Military analysis.

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• How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy? Not as much as he'd like you to think.
  Fred Kaplan July 23, 2008
  
• Grading the Candidates' War Speeches Obama's was flawed; McCain's is a bit of a fantasy.
  Fred Kaplan July 16, 2008
  
• Obama Gets Help From Iraq's Prime Minister And from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Fred Kaplan July 10, 2008
  
• The Grunt vs. the Flyboy The real reason for Wesley Clark's ill-advised comments about John McCain's military record.
  Fred Kaplan July 1, 2008
  
• Better Than Nothing Decoding North Korea's latest moves.
  Fred Kaplan June 27, 2008
  
• The Taliban Are Back. What Now? The long road to fixing Afghanistan winds through Pakistan.
  Fred Kaplan June 17, 2008
  
• Listening to Dissent How should a president handle uncertainties or disputes on intelligence?
  Fred Kaplan June 10, 2008
  
• Is Barack Obama Too Naive To Be President? Not in the post-Cold War world.
  Fred Kaplan June 4, 2008
  
• Worse Than Bush When it comes to foreign policy, McCain is more of a neocon than the president.
  Fred Kaplan May 28, 2008
  
• Blurred Vision Bush's blundering brand of "diplomacy."
  Fred Kaplan May 16, 2008
  
• Prison Break Maybe the Army's not so hidebound after all.
  Fred Kaplan May 8, 2008
  
• The Army's Math Problem We don't have any more soldiers to send to Afghanistan unless we take some out of Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan May 5, 2008
  
• Revolving Doors What the shifting of generals bodes for Afghanistan and Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan April 24, 2008
  
• Gates Celebrates Dissent The generals quash it.
  Fred Kaplan April 23, 2008
  
• Shot by Both Sides Iran is outsmarting us in Iraq.
  Fred Kaplan April 22, 2008
  
• I Don't Know. Go Ask Petraeus. McCain's appalling answer to a question about national-security policy.
  Fred Kaplan April 16, 2008
  
• Bush's Double Talk on Iraq A close reading of the president's latest speech.
  Fred Kaplan April 10, 2008
  
• Stonewall Petraeus Testifying before the Senate, the general sticks to the script.
  Fred Kaplan April 8, 2008
  
• Bush Bungles in Basra and Bucharest The president's latest gaffes.
  Fred Kaplan April 3, 2008
  
• Warlord vs. Warlord What are they fighting about in Basra?
  Fred Kaplan March 27, 2008
  
• What Does Bush Mean by "Victory in Iraq"? His grandiose definition makes defeat almost inevitable.
  Fred Kaplan March 25, 2008
  
• Five Years Gone What, exactly, has the Iraq war achieved? A lot? A little something? Nothing at all?
  Fred Kaplan March 18, 2008
  
• Afghanistan Envy Bush's romantic notions about serving on the front lines.
  Fred Kaplan March 14, 2008
  
• "Fox" Fallon Wasn't Hounded Out The Centcom commander brought about his own ouster.
  Fred Kaplan March 12, 2008
  
• Where Are This War's Winter Soldiers? Why Iraq war veterans have not had much impact on the debate over the war.
  Ronald R. Krebs March 7, 2008
  
• Welcome to the Quagmire The next president may be stuck with more problems in Iraq than Bush ever faced.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 29, 2008
  
• Shooting Down the Hype The satellite takedown doesn't prove anything about our missile-defense capability.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 22, 2008
  
• This Is Not an Emergency Supplemental war funds are a backdoor way to boost the defense budget.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 20, 2008
  
• The Bonus Army The creeping monetization of military service.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 18, 2008
  
• China Canard The Air Force doesn't need any more F-22s.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 14, 2008
  
• Flawed by Design Gates and Rice shouldn't be angry, or surprised, at NATO's failure in Afghanistan.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 8, 2008
  
• What's Really in the U.S. Military Budget? Much more than the oft-cited $515.4 billion.
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 4, 2008
  
• Daydream Believers How can the United States regain its influence while retaining its moral values?
  Fred Kaplan Feb. 3, 2008
  
• The Man Who Learned Too Little In his final State of the Union, Bush makes more empty promises.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 29, 2008
  
• Dumb and Dumber The U.S. Army lowers recruitment standards … again.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 24, 2008
  
• An Officer and a Family Man Why is the Army losing so many talented midlevel officers?
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 16, 2008
  
• Artificial Intelligence President Bush's cavalier dismissal of the NIE undermines our credibility, again.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 14, 2008
  
• What Happened in the Strait of Hormuz? How to prevent a naval war with Iran.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 10, 2008
  
• Deadly Diyala The war in Iraq grinds on.
  Phillip Carter Jan. 10, 2008