The pretend war: bombing Isil won’t solve the problem
Britain, France and America are in a protracted fight against Islamic radicalism. Pity our leaders have no idea how to win it
The will to fight
Isis have it. Who else?
Anatomy of a failure
Whatever happened to Barack Obama?
What’s an army good for?
In the case of America, the answer is now practically everything – except perhaps winning wars
No we shouldn’t
Hawks are mistaking military action for strategy
General paralysis
America has let Egypt’s old military oligarchs take hold again. Must it carry on paying for them, too?
Obama’s thwarted hope
He wasn’t the first president to promise to bend the arc of history. And he won’t be the last to fail
