Military analysis.

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• The Pentagon's Outdated Budget Priorities Why the military would rather fund stealth fighters than soldiers.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 22, 2005
  
• Bush's Bogus Analogy In 1998, the Washington Times tipped off Osama. In 2005, the New York Times didn't.
  Daniel Benjamin Dec. 21, 2005
  
• Bush Goes Back to Black and White Sunday's speech showed glimmers of frankness, then reverted to caricature.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 19, 2005
  
• Elections Aren't Enough Seeing Iraqis vote is wonderful, but you can't rush democracy.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 15, 2005
  
• How To Withdraw Three plans for leaving Iraq: Which is best?
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 8, 2005
  
• Bush's Rosy Spin on Iraq's Economy And the pesky facts that undercut it.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 7, 2005
  
• Do As I Say, Not As I DoD Will the Pentagon ever value nation-building as much as war-fighting?
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 2, 2005
  
• The Good News—Bush Finally Has a Plan The bad news—it's an ill-defined muddle.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 30, 2005
  
• Bush's Can't-Lose Reversal Wednesday's speech will set the agenda for withdrawal from Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 29, 2005
  
• What Murtha Meant We're leaving Iraq anyway. At least he's got a plan.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 21, 2005
  
• We Still Don't Have a Plan What has everybody been doing for three years?
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 16, 2005
  
• I Was Wrong, but So Were You Parsing Bush's new mantra.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 14, 2005
  
• Spillover to Jordan They've bombed Amman. Where will the Iraqi insurgents strike next?
  Daniel Benjamin Nov. 11, 2005
  
• President Cheney His office really does run national security.
  Daniel Benjamin Nov. 7, 2005
  
• First, Fire All the Lawyers It's time to put a manager in charge of the Department of Homeland Security.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 26, 2005
  
• Now They Tell Us Why didn't Bush's foreign-policy critics speak out a year ago?
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 24, 2005
  
• Constitutional Disaster The dreadful result of the Iraq vote.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 20, 2005
  
• Mr. Richardson Goes to Pyongyang Can a New Mexico Democrat make a deal with the North Koreans?
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 18, 2005
  
• A Sliver of Hope Perhaps the Iraqi Constitution has a chance of success, after all.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 14, 2005
  
• All Pain, No Gain Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling's little-known role in the Vietnam War.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 11, 2005
  
• Say What? Bush's speech was a sad, demoralizing spectacle.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 6, 2005
  
• The Dumbing-Down of the U.S. Army And some modest proposals for countering the trend.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 4, 2005
  
• Karen Hughes, Stay Home! What on earth is she doing in the Middle East?
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 29, 2005
  
• Just Vote No Iraqis should reject the constitution.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 27, 2005
  
• No Nukes Is Good Nukes Today's North Korea breakthrough is great. Now comes the real work.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 19, 2005
  
• Guerrilla Negotiating The North Korea talks are in trouble—and this time we can't blame George Bush.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 16, 2005
  
• The Worst-Laid Plans Why was emergency planning so awful?
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 13, 2005
  
• How Do We Win in Iraq? The real question is how we keep a pullout from looking like a surrender.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 9, 2005
  
• What's My Motivation? The Department of Homeland Security is doomed to failure without a structural overhaul.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 7, 2005
  
• $41 Billion, and Not a Penny of Foresight Why is the New Orleans recovery going so badly? Just look at the DHS budget.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 2, 2005
  
• Sorry Mr. President, You're No FDR Bush's worst war analogy yet.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 31, 2005
  
• Concessions Standoff Can the Iraqi Constitution be saved?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 26, 2005
  
• Articles of Consternation Iraq's infuriatingly vague constitution.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 23, 2005
  
• Philadelphia 1787 vs. Baghdad 2005 Bush's lousy analogy.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 19, 2005
  
• Let's Talk About Nukes Why we must continue to negotiate with Pyongyang and Tehran.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 16, 2005
  
• Rice Capades What the secretary of state has done right, and wrong, in her first six months.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 11, 2005
  
• We Can Leave Iraq by 2007 Here's how.
  Fred Kaplan July 28, 2005
  
• Say G-WOT? Terror attacks, Taliban resurgence, suicide bombs—obviously, it's time to change the slogan.
  Fred Kaplan July 26, 2005
  
• India's Summer Will Bush's deal with Delhi unravel the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
  Fred Kaplan July 22, 2005
  
• It's Not Who We Are, It's What We Do What can terrorists teach us?
  Fred Kaplan July 20, 2005
  
• Planning Gridlock Why can't anyone tell New York how to spend $600 million?
  Fred Kaplan July 14, 2005
  
• Korea Moves How did we finally get back to the negotiating table?
  Fred Kaplan July 13, 2005
  
• Cracking the London Case Agatha Christie vs. the terrorists.
  Tim Naftali July 13, 2005
  
• Safe Trains or Star Wars? It's time to consider the security budget—homeland and military—as a whole.
  Fred Kaplan July 7, 2005
  
• The Doctrine Gap Reality vs. the Pentagon's new strategy.
  Fred Kaplan July 6, 2005
  
• Who's in the Army Now? Why we can't send more troops to Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan June 30, 2005
  
• Milan Snatch Extraordinary rendition comes back to bite the Bush administration.
  Tim Naftali June 30, 2005
  
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Bush's Iraq speech was great on the stakes and terrible on strategy.
  Fred Kaplan June 29, 2005
  
• Reading the Downing Street Tea Leaves When did Bush decide to invade Iraq?
  Fred Kaplan June 23, 2005
  
• Still Ticking? Bolton's nomination as U.N. ambassador takes a licking, but Bush may have another strategy up his sleeve.
  Fred Kaplan June 21, 2005
  
• The President Has Two Faces Bush is sending mixed signals on multilateralism.
  Fred Kaplan June 16, 2005
  
• Let's Go to the Memo What's really in the Downing Street memos?
  Fred Kaplan June 15, 2005
  
• Dismissed! We won't solve the military manpower crisis by retaining our worst soldiers.
  Phillip Carter June 2, 2005
  
• It's the Manpower, Stupid The president's recent speech about "military transformation" makes no sense.
  Fred Kaplan June 2, 2005
  
• Bush's Last Chance Is the president finally ready to talk to Pyongyang? Let's hope so.
  Fred Kaplan May 25, 2005
  
• Unite and Fight Can the clichés! Give Iraq's Sunnis a good reason to support the government.
  Fred Kaplan May 24, 2005
  
• Why Are We in Uzbekistan? It's time to end our association with Islam Karimov.
  Fred Kaplan May 20, 2005
  
• Kaboom! How to enrage Iraq's Sunnis.
  Fred Kaplan May 18, 2005
  
• Debased The hidden problems in the Pentagon's base-closure list.
  Phillip Carter May 13, 2005
  
• John Bolton, Survivor Plus, the cowardice of Lincoln Chafee.
  Fred Kaplan May 12, 2005
  
• Over There Why U.S. troops won't be coming home from Iraq anytime soon.
  Fred Kaplan May 10, 2005
  
• The Nuclear Mullahs Can Iran's A-bomb ambitions be stopped?
  Fred Kaplan May 6, 2005
  
• The Real Nuclear Option The Non-Proliferation Treaty is a mess. We have to save it anyway.
  Fred Kaplan May 3, 2005
  
• Power Failure What Bush still doesn't understand about Iraq and North Korea.
  Fred Kaplan April 29, 2005
  
• The Idealist in the Bluebonnets What Bush's meeting with the Saudi ruler really means.
  Fred Kaplan April 26, 2005
  
• What's Next for Our Brave Missileers? Are there good "alternative uses" for ICBMs—or are the missile men just looking for something to do?
  Fred Kaplan April 21, 2005
  
• Is John Bolton Going Down? An amazing afternoon at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
  Fred Kaplan April 19, 2005
  
• Nuclear Options Do we need new nukes?
  Fred Kaplan April 15, 2005
  
• It's Time To Write a Dear John Bolton's appalling confirmation-hearings performance.
  Fred Kaplan April 11, 2005
  
• How Many Government Agencies Does It Take To Teach Soldiers Arabic? A pathetic case of Pentagon incompetence.
  Fred Kaplan April 6, 2005
  
• Send Bolton Wandering Why the Senate should reject Bush's U.N. nominee.
  Fred Kaplan April 5, 2005
  
• To Err Is Human Organizational reforms can't prevent people from being wrong.
  Fred Kaplan April 1, 2005
  
• The Wings of a Hawk Why is Bush selling F-16s to Pakistan?
  Fred Kaplan March 31, 2005
  
• A Future the Army Can't Afford Should we spend billions on high-tech dreams?
  Fred Kaplan March 28, 2005
  
• Dispatches From Fort Campbell Before they deploy, Fort Campbell's soldiers shop for extra gear.
  Nathan Hodge March 21, 2005
  
• Sheep in Wolf's Clothing Why Paul Wolfowitz may be a good choice to run the World Bank.
  Fred Kaplan March 16, 2005
  
• Karen Hughes Sells Brand America She's supposed to market Bush policies to the Muslim world. Good luck!
  Fred Kaplan March 15, 2005
  
• Bush Flip-Flops on Iran If we're lucky, he'll flip-flop on North Korea next.
  Fred Kaplan March 11, 2005
  
• The Beirut Wall Isn't Falling Why Berlin 1989 isn't the right analogy for today's Middle East.
  Fred Kaplan March 10, 2005
  
• Bush to U.N.: Drop Dead The administration will regret its latest appointment.
  Fred Kaplan March 7, 2005
  
• Defense Procurement Follies Do we really need all these new weapons systems?
  Fred Kaplan March 4, 2005
  
• Was George Bush Right About Freedom and Democracy? Maybe. Maybe Not.
  Fred Kaplan March 3, 2005
  
• Bush Listened to Europe Now watch him ignore all the advice he got.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 24, 2005
  
• What NID Needs Bush's bold choice for national intelligence director?
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 17, 2005
  
• Supplemental Insecurity The revelations buried in Bush's latest supplemental budget request.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 15, 2005
  
• It's Time To Talk to Pyongyang Negotiating with dictators is odious, but the alternatives are far worse.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 11, 2005
  
• Rummy's Got a Secret He's hiding up to $40 billion in defense spending. Let's find it.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 8, 2005
  
• No Exit The State of the Union made Bush's Iraq strategy perfectly clear. Iran, that's a different story.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 3, 2005
  
• National Security's Hard Men Don't be fooled by Condi's apparent embrace of "soft power."
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 2, 2005
  
• Birth of a Nation? Iraq is still a mess, but today's election was a dramatic step in the right direction.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 30, 2005
  
• 2020 Vision A CIA report predicts that American global dominance could end in 15 years.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 26, 2005
  
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me... What? The muddle in Bush's inaugural address.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 20, 2005
  
• Rice and Dice John Kerry nails Condoleezza Rice on Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 19, 2005
  
• Some Questions, Mr. Chertoff What senators should ask Bush's new choice for homeland security secretary before they confirm him.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 11, 2005
  
• The People's Choice for Homeland Security Chief: Jack Welch Slate's readers speak; will President Bush listen?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 10, 2005
  
• Condi's First Victory She doesn't pick John Bolton as her deputy.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 7, 2005
  
• Enormous Bureaucracy Seeks Skilled Manager Who should be the next secretary of homeland security?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 5, 2005