By Other Means

No Girls Allowed

Why the Obama administration needs hormone therapy.

BY ROSA BROOKS | JANUARY 8, 2013

Flournoy for SecDef

Ten reasons the president should ditch Chuck for Michèle.

BY ROSA BROOKS | DECEMBER 26, 2012

Elephant Man

Four reasons why Obama should not send Hagel to the Pentagon.

BY ROSA BROOKS | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Known Unknowns

Why even bad predictions are good for America.

BY ROSA BROOKS | DECEMBER 13, 2012

Confessions of a Strategic Communicator

Tales from inside the Pentagon's message machine.

BY ROSA BROOKS | DECEMBER 6, 2012

You Can Have It All … Once Your Kids Are in College

Why working men still rule Washington.

BY ROSA BROOKS | NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On Pilgrims and Zionists

Why I’m thankful America didn’t turn out like Israel.

BY ROSA BROOKS | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Sex and the Modern Soldier

Just how bad is the military's woman problem?

BY ROSA BROOKS | NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Forward!

Time for some foreign policy change we can believe in.

BY ROSA BROOKS | NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Red Herring

The myth of the Republican military voter.

BY ROSA BROOKS | NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Jerks vs. Waterboarders

The best reason to pick Obama over Romney.

BY ROSA BROOKS | OCTOBER 25, 2012

The Case for Intervention...

In Obama's dysfunctional foreign-policy team.

BY ROSA BROOKS | OCTOBER 18, 2012

Uniformity

Why are all these advocacy groups aligning themselves with the military?

BY ROSA BROOKS | OCTOBER 11, 2012

Warning: Idealism Can Kill You

(And a lot of other people.)

BY ROSA BROOKS | OCTOBER 3, 2012

No Army for Young Men

Soldiers these days need less muscle and more maturity, so why do we still focus on recruiting 18-year-olds?

BY ROSA BROOKS | SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Shadow Wars

What's the difference between a spook and a special operator?

BY ROSA BROOKS | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Take Two Drones and Call Me in the Morning

The perils of our addiction to remote-controlled war.

BY ROSA BROOKS | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

What's Not Wrong With Drones?

The wildly overblown case against remote-controlled war. 

BY ROSA BROOKS | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

All the Pentagon's Lawyers

One man's targeted strike is another man's state-sanctioned murder.

BY ROSA BROOKS | AUGUST 29, 2012

Highway Robbery

Why do Mitt Romney and Barack Obama want to hand over so much of your money to men with guns?

BY ROSA BROOKS | AUGUST 22, 2012

The Pivot to Africa

Circumcision, mosquito killing, and other strange doings of Africom.

BY ROSA BROOKS | AUGUST 16, 2012

Fog of War

How can we talk about the military if we can't define what it is?

BY ROSA BROOKS | AUGUST 8, 2012

Thought Cloud

The real problem with the civilian-military gap.

BY ROSA BROOKS | AUGUST 2, 2012

Generals Are from Mars, Their Bosses Are from Venus

But does the civilian-military gap really matter?

BY ROSA BROOKS | JULY 25, 2012

Welfare State

Meet America's socialist military.

BY ROSA BROOKS | JULY 19, 2012