Ralph Peters has been a Post Opinion columnist since 2002. He is also Fox News' first Strategic Analyst. Ralph served for over two decades in the U.S. Army, as an enlisted man and officer, before retiring in 1998 to write and speak freely. He has experience in over 70 countries and is the author of 24 books, including novels, an adventure-travel memoir and works on strategy. While his home is at the Post, he also has editorial or contributor relationships with Armed Forces Journal, Armchair General Magazine and USAToday. He writes from the Washington, D.C. area, but remains, at heart, a proud coalcracker from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
If we needed yet another example of Washington's self-absorption, we sure got it with the WikiLeaks dump of classified data on AfPak. Government officials promptly freaked about the political consequences. The rush...
July 29, 2010 12:00 AM
The treasure trove of 91,000 classified AfPak documents posted by WikiLeaks suggests that our government's been deceiving us about Pakistan's murderous behavior. But the situation's even worse than that: Our...
July 27, 2010 12:00 AM
The fundamental problem with our national intelligence system is that it assumes that quantity can substitute for quality. The result is a vast, expensive network that's far less than the sum of its parts. It's as...
July 21, 2010 12:00 AMThe Islamists have it wrong: Islam isn't the world's fastest-growing religion. By birth numbers and convert tallies, it's Christianity. And Africa's at the forefront -- a fact that's going to body-slam Muslim...
July 19, 2010 12:00 AM
It's heartening to hear encouraging news from AfPak, after a year of meandering and malaise: Gen. David Petraeus has hit the ground running. Since taking command in Afghanistan, he's begun to review our suicidal...
July 15, 2010 12:00 AM
Nominated last week to replace Gen. David Petraeus as the head of the US Central Command, the Marine Corps' Gen. Jim Mattis may be the finest four-star on duty in any service today. He's certainly the humblest. And...
July 13, 2010 12:00 AM
Gen. David Petraeus has an unprece dented opportunity to seize back the momentum in Afghanistan: Neither President Obama nor Congress wants a confrontation with this general. During his honeymoon, he can write his own...
July 08, 2010 1:14 AMGermany's governing coalition is on the verge of collapse, but the country isn't. Berlin's the one major capital likely to survive the global economic plague in strapping health. In the past, I've written...
July 05, 2010 12:00 AM
We're failing in Afghanistan. Confirmed yesterday as our new commander there, Gen. David Petraeus has the unenviable task of producing something President Obama can call a success. If Petraeus can salvage the...
July 01, 2010 12:00 AM
On Friday, Kyrgyzstan's interim president, Roza Otunbayeva, flew to the site of this month's ethnic violence -- and raised the estimate of the dead to 2,000. Some 400,000 ethnic Uzbeks have become refugees, with 100...
June 19, 2010 12:00 AMAfghanistan just got its worst news since the Soviet invasion three decades ago: American geologists have charted as much as a trillion dollars' worth of mineral deposits in that tormented landscape. Up to now,...
June 15, 2010 12:00 AM
Yesterday brought the welcome news that a 22-year-old soldier had been busted for passing classified gun-camera tapes and documents to Wikileaks. If proven guilty, Spc. Bradley Manning needs to do serious prison time....
June 08, 2010 12:00 AMAS the Irish-flagged "aid" ship Rachel Corrie heads for Gaza and Act Two of this made-in-Turkey crisis looms, Washington still can't bring itself to accept that the entire script was written in Ankara. Fourteen...
June 04, 2010 12:00 AM
Yesterday's "aid convoy" incident off the coast of Gaza wasn't about bringing humanitarian supplies to the terrorist-ruled territory. It wasn't even about Israel. It was about Turkey's determination to position...
June 01, 2010 12:00 AMI fully agree with Ralph Peters' perception that this administration's strategy remains stagnant ("Security Charade," PostOpinion, May 28). At best, President Obama offers virtually useless gestures, as he has with...
June 01, 2010 12:00 AMEach Memorial Day, we’re treated to countless columns thanking our men and women in uniform for their service and honoring those we have lost or who suffered wounds. The rhetoric’s well intentioned. But it isn’t enough....
May 30, 2010 5:19 AM
President Obama may have Katrina'd himself this week over the Gulf oil spill -- but at least it distracted attention from the fact that he also got caught using the National Guard as lipstick on a cactus. Anyone...
May 28, 2010 12:00 AM
Yesterday, The New York Times published another front-page article based on a leaked classified document. This time, it was an order signed by Gen. David Petraeus authorizing black operations against adversaries and...
May 26, 2010 12:00 AM
The world changed this week and we yawned. Our government and media utterly failed to grasp the meaning of the Iran-Brazil-Turkey nuke deal. Undercutting the sanctions-lite bargain Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
May 21, 2010 12:00 AM
'It's those damned Jews." That's the muffled message I hear when, pretending to represent our national interest, voices call for the abandonment of Israel. We've heard it from agenda-driven scholars who write that...
May 17, 2010 12:00 AM
President Hamid Karzai is doomed. During his strategic shopping trip to Washington this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pronounced his epitaph: "We will not abandon the Afghan people." In DC doublespeak,...
May 13, 2010 12:00 AM
Something big is happening. Big enough to alarm the White House. So big that the administration did an abrupt about-face regarding terrorism. Terrorism's serious now -- driving major policy reversals. The...
May 11, 2010 12:00 AM
Appeasement doesn't work. It doesn't work with dictators, and it doesn't work with terrorists. The attempted Times Square bombing was yet more proof. We've allowed Islamist extremists to dictate what we can say,...
May 05, 2010 12:00 AM
American and European leftists share the conviction that the immigrant, legal or illegal, is always right -- and the native-born citizen's always wrong. This bigotry toward the law-abiding American, Brit, Frenchman...
May 03, 2010 12:00 AM
South of the border, down Mexico way, a new and savage revolution rages just beyond our inspection lanes. After less than five years of fighting, estimates of the dead have reached 22,000. The rate of killing...
April 29, 2010 12:00 AMAt some point during the American Revolution, a frustrated British general, deep into his evening port, must have asked, "Can't these primitives understand the advantages we offer them?" In Afghanistan today,...
April 24, 2010 12:00 AM
Robert Gates isn't just our secretary of defense -- he's our national damage-control officer. The closest thing this love-your-enemies administration has to an indispensable man, Gates is fighting the good fight in...
April 21, 2010 12:00 AM
Jeez, this guy is good. A few years back, I wrote that Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was the most impressive major leader on today's world stage. Since then, he's gotten better. Back then, he was...
April 16, 2010 12:00 AM
Our foreign policy suffers from a chronic learning disability: Neither Democrats nor Republicans can get it through their heads that supporting unpopular, corrupt foreign bosses always ends badly. Decade after...
April 13, 2010 12:00 AM
Nuclear weapons are not evil. Terrifying, yes. But their horrific capabilities prevented a Third World War. It all depends on whose finger is on the button. Until yesterday's formal announcement of the...
April 07, 2010 12:00 AM
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