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Robert D. KaplanAuthor Index Articles currently available on The Atlantic Monthly's Web site- The Man Who Would Be Khan, March 2004Meet Colonel Tom Wilhelm, one of a new breed of soldier-diplomats that has come into being since the end of the Cold War.
- The Story of A War, November 2003Kaplan reviews The Iraq War: A Military History by Williamson Murray and Major General Robert H. Scales Jr.
- Supremacy by Stealth, July/August 2003It is a cliché these days to observe that the United States nowpossesses a global empire. Our recent effort in Iraq, with itslarge-scale mobilization of troops and immense concentration of risk,is not indicative of how we will want to act in the future. So howshould we operate on a tactical level to preserve our imperium?
- Supremacy by Stealth, July/August 2003It's a cliché these days to observe that the United States nowpossesses a global empire. It is time to move beyond a statement of theobvious. How should we operate on a tactical level to preserve ourimperium? What are the rules and what are the tools?
- Euphorias of Hatred, May 2003The grim lessons of a novel by Gogol.
- A Tale of Two Colonies, April 2003Our correspondent travels to Yemen and Eritrea, two countries centralto U.S. military efforts in the war on terrorism, and describes growinginvolvement in two dramatically different political landscapes.
- A Post-Saddam Scenario, November 2002Iraq could become America's primary staging ground in the Middle East.And the greatest beneficial effect could come next door, in Iran.
- The World in 2005, March 2002American eyes are focused at the moment mainly on the war againstterrorism. But powerful forces continue to shape the world withoutregard to that war—and will affect how we wage it.
- Looking the World in the Eye, December 2001Samuel Huntington is a mild-mannered man whose sharp opinions—about thecollision of Islam and the West, about the role of the military in aliberal society, about what separates countries that work fromcountries that don't—have proved to be as prescient as they have beencontroversial.
- Roman Africa, June 2001The economic and political fault lines that separated Carthage andNumidia are the ones that separate Tunisia and Algeria—and the Romansdrew them.
- Where Europe Vanishes, November 2000The Caucasus region -- bounded by Russia and Iran, by the Black Sea andthe Caspian -- is rich in oil and hatred. It is where Stalin was born,and where the Soviet empire died.
- The Lawless Frontier, September 2000 "Pakistan" is crumbling fast. The country is a Yugoslavia in the making, but with nuclear weapons.
- The Return of Ancient Times, June 2000 Human progress has often been made in the space between idealism and savagery.
- What Makes History, March 2000 Where the Enlightenment encountered reality.
- Israel Now, January 2000The author, a former resident of Israel, finds that raw power andeconomic forces are redrawing the map of the Middle East, and peacetalks will merely formalize the emerging reality.
- Four-Star Generalists, October 1999 In a lackluster age for many of the liberal arts, the discipline of military history retains exceptional relevance.
- China: A World Power Again, August 1999 What is usual for China is unusual for the West -- at least in recent memory.
- Kissinger, Metternich, and Realism, June 1999 What Kissinger has always offered is a grimly persuasive view of the human condition.
- Hoods Against Democrats, December 1998 In Bulgaria the distinction between the state and organized crime is clear -- for now.
- The Fulcrum of Europe, September 1998 The tendency in the West is to dismiss Romania as a sadly decrepit irrelevance. Will we discover the mistake in time?
- Travels Into America's Future, August 1998Imagine a land in which the dominant culture is an internationalizedone, at every level; in which the political units that really matterare confederations of city-states; in which loyalty is an economicconcept, when it is not obsolete; in which "the United States" existschiefly to provide military protection. That is the land ourcorrespondent glimpses, and it is no longer beyond the horizon.
- Night Train to Istanbul, July 1998
- Travels Into America's Future, July 1998The author, who has long experience reporting from dimly understoodregions of the world, reports from his dimly understood native land,and his excursions expose the borderless forces that are pushingAmerica into its next life.
- New England Places, May 1998The Atlantic has been headquartered in New England for 140years, so the staff members and contributing editors have had plenty oftime to explore it. Here are some of our favorite spots.
- And Now for the News, March 1998The disturbing freshness of Gibbon's Decline and Fall.
- Special Intelligence, February 1998The roles of the CIA and the military may merge, in the form of "Special Forces," made up of data-analyzing urban commandos.
- History Moving North, March 1997As Mexican society fragments, the impact will hit the United Stateswith force -- and U.S. society is likely to fragment in some of thesame ways.
- Was Democracy Just a Moment?, December 1997The global triumph of democracy was to be the glorious climax of theAmerican Century. But democracy may not be the system that will bestserve the world -- or even the one that will prevail in places that nowconsider themselves bastions of freedom.
- Fort Leavenworth and the Eclipse of Nationhood, September 1996 Fort Leavenworth, in Kansas, has for more than a century been the place where the Army has prepared its most promising commanders to "fight the next war." Today, when military intellectuals at Fort Leavenworth ponder America's future -- as much through the reading of ancient history as through the analysis of computerized scenarios -- they are profoundly unsettled by what they see.
- Proportionalism, August 1996What should the United States do in the Third World, where there's too much to do and too much that can't be done?
- A Bazaari's World, March 1996 To understand Iran -- and perhaps even the future of other parts of the Islamic world -- one must understand a man like Mohsen Rafiqdoost.
- The Coming Anarchy, February 1994 How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet.
- Tales from the Bazaar, August 1992 As individuals, few American diplomats have been as anonymous as the members of the group known as the Arabists. And yet as a group, no cadre of diplomats has aroused more suspicion than the Arab experts have. Who are the Arabists? Where did they come from? Do they deserve our confidence?
- The Character Issue, May 1990 Can the Germans get it right this time?
- The Balkans: Europe's Third World, July 1989 Poverty and ethnic strife in southeastern Europe will give the Russians a headache for years to come.
- Sons of Devils, November 1987In a turbulent region the stateless Kurds play the role of spoiler.
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