Eliot A. Cohen

April 19, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz

GOP foreign policy elites don’t know whether they’ll serve if Trump is president

When the Republican foreign policy elite gets together these days, conversation quickly veers from challenges such as the Islamic State or North Korea to focus on two questions. How has Donald Tr...

January 30, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Iran and Diplomacy vs. Engagement

‘Iran’s rulers are not open to engagement no matter what mix of carrots and sticks are offered.” Peter Beinart, a contributing editor of The Atlantic, attributed that r...

September 21, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Cheney Got It Right on Syrian Nukes

The CIA and Bob Woodward got it wrong.

September 16, 2011 | John Hannah |

The Right Call on the Syrian Threat

Co-authored by Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, and Eric Edelman Bob Woodward...

June 23, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Obama’ s Teachable Moment: Getting to Know the General

Rolling Stone’s piece on The Runaway General hit the web, and presto! before the print edition was even on the newsstands, Gen. Stanley McChrystal was ordered back to Washington for a sitdo...

September 13, 2006 | The National Interest

Books: Some Unconventional Wisdom

Ian Bremmer, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 320 pp., $26.00. Charles Peña, Winning the Un-War: A New Strate...

August 27, 2003 | Clifford D. May

The Big Picture

The war liberated millions. But the post-war period proved difficult. Members of the former regime went underground and continued to fight, using terrorist tactics – even against their fell...

May 21, 2003 | Clifford D. May

The Fire Next Time

Is the War on Terrorism a real war? If this is the real thing – not just a metaphorical war like the War on Poverty or the War on Drugs – you have to expect real casualties; you can&#...

May 7, 2003 | Clifford D. May |

Fork in the Road Map

It happened 55 years ago. Israel had declared its independence on May 14th, 1948 and was immediately invaded by Arab armies intent on strangling the infant nation in its cradle....

May 1, 2003 | Clifford D. May

A Battle Is Won

President Bush's address to the nation Thursday night was more than just an inspired photo op and a tribute to the troops. It also was a welcome elaboration of the president's vision of...