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Globalizing the global war on terror.

The new trajectory of US warfare.

Whistling past the graveyard of empires.

Why did Obama administration lawyers refuse to discount the possibility, even for First Amendment–protected speech?

The nearly $1 trillion national security budget.

Why the real victor in Campaign 2012 won’t be Obama or Romney.

On staring death in the face and not noticing.

The dramatic opening of the 9/11 trial shined a light on all the ways in which a commission is not a federal court.

Six recent clashes and conflicts on a planet heading into energy overdrive.

We should shrink the alliance’s budget and ambitions and focus on the greatest threat to the West: economic crisis.