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the debate within

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about planning and internal debate over an invasion of Iraq... After a...

the twentieth man

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui... He is charged with being the...

manhunt

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about the ongoing hunt for members of the Al Qaeda terrorist...

missed messages

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about intelligence-community harbingers of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S....

the cold test

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about the C.I.A,Pakistan, and North Korea’s nuclear program......

the iraq hawks

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about the history of plans hatched by the U.S. government to oust Saddam...

the iran game

ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY about Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons… For now,intelligence...

selective intelligence

They call themselves,self-mockingly, the Cabal—a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now...

last stand

On May 31st,Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced what appeared to be a major change in U.S....

the next act

A month before the November elections,Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a...

get out the vote

The January 30th election in Iraq was publicly perceived as a political triumph for George W. Bush...

the deal

On February 4th,Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is revered in Pakistan as the father of the countrys...

lunch with the chairman

At the peak of his deal-making activities,in the nineteen-seventies, the Saudi-born businessman...

the syrian bet

On the night of June 18th,Task Force 20, an American Special Operations team stationed in Iraq, or...

the general s report

On the afternoon of May 6,2004, Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba was summoned to meet, or for...

who lied to whom?

Last September 24th,as Congress prepared to vote on the resolution authorizing President George W....

watching lebanon

In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel,on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers,...

the getaway

In Afghanistan last November,the Northern Alliance, supported by American Special Forces troops and...

the other war

In December,2002, a year after the Taliban had been driven from power in Afghanistan, or Donald...

iran and the bomb

Is Iran actively trying to develop nuclear weapons? Members of the Obama Administration often talk...

defending the arsenal

In the tumultuous days leading up to the Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of...

chain of command

In his devastating report on conditions at Abu Ghraib prison,in Iraq, Major General Antonio M....

syria calling

When the Israelis’ controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended,on January 18th,...

the iran plans

The Bush Administration,while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to conclude Iran from pursuing...

the coming wars

George W. Bush’s reëlection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his...

the redirection

In the past few months,as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, and in...

moving targets

The Bush Administration has authorized a major escalation of the Special Forces covert war in Iraq....

offense and defense

As the ground campaign against Saddam Hussein faltered last week,with attenuated supply lines and a...

the online threat

On April 1,2001, an American EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance plane on an eavesdropping mission...

preparing the battlefield

L ate final year,Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of...

plan b

In July,2003, two months after President Bush declared victory in Iraq, or the war,far from winding...

the gray zone

The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army...

torture at abu ghraib

In the era of Saddam Hussein,Abu Ghraib, twenty miles west of Baghdad, and was one of the world’s...

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