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Shooting Down Missile Defense
Even the Pentagon admits the program is in trouble.  
Fred Kaplan   Aug 07, 2003   War Stories  
The Pentagon's Laughable Weapons Test
Fire missile. Miss target completely. Success!  
Fred Kaplan   Jun 20, 2003   War Stories  
Whose Missile Shield Is It, Anyway?
Now we're talking about putting expensive, useless interceptors in Europe.  
Fred Kaplan   May 23, 2006   War Stories  
Gates Follows Through
The Pentagon is finally cutting expensive weapons programs it doesn't need.  
Fred Kaplan   Apr 06, 2009   War Stories  
The Rumsfeld Intelligence Agency
How the hawks plan to find a Saddam/al-Qaida connection.  
Fred Kaplan   Oct 28, 2002   War Stories  
Star Wars Spending Spree
Billions for Missile Defense, peanuts for anti-terrorism.  
Fred Kaplan   Nov 07, 2002   War Stories  
Can This Department Be Saved?
How to secure homeland security.  
Fred Kaplan   Nov 22, 2002   War Stories  
Shooting Down the Hype
The satellite takedown doesn't prove anything about our missile-defense capability.  
Fred Kaplan   Feb 22, 2008   War Stories  
Missile Defense: Mission Unaccomplished
When will Bush stop throwing billions at a failing project?  
Fred Kaplan   Sep 17, 2004   War Stories  
Calling Out Colin
What Powell got wrong in his U.N. briefing on Iraq.  
Fred Kaplan   Aug 12, 2003   War Stories  
Shoot-Down
The Pentagon trashes Bush's missile defense plans.  
Fred Kaplan   Feb 21, 2003   War Stories  
Build It and It Will Work
The Bush administration's missile defense fantasy.  
Fred Kaplan   May 22, 2003   War Stories  
The Pyongyang Candidate
Hwang Jang Yop is North Korea's Ahmad Chalabi.  
Fred Kaplan   Oct 30, 2003   War Stories  
Red Herrings
Can the CIA be saved?  
Fred Kaplan   Jul 09, 2004   War Stories  
Guns in Space
What's the point of putting weapons in orbit?  
Chris Wilson   Feb 13, 2008   Explainer  
Washington's Latest Missile-Defense Blunder
Let's hope North Korea backs down soon.  
Michael A. Levi   Jun 28, 2006   War Stories  
House Democrats Back Down
The military budget is as bloated as ever.  
Fred Kaplan   May 10, 2007   War Stories  
Trimming the Fat
How to put the military budget on a diet.  
Fred Kaplan   Feb 03, 2004   War Stories  
Bush's Latest Missile-Defense Folly
Why spend billions on a system that might never work?  
Fred Kaplan   Mar 12, 2004   War Stories  
Our Hidden WMD Program
Why Bush is spending so much on nuclear weapons.  
Fred Kaplan   Apr 23, 2004   War Stories  
We're Losing the Arms Race With North Korea
What's the optimal number of anti-missile missiles? None.  
Fred Kaplan   Jul 27, 2004   War Stories  
Just Another "Unknown Anomaly"
Must we spend another $80 billion before we admit missile defense doesn't work?  
Fred Kaplan   Dec 16, 2004   War Stories  
Bush Flunks Diplomacy 101
How to infuriate Russia and the European Union and waste $10 billion a year.  
Fred Kaplan   Apr 23, 2007   War Stories  
More Missile-Defense Madness
Bush's latest ploy for a system we don't even need.  
Fred Kaplan   Feb 20, 2003   War Stories  
The North Korean Solution
What's so bad about Kim's latest offer?  
Fred Kaplan   Apr 28, 2003   War Stories  
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