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Call of Duty: Star Video Game Director Takes Unusual Think Tank Job

Some thoughts about how the Army could better tell its story to the American people

Why doesn't D.C. listen to the field on life-and-death issues?: A medical example

When everyone else gets as much data as we do, how will we prevail in combat?

Democracy Lab Weekly Brief, September 22, 2014

The Arab War on Terror

Obama's Middle East allies are signing up for the fight
against the Islamic State. But it's not for the reason you think.

Can Obama Patch Things Up With Modi? It Might Save His Asia Pivot.

Is Ebola the Beginning of the End of the World?

As deaths rise in
Monrovia and the sick cluster in gutters outside overcrowded treatment centers, many people are turning to God for answers -- and salvation.

What's Wrong With Hong Kong?

Three reasons why China's laboratory for ideas now faces a murky future.

'They Made Us Take the Seat of Death'

Meet a man executed by the Islamic State -- who
survived.