Stories by Gary Brecher

Tribal Plate Tectonics: The Supposed Christian-Muslim Vendetta in West Africa Is a Front for a Much Simpler Story

What the election riots in Northern Nigeria, a military mutiny in Burkina Faso, and massacres in Ivory Coast have in common.

Introducing the new super-weapon that will change absolutely nothing about why we're losing in Afghanistan.

Every single change in technology in the past 50 years has had "Stop building carriers!" written all over it. But the Navy paid no attention.

The failed defense secretary pens a historical cover-up on Iraq and reveals more wild stupidity with his advice on Afghanistan.

Only a fool like Bush could pick an anti-American Arab country, add an invading army, and expect a nice fluffy democracy souffle.

Telling Georgia to keep attacking Russia is like telling a 98-pound weakling to rematch with the hulking thug who just put him on the floor.

The president of tiny Georgia must have caught a case of his pal Bush's war lust to attack a Russian ally and think he'd win.

After six years of ignoring Afghanistan, things have gotten bad enough to force American officials to pay attention.

One thing the United States doesn't get about guerrilla warfare: It's not over until the guerrillas win.

South Africans wouldn't be killing Zimbabwean refugees if it weren't for the stranglehold Zimbabwe's whites have on its farmland.

A bizarre new trend is emerging: traditional armed conquests are increasingly less effective, and countries with high birthrates have the edge.

A week ago, Bush called the offensive in Basra a "defining moment" for Iraq. Suddenly he's gotten very quiet.

From the enormous advantage gained by Iran via our invasion of Iraq, you would think that Dick Cheney is a mole for the Ayatollah.

The Pentagon won't own up to the fact that it takes a village to run an insurgency.