COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — In the debate over terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and the threat they present to America’s communities, retired U.S. Air Force Col. Randall Larsen says we may stand in the way of our own safety. This happens, according to him, because we typically pose the wrong questions.
Instead of asking how to [...]

NEW YORK — The “Greatest Generation” just lost another son, and the world is poorer for it. Ralph Dyer, a lifelong resident of this city and former Navy man, courageously and ably served his country in World War II, ferrying the fallen from the battlefields of France to their final resting places. Now, they are [...]

Political violence of the kind that recently rocked India will necessarily dominate the agenda of President-elect Barack Obama and his newly announced national security team.
In addition to killing or injuring hundreds of people from various countries, the miscreants in Mumbai assaulted the world’s sense of decency in ways similar to the Sept. 11 perpetrators. Such [...]

Now that both the Democratic and Republican presidential-campaign teams have a strong component of foreign-policy expertise, how will they use it?
They had better act quickly, because time is short. During the few months before Election Day, voters should demand that the presidential contenders address the international challenges facing the United States with clarity and [...]

Terrorist cowardice was in full view last week, as bombs ripped through Istanbul, and in other recent attacks that devastated the Indian cities of Bangalore and Ahmedabad. Those atrocities, which killed or injured hundreds of people, should remind us that the next attack can come at any time or place. Americans who have been watching [...]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — If America’s key asymmetric advantage is its people, as U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asserted during a national conference last week, then why are we waiting to engage everyone in a serious, public debate on how best to maximize the application of this nation’s strengths against the weaknesses of its [...]

When a country has a complicated, problematic and history-burdened relationship with another nation – as China has with Japan – one would anticipate strained ties at best. Why, then, has Chinese President Hu Jintao undertaken a state visit to Tokyo?

The campaign for the U.S. presidency finally has veered in a more interesting direction. On a daily basis since Super Tuesday, dozens of people have contacted me to express similar thoughts. Especially on the Democratic side, the contest has turned into a real competition.
To generate even more appeal, the candidates in both parities – and [...]

Terrorists reached new lows of ugly behavior in Baghdad last week by remotely detonating the explosives-laden bodies of two mentally challenged women. Now, it is bad enough when terrorists knowingly sacrifice themselves to cause murder and mayhem. But when they manipulate others into doing their evil bidding – in this case, as unwitting suicide bombers [...]

Shortly before this week’s U.S.-guided, Israeli-Palestinian summit meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, I spent a day with someone who understands the complexities of Middle East peacemaking better than most: Jehan Sadat, the widow of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Our conversations took me back to a more optimistic period, that of the Camp David Accords, when the [...]