03/10/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Russia Created ¨Facts on the Ground¨ in Syria
WASHINGTON -- Russia's expanded role in the Middle East has been hiding in plain sight for months. And the Obama administration, eager for Moscow's diplomatic help, all but invited it. Now that Russian jets and tanks have arrived in Syria, this intervention doesn't look so benign.
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04/10/2014 | En Parrilla
Opinion - Foreign nations¨ proxy war in Syria creates chaos
The squabbling factions that make up the Syrian “moderate opposition” should get their act together. But so should the foreign nations — such as the United States, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Jordan — that have been funding the chaotic melange of fighters inside Syria. These foreign machinations helped open the door for the terrorist Islamic State group to threaten the region.
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21/12/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Iran’s hard-liners resist nuclear deal
Hossein Shariatmadari’s business card identifies him as the “Supreme Leader’s Representative” at Kayhan, Iran’s leading conservative newspaper. Listening to his unwavering advocacy of Iran’s revolutionary politics, you realize just how hard it will be to reach the nuclear agreement that many Iranians I talked with here seem to want.
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26/10/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Opinion - The U.S.-Saudi crackup reaches a dramatic tipping point
The strange thing about the crackup in U.S.-Saudi relations is that it has been on the way for more than two years, like a slow-motion car wreck, but nobody in Riyadh or Washington has done anything decisive to avert it.
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16/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Syria, shattered
The world still talks about Syria as if it’s a single country, but some members of the Syrian opposition are beginning to discuss the reality that Syria today is effectively partitioned — complicating any negotiated solution to the conflict.
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15/12/2012 | Frente Externo
The case for John Kerry as secretary of state
What kind of secretary of state would Sen. John Kerry make? That’s the question of the moment after U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s surprise decision Thursday to withdraw her name from consideration, making Kerry the likely nominee.
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27/07/2012 | Frente Externo
Middle East - Syria (Opinion): The ‘day after’ in Syria
It is time for Washington to emphasize what the United States can do, rather than what it can’t, in Syria. U.S. policy is caught between two imperatives: President Bashar al-Assad must go, and the killing must stop. But while Assad’s government will probably fall, it is also a near-certainty that the killing will continue — with the United States and its allies trying to limit the collateral damage. The Obama administration should try to prevent the humanitarian crisis from spreading to other countries, even as it helps plan the reconstruction of Syria.
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27/06/2012 | Frente Externo
Middle East - Syria (Opinion): The ‘day after’ in Syria
It is time for Washington to emphasize what the United States can do, rather than what it can’t, in Syria. U.S. policy is caught between two imperatives: President Bashar al-Assad must go, and the killing must stop. But while Assad’s government will probably fall, it is also a near-certainty that the killing will continue — with the United States and its allies trying to limit the collateral damage. The Obama administration should try to prevent the humanitarian crisis from spreading to other countries, even as it helps plan the reconstruction of Syria.
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10/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Libyan missiles on the loose
Whenever the CIA uncovers a new plot overseas, like al-Qaeda’s latest scheme to blow up civilian aircraft using advanced, hard-to-detect explosives, people breathe a sigh of relief. But this is a multifront war, and almost by definition, the attack that gets you is the one you didn’t see coming.
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20/08/2011 | Frente Externo
An uncertain Arab transition
American intelligence analysts, like most U.S. observers, have often referred to the process unfolding in the Middle East as the “Arab Spring,” with its implicit message of democratic birth and freedom. But some senior analysts are said to have argued for a more neutral term, such as “Arab transition” — which conveys the essential truth that nobody can predict just where this upheaval is heading.
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01/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
U.S. dilemma in Iraq: What to do with a Hezbollah killer
Of all the leftover business for the Obama administration as U.S. troops prepare to leave Iraq at the end of the year, nothing is more symbolic of the continuing threats there — and throughout the region — than the case of a Lebanese Hezbollah operative named Ali Mussa Daqduq.
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23/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drone attacks in Libya: A mistake
Drone attacks have become an addictive tool of U.S. national security policy, as illustrated by Thursday’s unfortunate announcement that President Obama has authorized their use in Libya.
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23/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drone attacks in Libya: A mistake
Drone attacks have become an addictive tool of U.S. national security policy, as illustrated by Thursday’s unfortunate announcement that President Obama has authorized their use in Libya.
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19/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - The next national security team
Economists theorize about an optimal position on the “welfare curve” — a balance that, if changed, will make things worse. President Obama may feel the same way as he contemplates the coming round of changes to his national security team.
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19/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - The next national security team
Economists theorize about an optimal position on the “welfare curve” — a balance that, if changed, will make things worse. President Obama may feel the same way as he contemplates the coming round of changes to his national security team.
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01/03/2011 | Frente Externo
Even in Syria, delaying political reform could be fatal
The rise and fall of a protest demonstration in Damascus recently shows that Syrians share the yearning for dignity that’s sweeping the Arab world – and also illustrates why President Bashar Assad so far hasn’t been threatened by this tide of anger.
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18/02/2011 | Frente Externo
In Egypt, real politics is about to begin
There's still a glow of liberation here, a week after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Young activists hand out flowers to visitors at the airport, and there is exuberant flag-waving at night in Tahrir Square. But already you can see the political cleavages that will test this young revolution.
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04/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Managing new-age weapons amid old-age wars
A light-bulb moment for me last year was hearing a Chinese defense expert named Dingli Shen in Shanghai talk about the future of warfare.
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22/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How about a leaner and meaner intelligence system?
"There needs to be a revolution in the intelligence community, not an evolution," says Henry Crumpton, a former top CIA counterterrorism officer who now runs a company that invests in intelligence contractors. "You need to cut back in dramatic ways and empower people in the field," he says. "We've just been throwing money at the problem," producing a "breathtaking lack of coordination."
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06/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The real danger in makeshift bombs
The Times Square bomb attempt is a snapshot of the future, say U.S. counterterrorism experts: It was a makeshift plot by a new generation of terrorists that was thwarted by a combination of high-tech surveillance and vigilant citizens. This is the world we will be living in for some years, and we can only hope that other Americans will be as sensible as New York hot dog vendors.
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18/03/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
When the CIA's intelligence-gathering isn't enough
The headline read like something you might see in the conspiracy-minded Pakistani press: "Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants." But the story appeared in Monday's New York Times, and it highlighted some big problems that have developed in the murky area between military and intelligence activities.
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21/10/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Danger Point In Spy Reform
The most dangerous moment in any transition is halfway through, when the old structure is badly weakened but the new one isn't yet strong enough to carry the load. That's where the Bush administration stands in its incomplete effort to restructure the intelligence community.
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