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NEW YORK, AUGUST 3 On one day, the papers ran an obituary on an American flyer who in 1943 shot down the plane carrying Admiral Yamamoto from a Japanese base [...]

WHEN Western leaders try to deal with the problem of Bosnia, a terrible dilemma confronts them. Is it desirable to try to keep together an artificial grouping of nationalities that [...]

The impulse to leave foreign affairs to the foreigners has gained strength from the Soviet breakup, Saddam's survival, and our own economy. But before we come home, we should ask: [...]

THERE has been much activity since the series of terror attacks in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in February and March: the anti-terrorism summit of chiefs of state, including President Clinton, [...]

SECRETARY of State Christopher's stormy visits to Tokyo and Peking lead to reflections on the development of the Asia-Pacific region. In the last twenty years the extraordinary economic boom there [...]

President Clinton's Secretary of Defense is leading the Pentagon away from the stately measures of the Weinberger era into a wild and crazy global dance. BILL CLINTON came to Washington [...]

THE reaction of the Arab street to the war in Iraq is well documented. But what the street says depends on which side of it is polled. The post-war optimism [...]

NEW YORK, AUGUST 10 SIX months ago I ventured in this space that the Democratic position on the war in Iraq was the single most critical question in U.S. politics. [...]

According to much post-war commentary, the Iraqi Republican Guard wasn't the only force decisively routed during Operation Iraqi Freedom: From coast to coast, editorial writers declare that the experiences of [...]

Most of the world's TV stations broadcast images of toppling Saddam statues. Not in Syria, though: When the Iraqi regime fell, Syrian TV suddenly changed its format and broadcast history [...]

Palestine: Essays in Democracy NEW YORK, JULY 26 It has been a month since President Bush announced that Arafat needed to be removed before the United States could acknowledge Palestine [...]

Moral clarity, it seems, is always in danger when the U.S. foreign- policy establishment gets around to addressing the issue of Saudi Arabia. Documents of indisputable authenticity, captured by Israel [...]

-- So, who's the worst ex-president? A question to give you a heheadache. -- If the Bush administration's foray into Middle East peace-making isis an elaborate deception, as some clever [...]

When President Bush made clear that the next campaigns in the war on terror would focus on states developing weapons of mass destruction, the skeptical refrain instantly emerged: 'Don't expect [...]

On Getting to Know Our Past Presidents NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 2 Mr. bush has signed an executive order that assigns to sitting presidents the authority to hold back the publication [...]

Before his election in November 1992, Bill Clinton spoke of the Middle East peace process as if it were a cooing infant: 'I think that we have to give this [...]

Ten years have passed since President Bush spoke of a New World Order. His optimism was fueled by the fall of Soviet Communism, and military success in containing Saddam Hussein's [...]

WHAT'S WRONG WITH NUCLEAR SUPERIORITY? 'SOMETIME SOON,' Michael Kinsley wrote in the May 12 issue of The New Republic, 'an influential conservative journal like Commentary or Policy Review (or perhaps [...]

RESCUING THE MILITARY TIME WAS WHEN critics of the military all sounded more or less like George McGovern. You could get a dose of vintage McGovern as recently as two [...]

How To Decide About THE IDEA of a 'space shield,' a largely space-based defense against nuclear attack, was unknown to most Americans before President Reagan tentatively endorsed it in a [...]

IN the wake of the May 31 House of Commons debate on the hostage crisis in Bosnia, the British media and political class indulged in an orgy of self-congratulation. Supposedly, [...]

AT THIS writing, the world awaits the decision by the parliament of the Bosnian Serbs whether to ratify the Vance-Owen peace plan which their leader, Radovan Karadzic, was persuaded to [...]

BORIS YELTSIN went West to prove that, as a statesman, he could outshine even Mikhail Gorbachev. He wanted to make clear that he is a new kind of Russian leader, [...]

THE New York Times, which seems to have a vocation for obtaining stolen Pentagon documents, has come up with another one-and doesn't like what it sees. 'Defense Planning Guidance for [...]

FOR THE TACTICIAN the desert is heaven. For the logistician it is hell.' This is the conclusion of General Ali Belal, the amiable commander of Egypt's forty-thousand-man force in Saudi [...]

THE DEMOCRATS' ZERO OPTIONS SAY YOU'RE A Democrat, a memberof the 100th Congress, and you've been pummeling the Reagan Administration for the past six years for failing to come up [...]

How the Gipper conceived Star Wars. On the eve of Ronald Reagan's election as fortieth president of the United States, a reporter asked him what Americans saw in him. Reagan [...]

The current North Korean regime guarantees crisis after crisis. Nicholas Eberstadt is a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute and Harvard University. His many books include the forthcoming End of [...]

TO RATIFY OR NOT TO RATIFY? IT LOOKS as if Ronald Reagan will sign an arms-control deal with the Soviets this year, one that would eliminate short- and intermediate-range nuclear [...]

Muddle TAKE HAROLD BROWN, Melvin Laird, Brent Scowcroft, James Schlesinger, and Cyrus Vance. Shake them together in a bottle and pour out the least common denominator of their weakest thinking [...]

The Murder of SALT II SALT II is dead. European governments and popular media throughout the world have convened a kangaroo tribunal to try and pillory the murderer, whom they [...]

RED, DEAD, OR NEITHER IN APRIL 1945, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson briefed the new President, Harry Truman, about a secret program: 'Within four months we shall in all [...]

SPIEGEL REVISITED THE COLLAPSE of the Soviet system no longer being necessarily a remote prospect, there is some intellectual excitement in speculating about the secret archives that might, at that [...]