As Steve Coll has pointed out, occupiers always look at their man through the prism of their own societies. The Soviets judged their Afghans on the basis of ...

On Thursday, the White House released the Obama administration's first National Security Strategy. The report can be found here. Compared to the last written strategy and the previous administration's outcomes, this report is a breath of fresh air.

"As to having one person in control of all intelligence activity, I'm not certain that's possible," " says Philip Mudd, former CIA and FBI analyst and senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. ...

Both of the principle authors of New America’s drone strike survey, Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, are on vacation, but they both still (generously) addressed my questions. All three researchers — Bergen, Tiedemann and Williams — appeared to agree that New America was more methodologically aggressive than Williams in counting as civilians all who could not be clearly identified as militants, which perhaps accounts for the variance in their results.