Table of Contents
Spring 2009 - Number 16
From the Publisher

Tom Neumann

Editor’s Corner

Ilan Berman

The U.S. Military Faces the Future

Wishful Thinking and Indecisive Wars

Ralph Peters

Wanted: moral clarity in the War on Terror

A Balanced Approach to Irregular Warfare

Admiral Eric T. Olson

How the U.S. military is adapting to the new way of war

Future Force Planning for the Middle East

Rear Admiral John F. Sigler

Anticipating America’s presence in the world’s most volatile region

The Missile Defense Mission

Jeff Kueter

The growing worldwide ballistic missile threat and the U.S. response

Contextualizing Counterinsurgency

Stephen Sloan & Sebastian L. v. Gorka

When it comes to COIN, one size doesn’t fit all

A Post-Conflict Primer

J. Sullivan, A. Shkolnikov & A. Nadgrodkiewicz

Winning the peace through economic and political development

Higher Miseducation

Patrick Poole

How our military schools of higher learning are contributing to our strategic blindness

New Strategic Challenges

The Perilous Future of U.S. Strategic Forces

B. Thayer & T. Skypek

America’s slow slide into nuclear atrophy, and what it portends

Not Saved by “Zero”

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Wishful thinking on nuclear disarmament

The Art of (Cyber) War

Brian M. Mazanec

The dragon goes digital. U.S. officials should worry

Finding Equilibrium on Iran

Mario Loyola

Striking the right balance between diplomatic carrots and strategic sticks

Fixing Our Pakistan Problem

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Islamic radicalism runs deep in our “strategic partner”

Perspective

“The Power of the Ought”: An Interview with Ambassador Max Kampelman

Dispatches

LEBANON: Out of Gas

Nicholas Noe

INDIA: Pakistan’s Enemy Within

M. D. Nalapat

BELGIUM: The Case for Montenegro

Borut Grgic

Book Reviews

Gambling with Theory

Baker Spring

Keith Payne’s definitive work on deterrence and its dangers

An Inconvenient Truth

Matthew R. J. Brodsky

Seeing Syria straight, thanks to Barry Rubin

Death by Bureaucracy

Shawn Macomber

Bill Gertz versus the Beltway

A Middle Way on Space

Eric Sayers

Bruce MacDonald attempts to balance space security and international cooperation

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