Hot Spots

Tom Ricks\' viewpoints on Iraq; Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan

Iran\'s nuclear program...opinion of David Kay

Barack Obama\'s Inaugural Address

The Bush presidency...pros and cons

Can we detect the source of a nuclear weapon? Who will restore order?

The late Harvard professor Samuel Huntington\'s 1993 groundbreaking essay

A congressional study on the risk of an attack, possibly from within

Dealing with the Somali pirates...international law.

An electromagnetic pulse attack would be the end of the United States as we know it.

The National Intelligence Council estimate.