Rational Security
List of Rational Security articles
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-/AFP/Getty Images Saving Syria — and Ourselves
America needs to plot a middle path for military intervention.
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Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty Images/Wikimedia The Syrian Abyss
What Nietzsche would say about striking Assad.
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Spencer Platt/Getty Images Arsenal of Hypocrisy
No matter where you look in the world, American words don't match American deeds.
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Wikimedia Outfoxing Beats Outgunning
What we can learn from one of the most brilliant deceptions of World War II.
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Reynaldo Ramon/US Air Force via Getty Images Last War Standing
Why preemption is the only thing that can keep America safe.
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Flickr/OSD The Pentagon’s Ten-Percent Solution
The sequester isn't a problem if you know what to cut.
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Flickr The ABCs of Strategy
Everything you need to know about war is in children's books.
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Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Wilson/DVIDS Why Iraq Was America’s Best-Run War
But that doesn't make it a model.
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MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images History of the World, Part Z
What the undead can teach us about the fall of Rome -- and cyberwar.
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STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images How Chess Explains the World
And predicts the rise and fall of nations.
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Wikimedia Founding Insurgents
What today's military could learn from George Washington.
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Michael Klimentyev/AFP/Getty Images Mitt Romney Was Right
Russia's our No. 1 enemy -- and Snowden's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Ethan Miller/Getty Images Could Killer Robots Bring World Peace?
We're breaking Isaac Asimov's First Law -- and it could be good for humanity.
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PO1 Joshua Wahl/DVIDS How to Protect Yourself from the Online Axis of Evil
What has happened to the notion of cyberdefense?
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Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images In Defense of PRISM
How else can we smoke terrorists out of their hidey holes?
