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U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Andrew Natsios told an IWP audience about how bilateral foreign aid is now a pillar of American national security strategy.

One would not have anticipated that Solzhenitsyn’s monumental expose of the system of Soviet prisons and concentration camps, published over two decades ago, could ever be outdone.Yet Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History, astonishingly enough, succeeds.

Consider the Chilean revolution of that other September 11 — Sept. 11, 1973. It was less bloody than any other major 20th century revolution and, in economic and political terms it produced the best outcome. And yet, it is the most reviled of any in all the annals of Latin America.

There can be no Revolution in Military Affairs without a Revolution in Defense Intelligence. There can be no Revolution in Defense Intelligence without a Revolution in Defense Counterintelligence.

Some governments involved with proliferation might see the North Korean talks as an end in themselves. So long as we are negotiating, they hope, Washington can hardly risk killing the talks by taking any adverse actions (e.g., terminating the reactors, interdicting weapons-related shipments, identifying Pyongyang at the U.N. as an NPT violator and possibly sanctioning it there,…

There is much more than meets the eye about the 2003 controversy surrounding the forged documents about Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Africa.

Following the demise of the Soviet Union, the United States has remained the only superpower standing. Nonetheless, it faces several challenges including rogue, so-called “terrorist” states, a potentially menacing China, a broodingly resentful Russia, and a vexingly enigmatic European Union (EU). Although perfectly capable of defending its own territory, America’s foreign entanglements and commitments continuously…

A year-long series of conferences, dedicated to the memory of former Director of Central Intelligence William J. Casey, is a major IWP forum from which to discuss ways to improve U.S. intelligence capabilities.

The United States has rarely resorted to strategic deception, even when appropriate opportunities for its use have occurred and even though its adversaries have used it. The U.S. tends to view deception as unacceptable; yet, used knowledgeably and artfully, it can be a powerful, economic, and sometimes decisive instrument. Deception is an exceptional instrument of…

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the regional accrediting body for colleges and universities, has granted “Candidate for Accreditation Status” to The Institute of World Politics.