Archive: Terrorism, Security, and Defense Reform


The Pentagon’s Procurement Mess (May 3, 2004)

God damn, this stuff makes me mad

Bombs in Madrid Kill 173 (March 11, 2004)

Terror attack on light rail by Basque separatists

Why Did Bush Let al Zarqawi Go? (March 4, 2004)

A good question deserving of a good answer

Pakistan Pushing for bin Laden, Omar (February 23, 2004)

About time

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (January 8, 2004)

Thinking the unthinkable

Warm Up The Blamethrowers, Boys (December 17, 2003)

Sep. 11 investigation chair says attack could have and should have been prevented

Keeping Our Eye On the Ball (December 15, 2003)

A close call for Musharraf in Pakistan

Losing the War on Terror (December 11, 2003)

More bad ideas from the people who brought you Operation Iraqi Freedom

Going ‘Round the Maginot Line (December 9, 2003)

More thoughts on missile defense

American Maginot-ism (December 7, 2003)

Bad ideas never die, apparently

Bogus Tanker Deal Is On The Rocks (December 3, 2003)

Will wonders never cease?

The Battle of Samarra, And What it Tells Us (December 2, 2003)

Another day, another firefight. Right? Wrong

Deflating Salon’s Draft Paranoia (November 5, 2003)

The draft bogeyman rears his ugly head

The Air Force’s Shameful Tanker Deal (October 27, 2003)

Iron triangles in action

Score One for Al Qaeda (September 22, 2003)

We’re the gang that couldn’t shoot straight

The Saudi Bomb? (September 18, 2003)

Dear god

More Airline Security Follies (July 22, 2003)

(sigh)

Airport Security: A Keystone Kops Production (December 31, 2002)

So I’m flying back to Washington, DC from Dayton, OH this evening after a nice, relaxing winter holiday, and when I arrive at the Dayton airport, I’m greeted with a bit of a surprise: they’ve got a new process for screening bags that you’re going to check in. Apparently the old way — handing the […]