Military analysis.

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• Home Thoughts From Abroad Some U.S. soldiers have spent so much time in Iraq, it feels like home.
  Lawrence Kaplan Dec. 26, 2007
  
• Six Months That Could Change Iraq Three possible post-surge scenarios.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 24, 2007
  
• Remember Iraq? Why the Democrats aren't ending the war.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 20, 2007
  
• After the Iran NIE Diplomacy might be a good idea.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 6, 2007
  
• Nuclear Meltdown We're not going to bomb Iran.
  Fred Kaplan Dec. 3, 2007
  
• Spaced Shuttle Diplomacy Why did it take so long to get to Annapolis?
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 28, 2007
  
• Promoting Innovation Can Gen. David Petraeus fix the Army's broken promotion system?
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 21, 2007
  
• War Porn Brian De Palma's Redacted is schlock fantasy.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 16, 2007
  
• Let Them In Bush's outrageous neglect of Iraqi refugees.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 15, 2007
  
• To Know Us Is To Love Us Slate readers on how to improve America's image in the world.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 14, 2007
  
• Jazz, Rock 'n' Roll, and Diplomacy Can American culture make Muslims love us?
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 9, 2007
  
• I Want You … Badly A complete guide to Uncle Sam's recruiting incentives.
  Phillip Carter Nov. 7, 2007
  
• The Freedom Agenda Fizzles How George Bush and Condoleezza Rice made a mess of Pakistan.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 6, 2007
  
• Raw Data The dark side of Iraq's good news.
  Phillip Carter Nov. 2, 2007
  
• Heck of a Job, Hughsie Karen Hughes throws in the towel.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 1, 2007
  
• The Sandbox 
  David Stanford Oct. 31, 2007
  
• The Sandbox The dog that followed me through Baghdad.
  David Stanford Oct. 29, 2007
  
• How Are We Doing? What Iraqis think of the U.S. occupation.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 26, 2007
  
• An Airstrike a Day Won't Keep Insurgents at Bay It might mean fewer dead Americans, though.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 24, 2007
  
• Resign, Retire, Renounce What should generals do if Bush orders a foolish attack on Iran?
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 17, 2007
  
• Secretary Gates Declares War on the Army Brass Unfortunately, he doesn't have time to fight that battle.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 12, 2007
  
• What Can We Still Achieve in Iraq? Reconciliation's off the table, but there are other decent ways out.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 10, 2007
  
• Pete the Parrot Departs Good riddance to the last of the Rumsfeld generals.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 5, 2007
  
• Blame Yeltsin The historical roots of Vladimir Putin's power play.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 2, 2007
  
• Learning From Bush's Mistakes How a prewar conversation can help us pick the next president.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 27, 2007
  
• Bush Isn't Truman And the next president won't be Eisenhower.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 24, 2007
  
• The Discussion That Isn't Happening Why isn't Congress asking tough questions about Pentagon spending?
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 21, 2007
  
• Deceptive or Delusional? Bush's appalling Iraq speech.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 14, 2007
  
• Lost Voices Why the deaths of Yance T. Gray and Omar Mora are particularly galling.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 12, 2007
  
• That's More Like It! The Senate grills Petraeus and Crocker.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 11, 2007
  
• The House Tosses Softballs to Gen. Petraeus Six hours of largely predictable, pro forma testimony.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 10, 2007
  
• Who Disbanded the Iraqi Army? And why was nobody held accountable?
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 7, 2007
  
• What Congress Needs To Ask Petraeus and Crocker If we're staying in Iraq, we need to know why.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 6, 2007
  
• Sorry, Mr. President, You're All Out of Troops But maybe France can help solve the Iraq mess.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 29, 2007
  
• The Magnificent Seven Soldiers pen a jaw-dropping NYT op-ed about the war in Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 22, 2007
  
• Rudy, the Anti-Statesman Giuliani's loopy foreign-policy essay.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 16, 2007
  
• Draft Numbers If we want to take on the world's problems, we may need the draft. Still want to?
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 14, 2007
  
• Remembering Partition The parallels between India '47 and Iraq '07.
  Fred Kaplan Aug. 9, 2007
  
• Combat Confessional What to make of the New Republic's Baghdad Diarist?
  Phillip Carter Aug. 7, 2007
  
• Irrelevant Exuberance Why the latest good news from Iraq doesn't matter.
  Phillip Carter Aug. 1, 2007
  
• Defeat Without Disaster The least bad plan for leaving Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan July 27, 2007
  
• Interesting, But Doomed Why Petraeus' intriguing new Iraq strategy will probably fail.
  Fred Kaplan July 25, 2007
  
• The Pentagon Insults Hillary Clinton Big mistake.
  Fred Kaplan July 20, 2007
  
• Spy Surge Prepare for more domestic spying.
  Fred Kaplan July 18, 2007
  
• Read It and Weep Even Bush's intelligence report says the war in Iraq is making us less safe at home.
  Fred Kaplan July 17, 2007
  
• You Call That Progress? The outrageous White House report on Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan July 12, 2007
  
• Message: Stay the Course There was nothing new in Bush's weird, rambling speech.
  Fred Kaplan July 10, 2007
  
• How Putin Played Bush in Kennebunkport And how Bush could still come out on top.
  Fred Kaplan July 5, 2007
  
• When Vladimir Meets George What's on the agenda for this weekend's informal summit?
  Fred Kaplan June 29, 2007
  
• Lugar's Stemwinder Is the mild-mannered senator a grenade-thrower or a Bush stalking horse?
  Fred Kaplan June 28, 2007
  
• The Man Who Knows Too Little What Rudy Giuliani's greedy decision to quit the Iraq Study Group reveals about his candidacy.
  Fred Kaplan June 21, 2007
  
• The Enemy of My Enemy How Sunni insurgents can help us.
  Fred Kaplan June 14, 2007
  
• Is Russia Our Enemy? These days, it's not so simple.
  Fred Kaplan June 7, 2007
  
• Freedom's Just Another Word Bush's deluded speech to the world's oppressed.
  Fred Kaplan June 5, 2007
  
• Iraq Is Korea? Bush's latest appalling historical analogy.
  Fred Kaplan May 31, 2007
  
• Bush's Failed Campaign To Rebrand America The administration believes public relations is a synonym for diplomacy.
  Fred Kaplan May 30, 2007
  
• Hyping al-Qaida Bush bungles a press conference.
  Fred Kaplan May 24, 2007
  
• Exit Stage Right A step-by-step plan for withdrawing from Iraq.
  Phillip Carter May 23, 2007
  
• The Adviser Model We have to stay in Iraq for a decade. Here's how to do it.
  Owen West May 23, 2007
  
• In Search of Plan B Future Iraq strategy, same as the old Iraq strategies.
  Fred Kaplan May 22, 2007
  
• Paul Wolfowitz's Real Problem? He's too good at math.
  Fred Kaplan May 18, 2007
  
• It's Patriotic To Criticize How our generals got so mediocre.
  Fred Kaplan May 16, 2007
  
• House Democrats Back Down The military budget is as bloated as ever.
  Fred Kaplan May 10, 2007
  
• In Search of a Political Mission Are the Democrats and Bushies playing good cop/bad cop with the Iraqis?
  Fred Kaplan May 9, 2007
  
• The Great Wall of Indifference On patrol inside Baghdad's tensest neighborhood.
  Bing West April 25, 2007
  
• Bush Flunks Diplomacy 101 How to infuriate Russia and the European Union and waste $10 billion a year.
  Fred Kaplan April 23, 2007
  
• Plan FUBAR Time for Plan G in Iraq?
  Phillip Carter April 18, 2007
  
• McCain Self-Destructs His appalling Times interview about the Iraq war.
  Fred Kaplan April 16, 2007
  
• General Knowledge Why no one wants to be Bush's war czar.
  Fred Kaplan April 12, 2007
  
• Two Ways Out Iraq plans Bush won't consider, but his successor should.
  Fred Kaplan April 9, 2007
  
• Who'll Blink First? President Bush plays chicken with the Democratic Congress.
  Fred Kaplan April 3, 2007
  
• B-52, Where Are You? Why the Pentagon doesn't want you to know its bombers finally work.
  Gregg Easterbrook April 2, 2007
  
• Broken Arrow How the U.S. Army broke in Iraq.
  Phillip Carter March 30, 2007
  
• Listen Up, Mr. President Is Congress using the Iraq bills to send a message?
  Fred Kaplan March 29, 2007
  
• Guy Smiley Bush's unaccountably upbeat Iraq speech.
  Fred Kaplan March 19, 2007
  
• Confession as Propaganda Khalid Sheikh Mohammed displays his PR skills.
  Daniel Byman March 15, 2007
  
• Don't Ask The increasing incoherence of the military's gay exclusion policy.
  Nathaniel Frank March 13, 2007
  
• A Debt of Gratitude Why is Bush so obsessed with ungrateful foreigners?
  Fred Kaplan March 13, 2007
  
• Feith-Based Intelligence The former undersecretary of defense's preposterous self-defense.
  Daniel Benjamin March 9, 2007
  
• It's Not Just Walter Reed Still more ways Bush is screwing returning vets.
  Fred Kaplan March 7, 2007
  
• No Confidence? No Kidding! The North Korea intel botch is worse than you think.
  Fred Kaplan March 1, 2007
  
• Four-Star Bureaucrats It's time to fire a few generals.
  Phillip Carter March 1, 2007
  
• Say What? Four bewildering remarks from the Bush administration.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 20, 2007
  
• Bush Channels Bill The new North Korea deal is surprisingly Clintonian.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 13, 2007
  
• There Are Four Iraq Wars How many of them can we win?
  Phillip Carter Feb. 9, 2007
  
• It's Time To Sharpen the Scissors Breaking down the $739 billion defense budget.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 5, 2007
  
• Rendition at Risk The Bush administration's excesses have endangered a valuable tool.
  Daniel Benjamin Feb. 2, 2007
  
• The Sunni-Shiite Folly The Bush administration's cockeyed strategy to promote sectarian conflict in the Middle East.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 1, 2007
  
• He Still Doesn't Understand the War Bush whiffs on Iraq again during the State of the Union.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 24, 2007
  
• Waking Up to Reality Condi makes nice in the Middle East.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 17, 2007
  
• Promises, Promises What happens if the Iraqis fail again?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 11, 2007
  
• Mission Impossible Bush's smart new general can't save Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 9, 2007
  
• Iron Man Why Bush still won't change his strategy.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 3, 2007