Rational Security
List of Rational Security articles
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Win McNamee/Getty Images Drones Are Too Slow to Kill Terrorists
President Obama's magical thinking about how to defeat al Qaeda.
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Wikimedia Glory Day
Remembering the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
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Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images Getting to Yes with the Taliban
The case for negotiating with terrorists.
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DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images Beijing’s ‘Bitskrieg’
How China is revolutionizing warfare.
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Wikimedia The Case for Slow War
History shows that wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am rarely works out for the best.
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Wikimedia How to Defeat Cyber Jihad
Taking the war on terrorism to the Internet.
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STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images Small Cells vs. Big Data
Can information dominance crush terrorism?
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Scott Olson/Getty Images Beware the Few
You can't beat a lone terrorist -- or al Qaeda for that matter -- with shock and awe.
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KNS/AFP/Getty Images Rolling the Iron Dice
Can Kim Jong Un use his nukes and get away with it?
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Wikimedia Would Captain Kirk Intervene in Syria?
What 'Star Trek' teaches us about international relations.
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Alan Gragg/DVIDS Use an Axe, Not a Scalpel
There's no such thing as a surgical strike on a terrorist network.
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Scott Nelson/Getty Images The Illogic of Iraq
Explaining one of history's most egregious strategic non sequiturs.
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Jason Reed-Pool/Getty Images Smaller Is Smarter
Military drawdowns have driven innovation for millennia.
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KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images Caveat Preemptor
How Obama has adopted the Bush doctrine.
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U.S. Army photo/1st Lt. Jonathan J Springer, 2-320th Field Artillery Regiment Real Genius
Does the Pentagon need a creative director?
