Military analysis.

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• Rumsfeld's Dubious Deficit Cutting Pentagon budget cuts will take years to translate into savings.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 30, 2004
  
• Iraq 2004 Looks Like Vietnam 1966 Adjusting body counts for medical and military changes.
  Phillip Carter Dec. 27, 2004
  
• Just Another "Unknown Anomaly" Must we spend another $80 billion before we admit missile defense doesn't work?
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 16, 2004
  
• Rumsfeld vs. the American Soldier What Rummy's survival says about Bush's plans for his second term.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 8, 2004
  
• You Call That a Reform Bill? The new national intelligence director will be a toothless figurehead.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 7, 2004
  
• All Homeland Security Is Local Which is why Bernard Kerik is the right choice to lead the department.
  Phillip Carter Dec. 3, 2004
  
• Questions for Kerik Is he qualified to run the Department of Homeland Security?
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 3, 2004
  
• The Fastest Way To Send a Message Why is James Baker talking to the president via the New York Times op-ed page?
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 2, 2004
  
• It's Mullah Time Don't stop worrying about Iranian nukes just yet.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 30, 2004
  
• Fried Rice The Bushie who could spoil Condi's dream job.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 19, 2004
  
• What the Marine Did The shooting of an unarmed Iraqi was a tragedy. But was it a war crime?
  Phillip Carter Nov. 18, 2004
  
• Why Powell Had To Go And how will Condi fare as his successor?
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 15, 2004
  
• Breaking Up To Stay Together? If Iraq is to survive, the Sunnis must get their share of the oil revenue.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 12, 2004
  
• So We Win Fallujah. Then What? The big question is what comes after.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 8, 2004
  
• Bush's Second-Term Test Now that the election's over, can the president admit his mistakes?
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 3, 2004
  
• Osama's Campaign Commercial Does he hope his video will help Bush?
  Daniel Benjamin Oct. 31, 2004
  
• 100,000 Dead—or 8,000 How many Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the war?
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 29, 2004
  
• Holy Zarqawi Why Bush let Iraq's top terrorist walk.
  Daniel Benjamin Oct. 29, 2004
  
• Reckless or Clueless? Were the administration's Iraq gaffes due to bad thinking or no thinking at all?
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 27, 2004
  
• When Is a Cut Not a Cut? When it's a con. Bush's deceptive new ad.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 22, 2004
  
• Rumsfeld's Legacy "Military transformation"? Mission not-yet-accomplished.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 19, 2004
  
• The Reserve Mutiny How the Iraq war is crippling the Army Reserve.
  Phillip Carter Oct. 18, 2004
  
• Winning the War for Muslim Minds What Bush can learn from The Battle of Algiers DVD.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 14, 2004
  
• War Without Reason The total collapse of Bush's arguments for invading Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 8, 2004
  
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Bush's Iraq Statistics The security forces are inadequate, the coalition is a joke, and reconstruction has barely begun.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 7, 2004
  
• A Thin Blue Line Why Iraqi cops are struggling.
  Owen West Oct. 7, 2004
  
• You Call That a Major Policy Address? In a week of devastating revelations about his Iraq policies, Bush has nothing new to say.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 6, 2004
  
• If He Can't Stand Up to Cheney … Edwards fails to counter the vice president's foreign-policy distortions.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 6, 2004
  
• Kerry Takes Round 1 The challenger dominates the foreign-policy debate.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 1, 2004
  
• Who Really Deserves a Silver Star? The military's unfair awards system.
  Owen West Sept. 29, 2004
  
• Sweet Nothings Bush's U.N. speech offers platitudes instead of solutions.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 21, 2004
  
• Missile Defense: Mission Unaccomplished When will Bush stop throwing billions at a failing project?
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 17, 2004
  
• Does Torture Work? Seymour Hersh evades the question.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 14, 2004
  
• Personnel Foul Let's stop fixating on structural problems and figure out how to recruit and reward smart spooks.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 8, 2004
  
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention Speeches Setting Kerry's record right—again.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 2, 2004
  
• The Friendly Spook Why allies spy on allies.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 1, 2004
  
• Dismantle the CIA? What's behind Sen. Roberts' awful intelligence-reform proposal?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 25, 2004
  
• Goodbye, Geneva It's time to rewrite the laws of war.
  Phillip Carter Aug. 24, 2004
  
• Holiday in Cambodia The "Christmas Eve" attack on Kerry is cheap and almost certainly wrong.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 23, 2004
  
• No Way Out Is there any hope of avoiding catastrophe in Iraq?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 13, 2004
  
• Spies Like Goss How much of a hack is Bush's CIA nominee?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 10, 2004
  
• Dick Nixed It Is this why Bush's intelligence-czar plan is so half-hearted?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 6, 2004
  
• Waving the Orange Flag Did the Bushies overplay the latest al-Qaida threat?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 3, 2004
  
• Federal Bureau of Incompetence The shameful treatment of Sibel Edmonds proves the FBI's urgent need for reform.
  Fred Kaplan July 29, 2004
  
• We're Losing the Arms Race With North Korea What's the optimal number of anti-missile missiles? None.
  Fred Kaplan July 27, 2004
  
• Show Me the Money The 9/11 commission's report is superb, but will it change anything?
  Fred Kaplan July 22, 2004
  
• Berger With a Side of Secret Documents Is he a criminal or a klutz?
  Fred Kaplan July 21, 2004
  
• Bush's Foreign Fantasy The president thinks the world is safer than it was three years ago. Which world is he living in?
  Fred Kaplan July 16, 2004
  
• What Did Bush Know? And what did he think his intelligence agencies knew about Iraqi WMD?
  Fred Kaplan July 14, 2004
  
• Red Herrings Can the CIA be saved?
  Fred Kaplan July 9, 2004
  
• For Want of a Bolt ... How the Iraq war could have been lost.
  Fred Kaplan July 7, 2004
  
• Taking It to the Trenches What the Supreme Court's terrorism decisions will mean for the war effort.
  Phillip Carter June 29, 2004
  
• Let's Hear It for the Handover Finally, Bush does something right in Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan June 28, 2004
  
• Bush Bargains Badly Kim Jong-il outwits W. on nukes.
  Fred Kaplan June 25, 2004
  
• The False Promises of a Draft Why conscription won't improve the military.
  Fred Kaplan June 23, 2004
  
• The Pentagon's Fuzzy Math Does anyone know how many soldiers we really need?
  Phillip Carter June 23, 2004
  
• It Depends What the Meaning of "Relationship" Is President Bush's Clintonian calibrations on al-Qaida.
  Fred Kaplan June 17, 2004
  
• Reagan's Osama Connection How he turned a jihadist into a terrorist kingpin.
  Fred Kaplan June 10, 2004
  
• Ron and Mikhail's Excellent Adventure How Reagan won the Cold War.
  Fred Kaplan June 9, 2004
  
• Bye, George It's been a bad week for the Bushies.
  Fred Kaplan June 3, 2004
  
• Gen. Zinni's Job Application Which position in the next administration is he angling for?
  Fred Kaplan June 2, 2004
  
• What Bush Should Have Said His Iraq speech was only a year late.
  Fred Kaplan May 25, 2004
  
• Ahmad Chalabi's House of Games His con is up.
  Fred Kaplan May 24, 2004
  
• Locked in Abu Ghraib The prison scandal keeps getting worse for the Bush administration.
  Fred Kaplan May 17, 2004
  
• The Buck Stops … Where? Stop blaming your henchmen, Mr. President.
  Fred Kaplan May 14, 2004
  
• Failing To Recognize Failure Why does the president still trust Rumsfeld's judgment?
  Fred Kaplan May 12, 2004
  
• I Will Survive Why Bush (probably) won't dump Rumsfeld.
  Fred Kaplan May 7, 2004
  
• Why Bush Didn't Apologize In his Arab TV interviews, the president refused to say the words Iraqis needed to hear: I'm sorry.
  Fred Kaplan May 5, 2004
  
• Policing Iraq How to stay in—without staying the course.
  Fred Kaplan May 4, 2004
  
• The CPA's Multiple Personality Disorder Conflicting accounts about the authority's status are helping it shirk accountability rules.
  Eric Umansky May 4, 2004
  
• GI Joe vs. the Jarheads Who's winning the rivalry between the Army and Marine Corps in Iraq? Nobody.
  Fred Kaplan April 30, 2004
  
• The Fallujah Dilemma If the Marines attack, we can no longer pretend the war is over.
  Fred Kaplan April 27, 2004
  
• Our Hidden WMD Program Why Bush is spending so much on nuclear weapons.
  Fred Kaplan April 23, 2004
  
• Hollow Force Has Iraq stretched the U.S. military to its breaking point?
  Phillip Carter April 23, 2004
  
• Sideshow Bob Why Woodward always misses the point.
  Fred Kaplan April 21, 2004
  
• The Out-of-Towner While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard.
  Fred Kaplan April 14, 2004
  
• Ashcroft Gets a Free Pass Are the commissioners afraid to seem partisan?
  Fred Kaplan April 14, 2004
  
• Condi Lousy Why Rice is a bad national security adviser.
  Fred Kaplan April 8, 2004
  
• Iraq Hawks Down Is Fallujah Iraq's Mogadishu?
  Fred Kaplan April 1, 2004
  
• The Dogs That Didn't Bark Why Colin Powell and George Tenet aren't bashing Richard Clarke.
  Fred Kaplan March 31, 2004
  
• Richard Clarke KOs the Bushies The ex-terrorism official dazzles at the 9/11 commission hearings.
  Fred Kaplan March 24, 2004
  
• Dick Clarke Is Telling the Truth Why he's right about Bush's negligence on terrorism.
  Fred Kaplan March 23, 2004
  
• The Spanish Civil War If Zapatero's Iraq pledges are outrageous, so are Bremer's.
  Fred Kaplan March 18, 2004
  
• Bush's Latest Missile-Defense Folly Why spend billions on a system that might never work?
  Fred Kaplan March 12, 2004
  
• Bush Insults Kerry's Intelligence The president's latest attack is even more dishonest than the last.
  Fred Kaplan March 9, 2004
  
• Egomania, INC Ahmad Chalabi is loyal to just one cause: his own ambition.
  Fred Kaplan March 8, 2004
  
• John Kerry's Defense Defense Setting his voting record straight.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 25, 2004
  
• Good Marines Make Good Neighbors Why a Vietnam War counterinsurgency program is being tried again in Iraq.
  Mark Mazzetti Feb. 25, 2004
  
• Homeland Security's Mystery Money Why no one knows what we're spending on domestic counterterrorism.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 23, 2004
  
• Hummer Bummer Why is the White House underfunding armored Humvees?
  Eric Umansky Feb. 18, 2004
  
• Do As I Say Bush's empty nuke-proliferation rhetoric.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 12, 2004
  
• Bush at Sea Does this war president have any idea what he's talking about?
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 9, 2004
  
• Trimming the Fat How to put the military budget on a diet.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 3, 2004
  
• The Art of Camouflage David Kay comes clean, almost.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 26, 2004
  
• Evasions, Half-Truths, and the State of the Union Can we trust this year's speech?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 21, 2004
  
• Our Move The Bush administration needs to play—and win—North Korea's game of nuclear chicken.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 5, 2004