Articles by Edward N. Luttwak

IT IS PERFECTLY clear why the North Korean dictatorship of Kim Jong Il tests its ballistic missiles after slow and elaborate preparations easily photographed by satellites. Read more

CIVIL WARS can be especially atrocious as neighbors kill each other at close range, but they also have a purpose. Read more

THERE MAY BE good reasons to oppose an air attack on Iran’s nuclear installations at this time, but one of the arguments that is advanced most often is seriously flawed. Read more

IN REJECTING CALLS for a rapid withdrawal from Iraq, President Bush rightly insists that the United States cannot abandon the country to the insurgents – a murderous gathering of Arab Sunni supremacists, Saddam Hussein nostalgics and Salafist terrorists. Read more

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the winner of Iran’s version of a presidential election, has been called conservative, and even ultraconservative. Read more

Like any investigative journalist, Seymour M. Hersh seeks out secrets to uncover and publish. Read more

This may be John Keegan’s weakest book among the 17 he has published, but even Keegan’s least successful is worth reading. Read more

Congress has a rare opportunity to greatly advance the well being of the nation at no cost to the taxpayer, simply by declaring that no government official, high or low, will be blamed or punished for failing to warn of a terrorist attack. Read more

It happened only 24 months ago, but “before-Sept. Read more