Joshua Foust

The NATO defense collective wants to do less with more by having member states develop military specialties, like workers on an assembly line.… More »

An attempted terrorist attack this week has been bookended by U.S. drone strikes in Yemen. Do we know they're effective?… More »

A year after bin Laden's death, we still often talk about his group's successful or failure in somewhat exaggerated terms. The truth may in fact be somewhere in the middle.… More »

Traditional aid programs are struggling in the country. But a less conventional program with less conventional goals seems to show a better model.… More »

Uzbekistan is now paying its teachers and doctors in poultry, part of a long and bizarre trend of chicken diplomacy in the 20th and 21st centuries.… More »

Developing and stabilizing a war-torn nation is about more than just military operations.… More »

From Vietnam to Afghanistan, 12-month deployments and institutional norms have made long-term planning more difficult.… More »

The Kyrgyz leader does not seem terribly interested in being Russia's proxy in Central Asia.… More »

Twice as many civilians die in Mexico's conflict, a reminder that we still haven't established a standard for who merits outside assistance and when.… More »

A new terrorist group threatens to destabilize a U.S. military installation in the central Asian republic.… More »

The country's ascent to the World Trade Organization is an opportunity to help U.S. businesses and continue ramping down tensions still leftover from the Cold War.… More »

Welcome to Zomia, the little-governed and misunderstood stretch from Afghanistan to Vietnam.… More »

Even if toppling Qaddafi made sense on its own terms, the Western campaign will make it far harder to do any good for Syria.… More »

Why we should start thinking more about politics, and less about killing bad guys… More »

It's easy and maybe right to decry their use, but drones are just a tool in larger effort.… More »

For all the fears of Chinese expansionism westward, the rising power doesn't actually seem to be doing all that much… More »

The only real question: By what margin will tyrant Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov rig the vote?… More »

Officials often portray the global expansion of deadly drone strikes as an unequivocal success. But are we really accounting for all the consequences?… More »

Why are outside analysts so ready to see a nascent Kazakh uprising that isn't really there?… More »

The U.S. has been increasingly active in these former Soviet satellites, but Russian influence is still a major force… More »