North Korea’s War Plan
Parsing harrowing threat from hot air is an essential task for monitoring the Korean peninsula. North Korean leaders and propaganda…
Short List: Top Picks for the Next CIA Director
The unexpected departure of David Petraeus as head of the top U.S. spy agency has opened up an opportunity for…
Clearing Syrian WMDs Means 75K Troops and Massive Air Strikes
In July, Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Mullalem declared that Syria’s stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons would go unused in…
Syria Air-Only War Could Be Largest of its Kind
As the Syrian civil war escalates and expands, policy makers are increasingly examining proposals to patrol “safe,” “liberated,” or “buffer…
The Cost of a Syrian Intervention
A Libya-style military intervention in Syria could take up to six times as many combat aircraft as last year’s Operation…