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Commentary by Date - 2003

Commentary pieces by RAND staff are the analyses of the authors, and not of RAND itself.

December 26, 2003: Fight Terrorism With Intelligence, Not Might

By Sara Daly (Christian Science Monitor)

December 25, 2003: From 'white' Christmas to 'orange' Christmas

By Brian Michael Jenkins (San Diego Union Tribune)

December 19, 2003: Why U.S. History Holds a Lesson for Europe

By James Thomson (Financial Times)

December 19, 2003: Learning to Break the Rules

By Bruce Berkowitz (New York Times)

December 17, 2003: Saddam Is Ours. Does Al Qaeda Care?

By Bruce Hoffman (New York Times)

December 11, 2003: My Dog Ate My Argument

By Brian P. Gill and Steven L. Schlossman (Los Angeles Times)

December 10, 2003: Leaving Iraq Too Soon Leads to Failure

By Seth G. Jones (Newsday)

December 6, 2003: Democracy is Best Weapon Against Terrorists in Pakistan

By Rollie Lal and Sara Daly (Chicago Sun-Times)

December 3, 2003: Killing bin Laden, et al, Is No Help

By Brian Michael Jenkins (Newsday)

November 25, 2003: The Changing Face of Chinese Diplomacy

By Evan S. Medeiros and M. Taylor Fravel (Asian Wall Street Journal)

November 17, 2003: Exposing the Myths

By William Overholt (South China Morning Post)

November 13, 2003: Pick the UN's Best for a Wider Iraq Role

By Charles Wolf Jr. (International Herald Tribune; available on iht.com)

November 3, 2003: In the Calculus of Fear, Terrorists Have an Edge

By Bruce Hoffman (Los Angeles Times)

October 21, 2003: Breach of Airline Security Is Nothing to Panic About

By Brian Michael Jenkins (Los Angeles Times)

October 14, 2003: How Much Is Enough?

By Ralph Masi (Washington Times)

September 30, 2003: Terrorism in India is Not Just an Internal Threat

By Rollie Lal (Financial Times)

September 29, 2003: Swarming -- The Next Face of Battle

By John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt (Aviation Week & Space Technology)

September 26, 2003: Behind the Rhetoric

By Charles Wolf (South China Morning Post)

September 24, 2003: Buying Cheap Chips From China

By Caroline S. Wagner (Asian Wall Street Journal)

September 13, 2003: The Perfect Army for Iraq: NATO

By Robert E. Hunter (New York Times)

September 8, 2003: Talking to Your Child About Kobe

By Mark A. Schuster (Los Angeles Times)

September 3, 2003: A Limited Success

By Nina Hachigian (South China Morning Post)

August 25, 2003: The Real Worry

By Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon (Time Magazine)

August 7, 2003: Fault Lines: Eight Threats to China's Economic Miracle

By Charles Wolf (South China Morning Post)

August 7, 2003: US: Stick to Diplomacy with North Korea, Even If Talks Fail

By Nina Hachigian (The Christian Science Monitor)

August 4, 2003: A Fresh Start Against Terror

By Bruce Berkowitz (New York Times)

August 3, 2003: A Thaw Between Giants

By Rollie Lal (The Baltimore Sun)

July 31, 2003: Hi-tech Hits Asian Politics

By Nina Hachigian and Lily Wu (South China Morning Post)

July 21, 2003: America Needs Europe, to Win Peace in Iraq

By Robert Hunter (Financial Times)

July 20, 2003: The Next Debate: Al Qaeda Link

By Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon (New York Times)

July 18, 2003: The Decision for War Was Still Right

By Charles Wolf, Jr. (Wall Street Journal, European Edition)

July 17, 2003: We've Been Down This Road Before

By James Dobbins (Los Angeles Times)

July 16, 2003: Getting Beyond Boundaries

By William H. Overholt (South China Morning Post)

July 14, 2003: U.S. Foreign Policy Must Include the Eradication of Dangerous Diseases

By Kenneth Shine and Ross Anthony (Modern Healthcare)

July 4, 2003: Be Tougher on Burma Than China

By William H. Overholt (Asian Wall Street Journal)

July/August 2003: Atlantic Monthly and RAND View the Future

By James Thomson (Atlantic Monthly)

June 26, 2003: Sharing of Health-Care Data Needs a Tuneup

By Elizabeth A. McGlynn (Los Angeles Times)

June 13, 2003: America's Record on Nation Building

By James Dobbins and Seth G. Jones (The New York Times)

June 10, 2003: Steps Can Be Taken to Improve Public Healthcare

By Catherine A. Jackson (The Miami Herald)

June 1, 2003: China: Pitfalls on Path of Continued Growth

By Charles Wolf Jr. (Los Angeles Times)

June 1, 2003: Connect the Cops to Connect the Dots

By Brian Michael Jenkins (The San Diego Union Tribune)

May 30, 2003: Time to Mend Fences

By Robert E. Hunter (The Baltimore Sun)

May 26, 2003: Bush Must Ease G-8 Frictions

By Robert E. Hunter (The International Herald Tribune)

May 25, 2003: Mussolini's Ghost

By David Ronfeldt (Los Angeles Times)

May 7, 2003: Hard-earned lessons on nation-building

By Carl Bildt (The International Herald Tribune)

April 28, 2003: Unexploded munitions in U.S.

By Jacqueline Macdonald (United Press International)

April 27, 2003: America must carry the load

By Robert E. Hunter (San Diego Union-Tribune)

April 13, 2003: Now, Back to the Real Threat? The One with Nukes

By Nina Hachigian and Bruce Bennett (Orange County Register)

April 11, 2003: And, Now: The Battle For Peace and Order

By James Dobbins (New York Newsday)

April 7, 2003: Northern Exposure

By Cheryl Benard (Wall Street Journal)

March 24, 2003: All citizens now first responders

By Brian Michael Jenkins (USA Today)

March 19, 2003: Indonesia as a Test Case

By Angel M. Rabasa (The International Herald Tribune)

March 17, 2003: Learn the Lessons: Know the Price of Iraq War Before Fighting Erupts

By Robert Hunter (Defense News)

March 16, 2003: What if we don't attack Iraq?

By Brian Jenkins (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

March 16, 2003: Azores summit a wise move for Bush

By Robert Hunter (San Diego Union-Tribune)

March 7, 2003: N. Korea's threat to S. Korea

By Bruce Bennett (United Press International)

March 2, 2003: Bush, Blair Can Get the Second OK They Want -- And Need

By Robert Hunter (San Diego Union Tribune)

February 23, 2003: How Deep an Ocean?

By Robert Hunter (Newsday)

February 23, 2003: Hope - and the Big 'Ifs'

By Gregory F. Treverton (San Francisco Chronicle)

February 18, 2003: 'Old Europe' and the New NATO

By F. Stephen Larrabee (San Diego Union-Tribune)

February 18, 2003: Europe is Split in a Number of Different Ways

By James Dobbins (Albany Times Union)

February 16, 2003: The Nation: Terrorists' Talk

By Bruce Berkowitz (New York Times)

February 16, 2003: Forum: What's a 'Just War' These Days?

By Terrence K. Kelly (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

February 13, 2003: The Weapons of Mass Creation

By Caroline S. Wagner (Los Angeles Times)

February 9, 2003: Should Uncle Sam Want You?

By Beth Asch (Boston Globe)

February 2, 2003: The Big Difference Between Intelligence and Evidence

By Bruce Berkowitz (Washington Post)

January 30, 2003: Sales Tax on Services? Not So Fast

By Robert A. Levine (Orange County Register)

January 19, 2003: War Or Peace? Why, for now, there will be no war with Iraq

By Gregory F. Treverton (San Francisco Chronicle)

January 17, 2003: Turkey Walks a Tightrope Over Iraq Issues

By F. Stephen Larrabee (Newsday)

January 14, 2003: Four Horrible Choices in North Korea

By Bruce Bennett (San Diego Union-Tribune)

January 6, 2003: Iraqi Oil and the Global Economy

By James T. Bartis (Albany Times-Union)

January 2, 2003: Monitor After-School Programs Carefully

By Megan Beckett (San Diego Union-Tribune)

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