Charles V. Peña is director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute (www.cato.org), and a member of the Cato Institute Special Task Force that produced the book Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War Against al Qaeda, and currently penning a new book Winning the Un-War: Strategy for the War on Terrorism. He is also an analyst for MSNBC.

Recent articles

The war on terror will be won not by force of arms, but by a new strategic approach that speaks to the experience of the world’s Muslims, says Charles Peña

The United States’s “war-gaming” of Iran suggests that – despite the Iraqi quagmire – the ambition of the second Bush administration to spread freedom and democracy is undiminished, says Charles V Peña.

Should bunker-busting nuclear weapons be part of United States national security strategy? Charles V Peña on a hidden faultline in the presidential race.

Three years after 9/11, what progress has the United States made in the war on terror? Charles Peña assesses the evidence and finds American policy and action wanting.

The damning findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee report in Washington on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction highlight larger political failures, says Charles Peña.