The global effort to extinguish the nuclear peril needs to regain momentum. A bold act of leadership and imagination by one of the weapons-states could provide it.
The United States’s long-term operations in Helmand and elsewhere in Afghanistan face acute military and political pressures.
The ground-level realities of western military involvement in Afghanistan - including a few dozen soldiers in an isolated base - reveal the intractability of the war.
The deluge of publicity about a large-scale military operation against the Taliban must be set against Afghan realities that tell a different story.
The Barack Obama administration’s plans for subduing the Taliban are endangered by continuing insecurity in Iraq
The American-led effort to map Afghanistan’s future neglects the role of the country’s neighbours – and could yet be derailed by events over Iran.
On the anniversary of Barack Obama’s inauguration as United States president, the al-Qaida movement invites the respected SWISH management consultancy to assess its prospects.
The combination of Iran's effort to protect its nuclear facilities and Israel's to prevent its rival developing a weapon makes a crisis in 2010 all the more likely.
A series of intelligence failures that stretch from Afghanistan to the American heartland reveals the depth of the United States’s strategic predicament at the dawn of 2010.
A near-miss airline attack refocuses attention on al-Qaida's diffused potency, and underlines the depth of Barack Obama's predicament
The persistence of violence in Iraq reopens the question of the impulse of the war unleashed by Washington in 2003 on the Saddam Hussein regime.
The war on terror has been a disaster. But out of its ashes a deeper understanding of global security capable of addressing real 21st-century threats may emerge.
