Military analysis.

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• Smart Bombs, Dumb Targets Did overconfidence in precision targeting cause civilian deaths in Iraq?
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 16, 2003
  
• Fallen Giant What does Saddam's capture mean for Iraq?
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 14, 2003
  
• The Pentagon Plot Baker's trip isn't about debt, and the contracts directive isn't about money.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 12, 2003
  
• Building a Better Occupation The U.S. Army has made some smart moves in Iraq—and some blockheaded ones, too.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 8, 2003
  
• More Dinars, Please We've spent Saddam's stash, now let's have at Rummy's slush fund.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 2, 2003
  
• Low-Yield Nukes Why spend money on useless weapons?
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 21, 2003
  
• The Ramadi Experiment What do the Iraqi insurgents really want?
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 18, 2003
  
• Defending the General The New Yorker's unfair slam on Wes Clark and his role in the Kosovo war.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 14, 2003
  
• War Declared, Again We're not pulling out of Iraq, so it's logical that we're pushing in deeper.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 12, 2003
  
• Flightmare The Iraqi insurgents' surface-to-air missiles won't win the war, but they could wreak havoc on civilian aviation.
  Daniel Benjamin Nov. 8, 2003
  
• A Pentagon With No Papers The lost art of postwar planning.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 7, 2003
  
• Zbig Trouble for Bush Brzezinski proves you don't have to be a liberal to loathe administration policy.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 5, 2003
  
• Err War The Army buries its mistakes.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 31, 2003
  
• The Pyongyang Candidate Hwang Jang Yop is North Korea's Ahmad Chalabi.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 30, 2003
  
• Rumsfeld's Pentagon Papers His leaked memo is the most astonishing document of this war so far.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 23, 2003
  
• From Baghdad to Manila Another lousy analogy for the occupation of Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 21, 2003
  
• Iraq's Not Germany What a 60-year-old Allen Dulles speech can teach us about postwar reconstruction.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 17, 2003
  
• A Toothless Resolution Even if the Security Council approves the U.S. proposal, it won't change a thing in Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 15, 2003
  
• Rumsfeld's $9 Billion Slush Fund 
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 10, 2003
  
• The Iraq Sanctions Worked And other revelations from David Kay's report.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 7, 2003
  
• Is North Korea Bluffing? More nuke gamesmanship from Kim Jong-il.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 3, 2003
  
• Bush to World: Drop Dead! The president lays an egg at the U.N.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 23, 2003
  
• Can You Hear Me Now, Mr. Bremer? Our forces in Iraq can't even get decent cell phones.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 18, 2003
  
• Give Iraq to the U.N. (Sort Of) How to share power during the occupation.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 17, 2003
  
• The Military's Bloated Budget It hasn't been this big in 50 years. Here's how to trim the fat.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 12, 2003
  
• Bush's Many Miscalculations On Sept. 11, the president was handed a historic opportunity. He ignored it.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 9, 2003
  
• General Agreement Does the U.N. U-turn signal a comeback for Colin Powell?
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 4, 2003
  
• North Korea and Iran Want the Bomb Wouldn't you, too?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 29, 2003
  
• The Pyongyang Games Oh, the joy of haggling with North Korea.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 21, 2003
  
• How Kim Lost the Russians Is this the end of North Korea's diplomatic games?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 19, 2003
  
• The Al-Qaida Question Could terrorists cause such a massive blackout? Not likely.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 15, 2003
  
• Calling Out Colin What Powell got wrong in his U.N. briefing on Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 12, 2003
  
• Shooting Down Missile Defense Even the Pentagon admits the program is in trouble.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 7, 2003
  
• He Saw It Coming The former Bushie who knew Iraq would go to pot.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 5, 2003
  
• Pingponging Pyongyang At last, a sign President Bush wants to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 1, 2003
  
• Baker to Baghdad? Bush finally admits that the occupation is going badly.
  Fred Kaplan July 28, 2003
  
• How Not To Stop the Next 9/11 Congress' pointless plan for preventing terrorism.
  Fred Kaplan July 25, 2003
  
• The Know-Nothing Congress What the Senate doesn't want to learn about Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan July 23, 2003
  
• United Nations in Iraq The only way to save face in Baghdad.
  Fred Kaplan July 18, 2003
  
• Quest for Firepower How to stop North Korea's drive for nukes.
  Fred Kaplan July 14, 2003
  
• Coalition of the Anonymous Just which countries, exactly, are helping in Iraq?
  Fred Kaplan July 10, 2003
  
• The Air Force Academy's Show Trial The academy's new mascot should be the scapegoat.
  Dave Cullen July 9, 2003
  
• Blow-Back in Baghdad Rumsfeld's brilliant war plan has an ugly aftermath. Here's how to fix it.
  Fred Kaplan July 8, 2003
  
• Regime Change in North Korea? No, Kim's not going anywhere. But there is hope for resolving the crisis.
  Fred Kaplan July 2, 2003
  
• Jeeves Goes to War Why is the Pentagon sending soldiers to butler school?
  Tom Anderson July 2, 2003
  
• Was Bush Lying About WMD? Maybe not. Here's how they could've misread the evidence.
  Fred Kaplan June 27, 2003
  
• Delusions of Empire How is Paul Wolfowitz keeping a straight face these days?
  Fred Kaplan June 25, 2003
  
• The Pentagon's Laughable Weapons Test Fire missile. Miss target completely. Success!
  Fred Kaplan June 20, 2003
  
• Why Are We Still Fighting in Iraq? The military doesn't know how to end a war.
  Fred Kaplan June 17, 2003
  
• Rumsfeld's New Man The latest move to radically remake the Army.
  Fred Kaplan June 10, 2003
  
• Backing Off the DMZ Bush's (sort of) smart move in Korea.
  Fred Kaplan June 9, 2003
  
• Homeland Insecurity What are the feds doing about domestic terrorism? Not enough.
  Fred Kaplan June 6, 2003
  
• The End of History How e-mail is wrecking our national archive.
  Fred Kaplan June 4, 2003
  
• Salam Pax Is Real How do I know Baghdad's famous blogger exists? He worked for me.
  Peter Maass June 2, 2003
  
• Vanishing Agents Did Iraq really have weapons of mass destruction?
  Fred Kaplan May 30, 2003
  
• Bombing by Numbers The Iraqi air war wasn't as modern as it looked.
  Fred Kaplan May 27, 2003
  
• Build It and It Will Work The Bush administration's missile defense fantasy.
  Fred Kaplan May 22, 2003
  
• Smart Bribes Centcom's real secret weapon.
  Fred Kaplan May 20, 2003
  
• Rummy's New War The secretary of defense invades the Army.
  Fred Kaplan May 14, 2003
  
• Rumsfeld's Dr. Strangelove Keith Payne says 7,000 warheads aren't enough.
  Fred Kaplan May 12, 2003
  
• Rumsfeld's Man Why generals will fight the new secretary of the Army.
  Fred Kaplan May 6, 2003
  
• Plutonium Poker Is Bush's new North Korean policy shrewd or just plain stupid?
  Fred Kaplan May 5, 2003
  
• Bush's Army—or Bill's? Should Clinton share the credit for victory in Iraq?
  Fred Kaplan May 2, 2003
  
• How Much Stealth Is Too Much Stealth? Six ways to cut Bush's bloated defense budget.
  Fred Kaplan April 30, 2003
  
• The North Korean Solution What's so bad about Kim's latest offer?
  Fred Kaplan April 28, 2003
  
• Chop the Chopper The Army's Apache attack-helicopter had a bad war.
  Fred Kaplan April 23, 2003
  
• Blink Blink North Korean negotiations are now a bigger deal than Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan April 21, 2003
  
• Eight Questions About the War What we still don't know about Operation Iraqi Freedom.
  Fred Kaplan April 17, 2003
  
• Assad's Situation Syria's military machine may be hollow—but it isn't harmless.
  Fred Kaplan April 15, 2003
  
• Force Majeure What lies behind the military's victory in Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan April 10, 2003
  
• Toppled National styles of pulling down statues.
  Fred Kaplan April 9, 2003
  
• Eyes Over Baghdad Our secret street-fighting weapon.
  Fred Kaplan April 7, 2003
  
• The Final Days Signs and portents of Saddam's impending demise.
  Fred Kaplan April 3, 2003
  
• The Battle Plan for Baghdad? A secret Pentagon report sketches seven scenarios.
  David Corn April 3, 2003
  
• Where the Elite Meet Defeat Saddam's hugely overrated Republican Guard.
  Fred Kaplan April 2, 2003
  
• Breaking Protocols Saddam's suicide bombers aren't terrorists.
  Fred Kaplan April 1, 2003
  
• War-Gamed Why the Army shouldn't be so surprised by Saddam's moves.
  Fred Kaplan March 28, 2003
  
• Uncle Sam's Jihadists What's the U.S. military doing about radical Muslim soldiers? Not enough.
  Deanne Stillman March 27, 2003
  
• The Flaw in Shock and Awe Rumsfeld's theory of warfare isn't working, at least so far.
  Fred Kaplan March 27, 2003
  
• Are We Winning Yet? Speed bumps on the road to Baghdad.
  Fred Kaplan March 25, 2003
  
• Patriot Games The missile didn't really work in 1991. Is it working now?
  Fred Kaplan March 24, 2003
  
• Reality War The battle of Umm Qasr—live and in color.
  Fred Kaplan March 23, 2003
  
• Mind Games Are those Pentagon leaks the truth or "psy-ops"?
  Fred Kaplan March 21, 2003
  
• The Enemy of My Enemy of My Enemy Is My What? What to do about the Iranian terrorist group that is helping Saddam, and helping us.
  Michael Crowley March 21, 2003
  
• Scud Lite Why is Saddam firing second-rate missiles at Kuwait?
  Fred Kaplan March 21, 2003
  
• Head-Job How we might be knocking Saddam off balance.
  Fred Kaplan March 20, 2003
  
• Updated: How To Tell If We're Winning in Iraq A score card for the first few days.
  Fred Kaplan March 18, 2003
  
• The Slate Field Guide to Iraq Pundits 
  David Plotz March 14, 2003
  
• Da Bomb Meet the Air Force's "palace buster."
  Fred Kaplan March 13, 2003
  
• Compromising Positions How the Security Council could postpone war.
  Fred Kaplan March 11, 2003
  
• Resolution Dissolution How the U.S. and France botched U.N. Resolution 1441.
  Fred Kaplan March 6, 2003
  
• Bully Bush The president is botching the Iraq crisis with his clumsy, naive unilateralism.
  Fred Kaplan March 5, 2003
  
• JDAM the Torpedoes The weapons and tactics we will use in Iraq.
  Gregg Easterbrook March 5, 2003
  
• Give Saddam Two More Weeks A good idea from the Canadians.
  Fred Kaplan March 1, 2003
  
• How Many Dead Iraqis? Guessing about collateral damage.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 25, 2003
  
• Shoot-Down The Pentagon trashes Bush's missile defense plans.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 21, 2003
  
• More Missile-Defense Madness Bush's latest ploy for a system we don't even need.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 20, 2003
  
• Stalemate The U.N. fails its latest test on Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 15, 2003
  
• Talking Turkey Belgium isn't sabotaging NATO. Rumsfeld is.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 10, 2003
  
• Smoking Gun Colin Powell delivers the goods on Saddam.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 5, 2003
  
• Crossing the Red Line The Bush administration fiddles while North Korea goes nuclear.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 3, 2003
  
• The Goods on Saddam The problem with showing our Iraq evidence at the U.N.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 31, 2003
  
• Into the Breach The U.N. says Saddam flunked his test. Does that mean we go to war?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 27, 2003
  
• Habeas Iraqus Do we have the goods on Saddam?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 24, 2003
  
• The Way From Santa Fe North Korea is backing down. Can Bush?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 13, 2003
  
• The Unspeakable Truth What Bush dares not say about North Korea.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 7, 2003