May 2006

Wars on Terrorism

July/August 2004

Plan of Attack

The United States is not just facing an insurgency in Iraq—it's facing "netwar," the newest kind.

January/February 2004

Aftermath

In Jerusalem cleaning up after a suicide bombing is business as usual.

June 2003

The Logic of Suicide Terrorism

First you feel nervous about riding the bus. Then you wonder about going to a mall. Then you think twice about sitting for long at your favorite café. Then nowhere seems safe. Terrorist groups have a strategy—to shrink to nothing the areas in which people move freely—and suicide bombers, inexpensive and reliably lethal, are their latest weapons. Israel has learned to recognize and disrupt the steps on the path to suicide attacks. We must learn too.

April 2003

The Leadership Secrets of Osama bin Laden

The terrorist as CEO.

January 2002

A Nasty Business

Gathering "good intelligence" against terrorists is an inherently brutish enterprise, involving methods a civics class might not condone. Should we care?

December 2001

One-Alarm Fire

U.S. counterterrorism may be overly preoccupied with biological weapons—which have a rather poor track record.

December 2001

All You Need Is Love

How the terrorists stopped terrorism.