Micah Zenko

Micah Zenko is a Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World. He writes regularly at Politics, Power, and Preventative Action.

Building a Drone With Your iPhone

Building a Drone With Your iPhone

How smart phones and other consumer technology can aid, or even replicate, some military uses. More »

Intervention, Please: the 'No-Fly Zone' Requests You Don't Hear About

Intervention, Please: the 'No-Fly Zone' Requests You Don't Hear About

Foreign governments and peoples ask for international humanitarian interventions all the time, so why do we only pay attention to some and ignore others? More »

Predicting Future War: What H.G. Wells Got Right and Wrong

Predicting Future War: What H.G. Wells Got Right and Wrong

Was the early science fiction writer better at predicting the nature of conflict than the Pentagon? More »

Preventive Priorities Survey: What Threats Will America Face in 2012?

Preventive Priorities Survey: What Threats Will America Face in 2012?

The Council on Foreign Relations surveyed 300 national security experts on three tiers of challenges the U.S. is likely to face next year More »

Some Syrian Oppositions Groups Want Intervention—Sort Of

Some Syrian Oppositions Groups Want Intervention—Sort Of

They're asking for a sort of "intervention à la carte," picking and choosing who would intervene, with what, and for how long More »

A Brief History: One Century of Military Airpower

A Brief History: One Century of Military Airpower

The first use aircraft as an instrument of warfare took place 100 years ago this week in Libya More »

More Syrians Are Calling for a No-Fly Zone—Should We Take it Seriously?

More Syrians Are Calling for a No-Fly Zone—Should We Take it Seriously?

What a Western air mission might achieve, what it probably wouldn't, and why some Syrian protesters seem increasingly interested More »

What's Wrong With Kenya's Invasion of Somalia

What's Wrong With Kenya's Invasion of Somalia

Whatever the actual political motivations of this new effort, military force is unlikely to solve Somalia's Problems More »

What We Really Mean When We Talk About a Syrian No-Fly Zone

What We Really Mean When We Talk About a Syrian No-Fly Zone

Syrian activists are increasingly calling for some kind of outside military support, but what are they really asking for and what would it do? More »

The Courage of Pakistani Journalists

The Courage of Pakistani Journalists

Pakistan and the world rely on brave men and women like reporter Saleem Shahzad, who was recently killed under mysterious circumstances More »

The Case for Ending America's Military Presence in Iraq

The Case for Ending America's Military Presence in Iraq

The U.S. wants to leave 3,000 troops, but there's little evidence it would be very helpful More »

Who Can't America Kill?

Who Can't America Kill?

Since September 11, the threshold for who and where the U.S. military and intelligence community can kill has been increasingly lowered, with no end in sight More »

Compared to Iraq and Afghanistan, the War in Libya Is Cheap

Compared to Iraq and Afghanistan, the War in Libya Is Cheap

Critics of the military effort against Gaddafi said it would be too great of a financial burden More »

Should the U.S. Support Regime Change in Syria?

Should the U.S. Support Regime Change in Syria?

Hillary Clinton has said Bashar al-Assad no longer has "legitimacy" More »

Libya No-Fly-Zone Is Anything But

Libya No-Fly-Zone Is Anything But

NATO appears to be enforcing the UN-approved measure selectively More »

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