
  Scott Shuger Jan. 4, 2002