Making a State by Blood and Iron
Foreign Policy
August 19, 2015
Britain built an empire on the slave trade. Germany perpetrated the greatest genocide in human history. Who says the Islamic State won’t be a U.S. ally someday?
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Rosa's articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other newspapers and magazines.
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Book review: ‘Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice,’ by John A. Nagl
The Washington Post
November 28, 2014
In the U.S. military, as in the fashion world, there are trends and fads, and woe betide the poor sap still clad in last season’s styles.
READ MOREWhy Obama’s assurance of ‘no boots on the ground’ isn’t so reassuring
The Washington Post
September 26, 2014
Each time I hear President Obama assure us that there will be “no boots on the ground” in Iraq or Syria, I think of my husband’s Army boots, lying in a heap in the corner of the downstairs study.
READ MORETime for a Woman to Run the Pentagon
The Wall Street Journal
August 22, 2014
The U.S. could well have its first female president before its first female defense secretary.
READ MOREA Call to Rally
The New York Times
June 26, 2014
Somewhere along the long, bumpy road of human evolution — between the emergence of Davos Man and the TEDification of everything — a new breed of journalist emerged, specially adapted to the corporatized landscape of the modern media biome.
READ MOREU.S. should take lead on setting global norms for drone strikes
The Washington Post
June 26, 2014
To understand why U.S. drone strikes outside traditional battlefields make so many people so uneasy, look to the past and look to the future.
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