Diplomacy gone astray / Edward Cuddy Too many overseas bases / David Vine Obama's empire / Catherine Lutz Two cheers for the US empire / Thomas Donnelly The American non-empire / Ed Morrissey Obama to confront limits of America's overstretched military / Anna Mulrine The American awakening / Dexter Filkins Debating Afghanistan / Paul R. Pillar and John Nagl Obama doesn't make a case for more troops / The Orange County Register Obama's surge / Commonweal The West can encourage legitimacy and accountability / Aziz Hakimi The slog of war / Nir Rosen How deep in after we're out? / Frank Oliveri Extending our stay in Iraq / Thomas E. Ricks The rationale for keeping U.S. forces in Iraq / Jeremy R. Hammond Doomsday in Iraq, is it really just around the corner? / Tom Engelhardt Hope and change in Iraq / Reuel Marc Gerecht Long goodbye, but goodbye / Palm Beach Post Rebirth of a nation / Babak Dehghanpisheh, John Barry, and Christopher Dickey
Triumph of the Turks / Owen Matthews and Christopher Dickey
The army is beaten / Owen Matthews
Testy Erdogan / The Economist
The status of U.S. nuclear weapons in Turkey / Alexandra Bell and Benjamin Loehrke
Unwelcomed missiles / Feryaz Ocakli and Yelena Biberman
U.S. forces: basics of the U.S. military presence / Reiji Yoshida
The new battle of Okinawa / The Economist
Is defence treaty with US set to collapse? / David McNeill
Japan balks at $2 billion bill to host U.S. troops / Eric Talmadge
A changed Japanese diplomacy? / Anthony Rowley
The power of Japan / Karen Sue Smith
USFK seeks to expand role outside peninsula / Jung Sung-ki
S. Korea expands modern forces as it seeks great security role / Asia Pulse
New US command / Korea Times.