Current
Buried Treasure, The Lookout, 3.7.10
Friend or Foe? The American Legion Magazine, 3.1.10
Change, Continuity or Both? Fraser Forum, 3.1.10
March 2010 Rapid Fire: The MOVE Act
Casualties Count, The Landing Zone, 2.18.10
February 2010 Rapid Fire: A Special Homecoming
Amiss on Missile Defense, The Landing Zone, 1.15.10
New Year, Old Problems, The Landing Zone, 1.3.10
World War 2.0, The American Legion Magazine, 1.1.10
January 2010 Rapid Fire: Freedom's Voice
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Faith
It Is I, byFaith, Winter 2009
Speaking Creatively, The Lookout, 11.1.09
Lust: A Life and Death Matter, byFaith, Fall 2009
Moving Day: From Apathy to Action, The Lookout, 8.23.09
A La Carte Christianity, The Lookout, 6.14.09
Courageous Cowards, byFaith, 4.8.09
Stolen Blessings, The Lookout, 11.9.08
The Lord's Unanswered Prayer, byFaith, Fall 2008
For Such a Time As This, Light and Life, 9.1.08
A Time To Move On, The Lookout, 8.31.08
A Necessary Good, The Lookout, 6.29.08
A Parable for Troubled Times, The Plain Truth, May/June 2008
A Higher Purpose for Higher Education, byFaith, 5.1.08
From Noah to the Net, The Lookout, 4.27.08
Woe to Wealth? byFaith, 2.1.08
Life Support, The Lookout, 1.20.08
The First Coming, The Lookout, 12.23.07
Religious Right and Wrong, TCSDaily, 12.13.07
Fill-In Fathers, byFaith, 8.1.07/9.1.07
Purple People, The Lookout, 7.1.07
The Widow's Might, The Lookout, 4.15.07
Half-Life: Pushing Back against the Darkness, The Lookout, 1.21.07
A Fish Out of Water, The Lookout, 12.10.06
Here We Go Again, FrontPage Magazine, 9.20.06
A Purpose-Driven Military? The American Legion Magazine, 9.1.06
Martha's Moment, The Lookout, 5.14.06
Faith in America, American Enterprise Online, 4.24.06
The Benefit of Doubt, Light & Life, 3.1.06
Death to Cartoonists! American Enterprise Online, 2.8.06
Bethlehem and Beijing, American Enterprise Online, 12.25.05
Life Lessons, American Enterprise Online, 4.5.05
Checking Your Spiritual Pulse, The Lookout 4.4.04
Caiaphas, Pilate and Me, RelevantMagazine.com, 3.18.04
Baby Steps: Roe at 31, Light & Life 2.1.04
Snapshots of God, Psalms of September: A Collection 9.1.03
Coming to Jesus, Psalms of September: A Collection 9.1.03
When Adam Wept, The Plain Truth 3.1.03
A National Sabbath, American Outlook 11.1.02
Standing at the Crossroads, The Lookout 9.8.02
Capital Punishment: Is Justice Being Served? Light & Life, 9.1.02
Our National Sabbath, National Review Online 8.15.02
Pontius Pilate: The First Postmodernist? The Plain Truth 4.1.02
The Psalms of September, The Lookout, Light & Life, The Plain Truth 1.1.02
Saying Yes, Indianapolis News 5.28.99
Killing to Punish Killing, Endeavor 10.1.96
Foreign Policy
Friend or Foe? The American Legion Magazine, 3.1.10
The Exit Strategy President, FrontPage Magazine, 12.10.09
A Freedom Problem, The American Legion Magazine, 11.1.09
Hope Is a Foreign Policy, FrontPage Magazine, 10.2.09
A Very Cold War? Military Officer, 9.1.09
Obama Learns Foreign Disagreements Come with Presidency, The Detroit News, 7.14.09
Taking Action in the Arctic, Fraser Forum, 4.1.09
What the World Wants (and What It Will Get), Doublethink Online, 12.22.08
No Longer a Forgotten Continent, Doublethink Online, 12.8.08
Red Christmas, The American Legion Magazine, 12.1.08
The Lonely Path, Fraser Forum, 10.1.08
West Can't Ignore Russian Aggression in Georgia, The Landing Zone, 8.11.08
Russia's Arctic Claims Get Cold Reception from U.S., Canada, The Landing Zone, 8.4.08
A Well-Intentioned but Flawed Court, World Politics Review, 7.1.08
Elements of the Bush Doctrine Will Outlive the Bush Presidency, World Politics Review, 5.5.08
Storm Warning in South America, FrontPage Magazine, 3.7.08
A Cold Peace, The American Legion Magazine, 3.1.08
Brownout? From Blair to Brown, The American Legion Magazine, 12.1.07
Destroying the Nation-State, FrontPage Magazine, 11.6.07
A Friend in France, The American Legion Magazine, 10.1.07
Propaganda Coup, FrontPage Magazine, 9.25.07
Red Relapse, The American Legion Magazine, 6.1.07
An Independent Kosovo? FrontPage Magazine, 5.22.07
The Price of Piracy, FrontPage Magazine, 4.4.07
Full Circle, FrontPage Magazine, 1.12.07
The Bush Administration: Act III, FrontPage Magazine, 1.5.07
New World Disorder, American Enterprise Online, 7.3.06
Canada Reawakens, The American Legion Magazine, 7.1.06
The Pale-Blue Yonder, American Enterprise Online, 6.19.06
Fighting Words, American Enterprise Online, 5.29.06
Neither Friend Nor Foe, American Enterprise Online, 4.10.06
China's Secret Gulags: An Interview with Harry Wu, The American Legion Magazine, 4.1.06
Vacancy at The Hague Hotel, American Enterprise Online, 3.20.06
Blowback, American Enterprise Online, 3.13.06
Patience Pays Off? The Baltimore Sun, 3.7.06
The World Watches and Wonders, American Enterprise Online, 2.21.06
Mulligan in the Middle East, American Enterprise Online, 2.13.06
Democratic Disaster? American Enterprise Online, 1.30.06
Canada: Don’t Tread on Us, American Enterprise Online, 1.23.06
Bethlehem and Beijing, American Enterprise Online, 12.25.05
Weapons of Mass Protection, The American Legion Magazine, 8.1.05
Wartime Politics, American Enterprise Online, 6.1.05
We Stand on Guard for Thee? The American Enterprise, April/May 2005
An Alliance of Indifference and Annoyance, American Enterprise Online 2.23.05
A Plank in Europe's Eye, American Enterprise Online 12.14.04
A Frothing of Words, American Enterprise Online 12.1.04
Finishing al Qaeda, American Enterprise Online 11.3.04
A Different Course? Parameters Autumn 2004
Continental Rift, The American Legion Magazine 7.1.04
Bill Clinton's Multilateral Fairy Tale, Wall Street Journal Europe 7.30.04
An Old Perspective on Iraq, American Enterprise Online 6.30.04
Bush's Voice, American Enterprise Online 6.16.04
The Next Secretary of State, American Enterprise Online 5.19.04
America's Doctrine, American Outlook Spring 2004
Tied Down, The American Legion Magazine 5.1.04
Time to Play Good Cop, American Enterprise Online, 12.19.03
Coming UN-done, The American Enterprise 12.1.03
Thirteen Years, Parameters 9.1.03
Exporting Civil Society, The World & I 7.1.03
Beyond Baghdad, The American Legion Magazine 7.1.03
America's Other Special Relationship, American Outlook 7.1.03
Baghdad and Beyond, National Review Online 4.10.03
The New NATO, The American Legion Magazine 4.1.03
No Third Act, Tech Central Station, 3.20.03
UN R.I.P., Financial Times Deutschland, American Enterprise Online, 3.10.03
Churchill's Echo, Tech Central Station, 3.5.03
In Search of Monsters to Destroy, The World & I 1.1.03
Words of War, National Review Online 12.5.02
NATO's Next Mission, National Review Online 11.20.02
Worlds Apart, The American Legion Magazine 8.1.02
A Colder War, The World & I 7.1.02
Order Outside the Court, American Outlook Today 5.14.02
The NATO Summit: Big Deal or Big Mistake? Washington Times 6.12.01
Legacy of Weakness, Washington Times 1.15.01
Photo-op Foreign Policy, Jerusalem Post 10.24.00
NATO After Kosovo, Policy Review 12.1.99/1.1.00
Life after Yeltsin, Indianapolis News 9.28.99
NATO Turns 50, Indianapolis News 3.5.99
Christmas in China, Indianapolis News 12.18.98
A Closer Look at the UN Treaty on Child Rights, Indianapolis News 4.29.96
Reconsidering the CSCE (Part I), Hudson Briefing Paper 2.1.95
Reconsidering the CSCE (Part II), Hudson Briefing Paper 2.1.95
A Pattern of Failure, Endeavor 9.30.94
The Paradox of Clinton Foreign Policy, Indianapolis Star 1.17.94
How America Can Ease Russia's Economic Woes, Indianapolis Star 4.2.93
History
The Tricentennial: America at 300, The American Legion Magazine, 8.1.09
No Better Friend, The Weekly Standard Online, 2.10.09
Is Empire a Dirty Word? The American Legion Magazine, 2.1.09
Decline and Conquer? Military Officer, 1.1.09
Another August Crisis: Learning from Bush 41, World Politics Review, 8.12.08
The Good Old Days, The Weekly Standard Online, 2.29.08
The Decline and Fall of Declinism, The American Magazine Online, 8.28.07
Declinism, Policy Review, 8.1.07/9.1.07; RealClearPolitics, 8.27.07
Mind the Transatlantic Gap, FrontPage Magazine, 1.30.07
"This Meeting Is Over:" America's Leading Man Ends the Cold War, TCSDaily, 10.13.06
Rising Declinists, TCSDaily, 5.10.06
Polls and Presidents, The Weekly Standard Online, 3.30.06
Take Some Presidential Advice, National Review Online, 2.20.06
Diagnosing America’s Decline, American Enterprise Online, 2.6.06
Red, White and Bruised, The American Enterprise, 12.1.05
"American Decline" (Again), The American Enterprise 6.1.05
Arguing about America's Decline, American Enterprise Online 2.9.05
Missing Pieces, The American Legion Magazine 11.1.04
Rhyme and Reason, American Enterprise Online 9.22.04
Continental Rift, The American Legion Magazine 7.1.04
An Old Perspective on Iraq, American Enterprise Online 6.30.04
Warriors from a New World, American Enterprise Online 6.2.04
A Nation of Servants, The World & I 1.1.04, Current 2.1.04, Reference Shelf, 8.1.06
Exporting Civil Society, The World & I 7.1.03
America's Other Special Relationship, American Outlook 7.1.03
No Third Act, Tech Central Station, 3.20.03
Churchill's Echo, Tech Central Station, 3.5.03
Foreign Policy Deja Vu, American Outlook 3.1.03
In Search of Monsters to Destroy, The World & I 1.1.03
One Country, One Race, American Outlook 6.1.02
Civilization's Reluctant Warrior, The World & I 1.1.02
Lenin's Century, The World & I 12.1.00
A Conversation with America, The American Legion Magazine 12.1.00
Freedom Man Sails By, Washington Times 11.15.00
Fighting Saddam with a Mac, The American Legion Magazine 8.1.00
Reagan's Monument, Indianapolis News 2.5.99
Military History
I Knew Two Heroes, TCSDaily, 6.5.09
The Truth about Iraq and Vietnam, FrontPage Magazine, 8.3.07
History’s Inkblots, FrontPage Magazine, 4.4-6.07
Bush Follows Patton, FrontPage Magazine, 12.4.06
Melting Pot Military, American Enterprise Online, 7.17.06
A Message Written in Steel, American Enterprise Online, 11.2.05
An Interview with Victor Davis Hanson, The American Legion Magazine, 9.1.05
The Exertions of Better Men, Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Spring 2005
Continental Rift, The American Legion Magazine 7.1.04
An Old Perspective on Iraq, American Enterprise Online 6.30.04
Warriors from a New World, American Enterprise Online 6.2.04
An Iraqi Tet? American Enterprise Online 4.8.04
To Make Men Free, The American Legion Magazine, 4.1.04
America's Asymmetric War, The World & I 3.1.04
Thirteen Years, Parameters 9.1.03
The Long Goodbye, The American Legion Magazine 9.1.03
America's Warrior Remnant, American Outlook 8.20.03
A Military Transformed, American Enterprise Online 5.5.03
Counting the Costs, The American Legion Magazine 4.1.02
Memorial to a Generation, The American Legion Magazine 9.1.01
The Forgotten War's Forgotten Branch, Retired Officer 8.1.01
Piledriver: The End of the Beginning, VFW Magazine 6.1.01
Smokes and Smiles in No-Man's Land, The American Legion Magazine 9.1.00
Searching for Dad, The American Legion Magazine 9.1.00
Offering Hope, The American Legion Magazine 9.1.00
Close Call, The American Legion Magazine 9.1.00
A True Fighter Pilot, The American Legion Magazine 9.1.00
'Deserter' Served in Two Armies, The American Legion Magazine 9.1.00
The Korean War As It Happened, The American Legion Magazine 9.1.00
National Security
Change, Continuity or Both? Fraser Forum, 3.1.10
Amiss on Missile Defense, The Landing Zone, 1.15.10
World War 2.0, The American Legion Magazine, 1.1.10
UAVs Are Changing the Way We Wage War, The Landing Zone, 10.15.09
Surrendering Outer Space, Policy Review, 8.1.09/9.1.09
Not Doing What Comes Naturally, TCSDaily, 6.29.09
A "Focused" Competitor, The Weekly Standard Online, 5.21.09
Up in the Air, The Weekly Standard Online, 11.18.08
Missile Defense Goes Global, Fraser Forum, 11.1.08
A Scuttled Shuttle, Doublethink Online, 10.23.08
Missile Defense Moves Forward, World Politics Review, 9.29.08
Are We Ready for WWWI? Fraser Forum, 9.1.08
World War Web, Military Officer, 6.1.08
AFRICOM, The American Legion Magazine, 5.1.08
The United States Has Ushered in the Missile Defense Age, World Politics Review, 2.22.08
Over There: Where in the World We Are, The American Legion Magazine, 2.1.08
Iran: The Unknown Unknown, FrontPage Magazine, 12.5.07
Defeating Terrorism in Africa, FrontPage Magazine, 8.27.07
The Access Issue in Asia, The American Legion Magazine, 8.1.07
Russia’s Missile Defense Furor, FrontPage Magazine, 7.9.07
After the Kim Dynasty, Military Officer, 7.1.07
Red Relapse, The American Legion Magazine, 6.1.07
Blaming the Messenger, FrontPage Magazine, 3.13.07
Preventing Armageddon, FrontPage Magazine, 2.23.07
Our Commission-in-Chief, TCSDaily, 12.8.06
Lame Duck or Hawk? What Bush Can Learn from Clinton, TCSDaily, 11.14.06
No Rationale for Kim's Irrationality, FrontPage Magazine, 10.13.06
A Purpose-Driven Military? The American Legion Magazine, 9.1.06
Melting Pot Military, American Enterprise Online, 7.17.06
Schizophrenic Secretary? American Enterprise Online, 6.26.06
Star Wars: The Sequel, TCSDaily, 6.20.06; RealClearPolitics, 6.20.06; FrontPage Magazine, 6.21.06
A Way Out of the Fog, American Enterprise Online, 5.8.06
Linked: Connecting 9/11 and the War in Iraq, The American Legion Magazine, 5.1.06
Silent Partners, American Enterprise Online, 4.17.06
Neither Friend Nor Foe, American Enterprise Online, 4.10.06
Get Real, American Enterprise Online, 4.3.06
Patience Pays Off? The Baltimore Sun, 3.7.06
Special Force for a Special Branch, American Enterprise Online, 2.27.06
Preempting Preemption, American Enterprise Online, 1.6.06
Playing with Purpose, American Enterprise Online, 12.5.05
On the Offensive, American Enterprise Online, 11.16.05
Handle with Care: Iran, Nukes and War, The American Legion Magazine, 11.1.05
Now and Then, A Humanitarian War, American Enterprise Online, 9.21.05
Dark Diary, The American Enterprise, 9.1.05
Weapons of Mass Protection, The American Legion Magazine, 8.1.05
Tomorrow in the Taiwan Straits, American Enterprise Online, 8.1.05
First Principles, American Enterprise Online, 6.30.05
Noise Complaint, American Enterprise Online, 5.18.05
We Stand on Guard for Thee? The American Enterprise, April/May 2005
Welcoming a Few Good Men, The American Enterprise, 3.1.05
Missing Pieces, The American Legion Magazine 11.1.04
Preoccupied or Prepared? American Enterprise Online 9.08.04
Operation Omnipresence, American Enterprise Online 8.25.04
October Surprises-and Nightmares, American Enterprise Online 7.28.04
America's Doctrine, American Outlook Spring 2004
Tied Down, The American Legion Magazine 5.1.04
Not Star Wars Anymore, The American Enterprise 3.1.04
America's Asymmetric War, The World & I 3.1.04
Weapons of Mass Confusion, American Outlook Today 2.2.04
Thinking the Unthinkable 2.0, American Outlook Winter 2003/2004
Rumsfeld’s Rules…and Questions, American Outlook Today 10.24.03
Thirteen Years, Parameters 9.1.03
Beyond Baghdad, The American Legion Magazine 7.1.03
A Military Transformed, American Enterprise Online 5.5.03
Baghdad and Beyond, National Review Online 4.10.03
The New NATO, The American Legion Magazine 4.1.03
UN R.I.P., Financial Times Deutschland, American Enterprise Online, 3.10.03
Foreign Policy Deja Vu, American Outlook 3.1.03
Lawyers and Warriors, The American Enterprise 1.1.03
In Search of Monsters to Destroy, The World & I 1.1.03
Words of War, National Review Online 12.5.02
NATO's Next Mission, National Review Online 11.20.02
No Time for Timidity, The American Legion Magazine 10.1.02
Worlds Apart, The American Legion Magazine 8.1.02
A Colder War, The World & I 7.1.02
Order Outside the Court, American Outlook Today 5.14.02
Long War, Short Memory, The American Enterprise Online 4.11.02
Taking the High Ground, The World & I 5.1.02
No Place to Go, The American Legion Magazine 3.1.02
Changing of the Guard, VFW Magazine 9.1.01
China on the Verge, American Outlook 7.1.01
Cold War II? Washington Times 4.4.01
China: The Prowling Dragon, The American Legion Magazine 10.1.00
No Day at the Beach, The American Legion Magazine 10.1.00
Time to Rebuild, The American Legion Magazine 10.1.00
Today's Missile Crisis, VFW Magazine 4.1.99
A New Cold War, Indianapolis News 1.14.99
The Dangers of Doing More with Less, Indianapolis News 10.9.98
A Nation's Naive ABM Policy, Indianapolis News 7.27.98
The Curtain Rises on Cold War II, Endeavor 3.1.96
Preparing for the Next Gulf War, Endeavor 10.16.94
NATO and Transatlantic Issues
NATO's New Mission Statement, Fraser Forum, 9.1.09
NATO's Strategery, World Politics Review, 7.29.09
NATO at 60: Transformed or Deformed? The American Legion Magazine, 7.1.09
NATO at 60: One for All? Doublethink Online, 4.1.09
The Future of NATO, Fraser Forum, 2.1.09
Supplying NATO in Afghanistan, Doublethink Online, 1.27.09
NATO: A Work in Progress, The American Legion Magazine, 11.1.08
Justice Catches up with Karadzic, Briefly, Doublethink Online, 8.6.08
Sending the Right Message, Doublethink Online, 8.21.08
The Half-a-Loaf Doctrine, World Politics Review, 4.15.08
April Fools? Bucharest Offers an Opportunity, World Politics Review, 3.14.08
A Cold Peace, The American Legion Magazine, 3.1.08
An Independent Kosovo: The Least Bad Option, World Politics Review, 1.21.08
Brownout? From Blair to Brown, The American Legion Magazine, 12.1.07
Forever at the Crossroads, The Weekly Standard Online, 10.4.07
A Friend in France, The American Legion Magazine, 10.1.07
Russia’s Missile Defense Furor, FrontPage Magazine, 7.9.07
Europe's Rorschach Test, The American Legion Magazine, 7.1.07
An Independent Kosovo? FrontPage Magazine, 5.22.07
Au Revoir Jacques, FrontPage Magazine, 5.16.07
The Price of Piracy, FrontPage Magazine, 4.4.07
Mind the Transatlantic Gap, FrontPage Magazine, 1.30.07
Help Wanted, TCSDaily, 9.14.06
Canada Reawakens, The American Legion Magazine, 7.1.06
Vacancy at The Hague Hotel, American Enterprise Online, 3.20.06
Patience Pays Off? The Baltimore Sun, 3.7.06
Mulligan in the Middle East, American Enterprise Online, 2.13.06
Canada: Don’t Tread on Us, American Enterprise Online, 1.23.06
Red, White and Bruised, The American Enterprise, 12.1.05
Weapons of Mass Protection, The American Legion Magazine, 8.1.05
Lessons in London, American Enterprise Online, 7.8.05
Wartime Politics, American Enterprise Online, 6.1.05
The EU's Plan B, American Enterprise Online, 4.19.05
We Stand on Guard for Thee? The American Enterprise, April/May 2005
An Alliance of Indifference and Annoyance, American Enterprise Online 2.23.05
A Plank in Europe's Eye, American Enterprise Online 12.14.04
A Different Course? Parameters Autumn 2004
Bill Clinton's Multilateral Fairy Tale, Wall Street Journal Europe 7.30.04
Continental Rift, The American Legion Magazine 7.1.04
Bush's Voice, American Enterprise Online 6.16.04
Time to Play Good Cop, American Enterprise Online, 12.19.03
General Clark's Next Campaign, National Review Online 8.21.03
The New NATO, The American Legion Magazine 4.1.03
NATO's Next Mission, National Review Online 11.20.02
The NATO Summit: Big Deal or Big Mistake? Washington Times 6.12.01
W. Needs to Take Dad's Advice, Intellectual Capital 4.9.01
The Belated Revolution, Indianapolis Star 10.15.00
NATO After Kosovo, Policy Review 12.1.99/1.1.00
Life after Yeltsin, Indianapolis News 9.28.99
NATO Effort a Success, Indianapolis News 6.15.99
Is It NATO's Waterloo? Indianapolis News 4.23.99
NATO Turns 50, Indianapolis News 3.5.99
A Necessary War, Indianapolis News 4.1.99
A Postmortem on Bosnia, Endeavor 12.31.95
Can the Dole Doctrine Rescue Bosnia? Endeavor 7.1.95
"Basher 52" Goes Down in Bosnia, Endeavor 6.27.95
Reconsidering the CSCE (Part I), Hudson Briefing Paper 2.1.95
Reconsidering the CSCE (Part II), Hudson Briefing Paper 2.1.95
What the West Lost in Gorazde, Endeavor 4.23.94
The Paradox of Clinton Foreign Policy, Indianapolis Star 1.17.94
America's Obligation to Bosnia, Indianapolis Star 7.25.92
Philanthropy
The High Cost of Volunteering, The American Magazine Online, 3.31.09
Operation Heartland Lends a Hand to Homeless Vets, The American Legion Magazine, 9.1.08
Those Stingy Americans, American Enterprise Online 1.12.05
Can We Export Civil Society? American Outlook Summer/Autumn 2004
A Nation of Servants, The World & I 1.1.04, Current 2.1.04, Reference Shelf, 8.1.06
Exporting Civil Society, The World & I 7.1.03
Super-Sizing AmeriCorps, National Review Online 1.31.02
In Defense of Billionaires, Indianapolis News 7.12.99
A Sector in Perpetual Crisis, AlanWDowd.com 4.20.98
Politics and Elections
Palin in 2012? FrontPage Magazine, 11.23.09
One and Done, Doublethink Online, 10.6.08
Is Obama Like Ike? World Politics Review, 6.3.08
Proud but Anxious, The Weekly Standard Online, 3.6.08
Conventional Wisdom Wrong Again...and Again and Again, TCSDaily, 2.13.08
The Right Man--and the Left's, FrontPage Magazine, 2.4.08
Upper Hand for the Upper Chamber? FrontPage Magazine, 1.3.08
Hysterical Hypocrisy, FrontPage Magazine, 12.21.07
Religious Right and Wrong, TCSDaily, 12.13.07
9/10 Candidates, FrontPage Magazine, 10.3.07
Up All Night, FrontPage Magazine, 7.18.07
Statesman in the Making? The Washington Examiner, 6.21.07
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Bloomberg? FrontPage Magazine, 6.21.07
A Party Divided, FrontPage Magazine, 5.3.07
You Say You Wanna Resolution? TCSDaily, 2.12.07
Lame Duck or Hawk? What Bush Can Learn from Clinton, TCSDaily, 11.14.06
Moving On, The Washington Examiner, 9.13.06
The War Party, American Enterprise Online, 7.31.06
Faith in America, American Enterprise Online, 4.24.06
Get Real, American Enterprise Online, 4.3.06
The World Watches and Wonders, American Enterprise Online, 2.21.06
Dowdworld, American Enterprise Online, 12.12.05
On the Offensive, American Enterprise Online, 11.16.05
The Perfect Storm? American Enterprise Online, 10.19.05
Now and Then, A Humanitarian War, American Enterprise Online, 9.21.05
The Sanctity of Roe, American Enterprise Online, 9.13.05
Blame Bush, American Enterprise Online, 9.7.05
Pension Problems, American Enterprise Online, 6.15.05
Wartime Politics, American Enterprise Online, 6.1.05
Hawking Hillary, American Enterprise Online, 5.4.05
Life of the Party, American Enterprise Online, 3.23.05
Missed Opportunities, American Enterprise Online 10.6.04
Better Off? American Enterprise Online 7.14.04
9/11 Hypocrisy, The American Enterprise 6.1.04
The Next Secretary of State, American Enterprise Online 5.19.04
Catch 22: Kerry's Other Campaign, American Enterprise Online 2.25.04
General Clark's Next Campaign, National Review Online 8.21.03
Look to London, National Review Online 9.30.02, American Outlook Today 10.2.02
Mr. Smith Goes Campaigning, The American Legion Magazine 10.1.01
Presidents and Precedents, The World & I 10.1.01
No Ordinary Election, The American Legion Magazine 5.1.01
Gore's Smear, Bush's Moment, Indianapolis Star 11.12.00
Party and Principle, Indianapolis News 11.19.98
So This Is Victory? Indianapolis News 11.5.98
Promises, Promises, Indianapolis News 9.17.98
Showdown in the GOP, Endeavor 7.1.96
Conservative Comeback, Endeavor 11.15.94
A Generational Transition of Leadership, Indianapolis Star 1.20.93
Public Policy
The Great Recession: Boom Time for Government, TCSDaily, 10.1.09
Drug-Trafficking Penalties around the World, The American Legion Magazine, 6.1.09
Time to Go Nuclear, The Sacramento Bee and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 5.24.09
The Rising Tide of Protectionism in the United States, Fraser Forum, 4.1.09
Turning Inward? The Okanagan Sunday, 3.8.09; The Windsor Star, 3.10.09
Corn-Fed Fuel, The American Legion Magazine, 3.1.09
Going Nuclear: The Post-Petro Economy, The American Legion Magazine, 3.1.09
Ethanol, Biodiesel Have Tanks Full of Caveats, The Windsor Star, 9.15.08
The Path to Prosperity, The American Magazine Online, 8.7.08
Our Other Immigration Problem, The American Legion Magazine, 6.1.08
Paying the Price? The American Magazine Online, 1.9.08
Fixing the BCS Mess, The American Magazine Online, 12.6.07
How to Salute Our Vets, FrontPage Magazine, 11.12.07
Failing Grades, The American Legion Magazine, 9.1.07
The Energy Challenge, FrontPage Magazine, 6.27.07
You Say You Wanna Resolution? TCSDaily, 2.12.07
Our Commission-in-Chief, TCSDaily, 12.8.06
Prime of Life, American Enterprise Online, 6.5.06
Buy the Gallon, American Enterprise Online, 5.22.06
Silent Partners, American Enterprise Online, 4.17.06
A Mainstream Majority, American Enterprise Online, 3.6.06
A Nasty Little Beast, American Enterprise Online, 11.29.05
The Sanctity of Roe, American Enterprise Online, 9.13.05
Blame Bush, American Enterprise Online, 9.7.05
Offensive Foul, American Enterprise Online, 8.10.05
Life Lessons, American Enterprise Online, 4.5.05
Power Play, American Enterprise Online 12.29.04
Thinking the Unthinkable 2.0, American Outlook Winter 2003/2004
A Shooting Star, American Outlook Today 2.4.03
The Life of Roe, National Review Online 1.21.03
Up the Slippery Slope, American Outlook 11.1.02
Hitting Rock Bottom, American Outlook Today 8.3.02
One Country, One Race, American Outlook 6.1.02
A Culture of Life, Washington Times 8.15.01
Fatherhood Under Fire, The American Legion Magazine 6.1.01
The War for Recruits, The American Legion Magazine 4.1.01, Enduring Issues 2001
A Sector in Perpetual Crisis, AlanWDowd.com 4.20.98
While a Nation Shrugs, Indianapolis News 9.19.97
After Oklahoma City: Common Sense in a Common Cause, Endeavor 5.10.95
Abolition Then and Now: Changing the Status Quo, Endeavor 2.3.95
The War
The Wrong Battlefield, FrontPage Magazine, 11.17.09
A War of Necessity (Sort Of), FrontPage Magazine, 10.27.09
UAVs Are Changing the Way We Wage War, The Landing Zone, 10.15.09
Forgotten Fronts, The American Legion Magazine, 9.1.09
No Easy Answers, The American Legion Magazine, 5.1.09
GWOT RIP, TCSDaily, 3.31.09
Supplying NATO in Afghanistan, Doublethink Online, 1.27.09
The Long Road to Recovery, TCSDaily, 1.5.09
Muted Messages, The American Legion Magazine, 10.1.08
Over There: Where in the World We Are, The American Legion Magazine, 2.1.08
Iran: The Unknown Unknown, FrontPage Magazine, 12.5.07
Amidst the Gloom, Some Good News from Afghanistan, World Politics Review, 12.3.07
Forever at the Crossroads, The Weekly Standard Online, 10.4.07
9/10 Candidates, FrontPage Magazine, 10.3.07
9/11 Amnesia, FrontPage Magazine, 9.11.07
Defeating Terrorism in Africa, FrontPage Magazine, 8.27.07
The Truth about Iraq and Vietnam, FrontPage Magazine, 8.3.07
Ignoring Genocide: Obama’s Realpolitik, FrontPage Magazine, 7.27.07
Up All Night, FrontPage Magazine, 7.18.07
Still a World War, FrontPage Magazine, 6.5.07
A Party Divided, FrontPage Magazine, 5.3.07
Winners and Losers, FrontPage Magazine, 4.19.07
History’s Inkblots, FrontPage Magazine, 4.4-6.07
The Price of Piracy, FrontPage Magazine, 4.4.07
Blaming the Messenger, FrontPage Magazine, 3.13.07
Mind the Transatlantic Gap, FrontPage Magazine, 1.30.07
Full Circle, FrontPage Magazine, 1.12.07
The Bush Administration: Act III, FrontPage Magazine, 1.5.07
Our Commission-in-Chief, TCSDaily, 12.8.06
Bush Follows Patton, FrontPage Magazine, 12.4.06
Tet II: A Partial Picture, FrontPage Magazine, 10.30.06
Pakistan's Pseudo-War, FrontPage Magazine, 9.29.06
Help Wanted, TCSDaily, 9.14.06
A Purpose-Driven Military? The American Legion Magazine, 9.1.06
Today, We Begin, American Enterprise Online, 8.7.06
The War Party, American Enterprise Online, 7.31.06
The Axis Lives, American Enterprise Online, 7.24.06
Renewal of Vows, American Enterprise Online, 7.10.06
After Zarqawi, American Enterprise Online, 6.11.06
Fighting Words, American Enterprise Online, 5.29.06
A Way Out of the Fog, American Enterprise Online, 5.8.06
Linked: Connecting 9/11 and the War in Iraq, The American Legion Magazine, 5.1.06
Defense of the Secretary, American Enterprise Online, 5.1.06
Silent Partners, American Enterprise Online, 4.17.06
Get Real, American Enterprise Online, 4.3.06
A Work in Progress, American Enterprise Online, 3.27.06
Blowback, American Enterprise Online, 3.13.06
Special Force for a Special Branch, American Enterprise Online, 2.27.06
Democratic Disaster? American Enterprise Online, 1.30.06
Preempting Preemption, American Enterprise Online, 1.6.06
Liberty Takes Root, American Enterprise Online, 12.19.05
On the Offensive, American Enterprise Online, 11.16.05
A Message Written in Steel, American Enterprise Online, 11.2.05
Handle with Care: Iran, Nukes and War, The American Legion Magazine, 11.1.05
Four Years On: A World of Surprises, American Enterprise Online, 10.7.05
The Other Anniversary, American Enterprise Online, 10.5.05
Now and Then, A Humanitarian War, American Enterprise Online, 9.21.05
An Interview with Victor Davis Hanson, The American Legion Magazine, 9.1.05
Dark Diary, The American Enterprise, 9.1.05
Anti-Wobble Medicine, The American Enterprise, 9.1.05
Questions and Answers, American Enterprise Online, 8.24.05
Lessons in London, American Enterprise Online, 7.8.05
First Principles, American Enterprise Online, 6.30.05
Wartime Politics, American Enterprise Online, 6.1.05
The Exertions of Better Men, Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Spring 2005
Freedom Writer, The American Legion Magazine 3.1.05
An Alliance of Indifference and Annoyance, American Enterprise Online 2.23.05
A Fitting Role for the UN in Iraq, American Enterprise Online 1.26.05
Fighting for Freedom, American Enterprise Online 11.17.04
Finishing al Qaeda, American Enterprise Online 11.3.04
Missing Pieces, The American Legion Magazine 11.1.04
Back from Baghdad, The American Legion Magazine 11.1.04
Round Two in Fallujah, American Enterprise Online 10.20.04
A Different Course? Parameters Autumn 2004
An Afternoon in August, American Enterprise Online 8.11.04
October Surprises-and Nightmares, American Enterprise Online 7.28.04
An Old Perspective on Iraq, American Enterprise Online 6.30.04
Bush's Voice, American Enterprise Online 6.16.04
Falling Back? American Enterprise Online 5.5.04
An Iraqi Tet? American Enterprise Online 4.8.04
A Round in the Chamber, American Enterprise Online 4.6.04
To Make Men Free, The American Legion Magazine, 4.1.04
America's Asymmetric War, The World & I 3.1.04
Baghdad's Untold Story, The American Legion Magazine 3.1.04
Weapons of Mass Confusion, American Outlook Today 2.2.04
Time to Play Good Cop, American Enterprise Online, 12.19.03
Coming UN-done, The American Enterprise 12.1.03
Rumsfeld’s Rules…and Questions, American Outlook Today, 10.24.03
Two Years Later, American Enterprise Online, 9.11.03
Thirteen Years, Parameters 9.1.03
America's Warrior Remnant, American Outlook 8.20.03
Beyond Baghdad, The American Legion Magazine 7.1.03
America's Other Special Relationship, American Outlook 7.1.03
A Military Transformed, American Enterprise Online 5.5.03
Baghdad and Beyond, National Review Online 4.10.03
The New NATO, The American Legion Magazine 4.1.03
No Third Act, Tech Central Station, 3.20.03
UN R.I.P., Financial Times Deutschland, American Enterprise Online, 3.10.03
Churchill's Echo, Tech Central Station, 3.5.03
Lawyers and Warriors, The American Enterprise 1.1.03
In Search of Monsters to Destroy, The World & I 1.1.03
Words of War, National Review Online 12.5.02
A National Sabbath, American Outlook 11.1.02
No Time for Timidity, The American Legion Magazine 10.1.02
Standing at the Crossroads, The Lookout 9.8.02
Our National Sabbath, National Review Online 8.15.02
A Colder War, The World & I 7.1.02
Long War, Short Memory, The American Enterprise Online 4.11.02
They're Coming, Washington Times 4.2.02
Counting the Costs, The American Legion Magazine 4.1.02
The Fury and the Infamy, The American Legion Magazine 1.1.02
Civilization's Reluctant Warrior, The World & I 1.1.02
Judgment Day for John Walker, Washington Times 12.19.01
Stand Fast, National Review Online 11.11.01
Answering the Call, Washington Times 11.9.01
Virtue and Victory, National Review Online 10.8.01
Photo-op Foreign Policy, Jerusalem Post 10.24.00
Bill Clinton's Phony War, Indianapolis News 8.20.99