A primer for President Obama so that he is prepared for the next round of political upheavals after setting new standards for foreign policy incoherence and incompetence

BY Michael Schwartz 14 February 2011

Why the U.S. cannot correct its military blunders in Iraq despite its initial successful assault, and the latest American theories about the Iraqi resistance.

BY Michael Schwartz 8 March 2005

Those who are forever trying to figure out what is going on have a good opportunity for diagnostics based on what happens on election day and afterward. Here are a few of the key indicators that we should all be looking at.

BY Michael Schwartz 27 January 2005

The chilling reality of what Fallujah has become is only now seeping out, as the American military continues to block almost all access to the city, whether to reporters, its former residents, or aid groups like the Red Crescent Society.

BY Michael Schwartz 20 December 2004

Our addiction to opinion polls has done more than enhance the already unacceptable power of the media; it has also redirected our attention and efforts away from policy and toward trivial personality contests at a time when much is at stake.

BY Michael Schwartz 6 October 2004

Hidden in the confusion and jumbled mass of new violent outbreaks and conflicting pronouncements by all sides of the Iraqi conflict is an entirely new American military-political strategy that promises to wreak further havoc in the cities of Iraq.

BY Michael Schwartz 26 September 2004

The assault on the holy city of Najaf, with its attendant slaughter of combatants and civilians, its destruction of whole neighborhoods, and its threat to Shia holy cites is fraught with the possibility of another major military defeat.

BY Michael Schwartz 17 August 2004