Civilian Casualties Create New Enemies, Study Confirms
Yes, we needed economists to tell us this. A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds “strong evidence for a revenge effect” when examining the relationship between...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Hasn’t Broken U.S. Intelligence. Yet.
It’s not just Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The head of the National Counterterrorism Center also took a measured response to this week’s ongoing disgorgement of U.S. diplomatic cables from...
View ArticleLet’s Stop Panicking Over Half-Assed Terrorists Already
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab couldn’t manage to blow up a plane over Detroit last Christmas, kicking off a year’s worth of high-profile terror-fails. But that hasn’t stopped the U.S. government from...
View Article‘Hot War’ Erupting With Iran, Top Terror-Watchers Warn
There have been acts of sabotage, assassinations, explosions, and cyberattack. But the increasingly violent shadow war between the U.S., Israel, Iran, and its allies hasn't yet hit targets on American...
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