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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY DOUGLAS J. FEITH

2015

"The Fatal Flaw in Obama's Dealings with Iran"
Wall Street Journal
March 11, 2015


"A Radical View of Defense Budget Cuts"
Washington Examiner
February 2, 2015


"The Hidden Hand Behind American Foreign Policy"
Wall Street Journal
January 23, 2015


2014

"Root Out Extremist Ideology" within "Six Strategies Obama Could Use to Fight the Islamic State"
Politico Magazine
August 29, 2014


"What Hamas Leaders Think"
National Review Online (with Trevor N. Parkes)
August 6, 2014


"How to Isolate Allies and Reward Enemies"
Foregn Policy
July 25, 2014


"Book Review: 'Jabotisnky' by Hillel Halkin"
Wall Street Journal
May 30, 2014


Letter to the Editor: "Just the Facts"
Foreign Affairs (with John Fonte and Jon Kyl)
March-April 2014


"The Temptation of Vladimir Putin"
Wall Street Journal
March 5, 2014


2013

"Sanctions on Iran Won't Be Cranked Back Up"
Wall Street Journal
November 19, 2013


"Obama Logic: Dictators Don't Kill People, Chemical Weapons Do"
The Corner - National Review Online
October 31, 2013


"A Very Productive Chemical-Weapons Attack"
Wall Street Journal
September 17, 2013


"The War of Law"
Foreign Affairs (with John Fonte and Jon Kyl)
July-August 2013


"Pondering Lessons of the Iraq War"
USA Today
March 30, 2013


"Obama's "Nuclear Zero" Rhetoric is Dangerous"
Washington Post (with Frank J. Gaffney, James A. Lyons, and R. James Woolsey)
March 29, 2013


"Feith Signs Letter to President Obama on Nuclear Cuts"
Center for Security Policy
February 22, 2013


"Missing Peace"
Foreign Policy (online)
January 21, 2013


2012

"A Foreign Policy Failure to Acknowledge the Obvious"
Wall Street Journal (with Seth Cropsey)
October 19, 2012


"How the Russian 'Reset' Explains Obama's Foreign Policy"
Foreign Policy (with Seth Cropsey)
October 16, 2012


"Fatal Arab Spring"
A National Review Online Symposium (with Seth Cropsey)
September 13, 2012


"Would Romney be better for Israel"
Politico
July 30, 2012


"Feith Signs Letter to President Obama on Syria"
Foreign Policy Initiative and Foundation for Defense of Democracies
July 24, 2012


"Obama Lets the U.N. Ties His Hands on Syria"
Wall Street Journal
July 16, 2012


"Organizing for a Strategic Ideas Campaign to Counter Ideological Challenges to U.S. National Security"
Hudson Institute Report (with William A. Galston and Abram N. Shulsky)
April 2012


"Obama's Failure to Lead"
National Review Online (with Seth Cropsey)
February 24, 2012


2011

"Feith Signs Letter to President Obama on Syria"
Foreign Policy Initiative and Foundation for Defense of Democracies
December 19, 2011


"Fred Iklé: Missile Defense Champion"
Wall Street Journal (with Richard Perle)
November 18, 2011


"Israel Should be a U.S. Campaign Issue"
Wall Street Journal
November 2, 2011


"A Referendum on Obama and Israel"
New York Daily News (with Seth Cropsey)
September 12, 2011


"The Obama Doctrine Defined"
Commentary (with Seth Cropsey)
July 2011


"A Rapidly Changing World: An Interview with Douglas Feith"
inFocus Quarterly
Winter 2011


Transcript from interview about Libya
CNN's Global Public Square
March 23, 2011


"Obama Embraces 'Transnational' Law"
Wall Street Journal
March 23, 2011


"Dictators and Hedgehogs"
National Review Online
February 8, 2011


2010

"Groundhog Day on U.S.-Russia Arms Control"
Wall Street Journal
December 13, 2010


"Countering Islamist Extremist Ideology"
Lecture before the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Transatlantic & International Security and the Henry Jackson Society
British House of Commons
November 10, 2010


"Can Israel Be Jewish and Democratic?"
Wall Street Journal
October 25, 2010


"A Responsibility to Explain Why Iraq Matters"
National Review Online
September 1, 2010


"Commemoration of 70th Anniversary of Death of Vladimir Jabotinsky"
Lecture at Park East Synagogue, New York, NY
August 18, 2010


"The Dangerous Illusion of 'Nuclear Zero'"
Wall Street Journal (with Abram N. Shulsky)
May 21, 2010


"START the Debate"
National Security Policy Proceedings
Spring 2010

"The Worst Crisis in 35 Years?"
A National Review Online Symposium on US-Israel Relations
March 17, 2010


"Organizing the U.S. Government to Counter Hostile Ideologies"
Hudson Institute Report (with Abram N. Shulsky)
March 2010

"Israel's Secret"
Book review of Startup Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
Weekly Standard
January 25, 2010

2009

"Why Revive the Cold War?"
The Wall Street Journal (with Abram N. Shulsky)
August 4, 2009

"START Treaty Renewal and America's Strategic Posture"
Hudson Institute Paper (with Jack David and Abram N. Shulsky)
July 2, 2009


"It Ain't Necessarily Unnecessary"
A review of Richard Haass's War of Necessity, War of Choice
Washington Times
June 23, 2009

"Must-y Cairo Rhetoric"
Washington Times
June 11, 2009


"How to Win the Long, Hard Slog"
The Wall Street Journal
May 21, 2009

"Spain Has No Right to Try U.S. Officials"
The Wall Street Journal
April 3, 2009


"Radio-Free Swat Valley"
New York Times (with Justin Polin)
March 30, 2009


"International Negotiations: A Tool to Serve Our Interests"
Hudson Institute: Perspectives for the New Administration (with Christopher Ford)
January 2009

2008

War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Harper, New York, NY
Hardcover Released April 8, 2008; Paperback Released February 3, 2009

"India Is a Key Alley in the War on Terror"
The Wall Street Journal
December 9, 2008


"On Journalism and National Security"
Address to the Seventh Annual David Bar-Illan Conference on the Media and the Middle East
November 23, 2008

Reprinted in the Jerusalem Post

"A Model War Correspondent"
A review of Dexter Filkins's The Forever War
National Review
November 17, 2008


"Legislation's Limits"
New York Times
April 8, 2008

2007

"Inside the Inside Story"
A review of George Tenet's At the Center of the Storm
The Wall Street Journal
May 6, 2007

"Tough Questions We Were Right to Ask"
Washington Post
February 14, 2007


2006

"The Donald Rumsfeld I Know"
Washington Post
November 12, 2006

2005

"Douglas J. Feith Farewell Ceremony"
Remarks at the Pentagon Auditorium, Arlington, VA
August 8, 2005


"Invest in Solidarity"
Wall Street Journal
April 18, 2005

"Civil Liberties, Civil Society, and Civility"
Speech before the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
March 3, 2005


"Freedom, Safety and Sovereignty"
Speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC
February 17, 2005

2004

"Transformation and Security Cooperation"
Remarks at the ComDef 2004 Conference
National Press Club, Washington, DC
September 8, 2004

"A Smarter Way to Use Our Troops"
Washington Post
August 19, 2004


"A War Plan that Cast a Wider Net"
Washington Post
August 7, 2004

"Remarks at the Dedication of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies Building"
Davis Hall, Fort McNair, Washington DC
June 29, 2004


"The U.S. Global Defense Footprint"
Appearance before the House Armed Services Committee
June 23, 2004

"Conventional Warfare"
The Wall Street Journal
May 24, 2004


"Iraq: One Year Later"
Speech before the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, DC
May 4, 2004

"Freedom, Safety and Sovereignty"
Speech before the Black Sea Security Program
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
April 22, 2004


"U.S. Strategy for the War on Terrorism"
Speech before the Political Union
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
April 14, 2004

2003

"Transforming the U.S. Global Defense Posture"
Speech before the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC
November 24, 2003


"Strategy and the Idea of Freedom"
Speech before the Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC
November 24, 2003

"On the Global War on Terrorism"
Speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington DC
November 13, 2003


"Building Trust in Iraq Today"
Speech before the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC
July 8, 2003


"United States Policy Toward Iraq"
Appearance before the House Committee on International Relations
May 15, 2003

"The Future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization"
Appearance before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
March 27, 2003


"The Future of Iraq"
Appearance before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
February 11, 2003

2002

"Operation Enduring Freedom Update"
Briefing at the Foreign Press Center, Washington, DC
October 8, 2002

"Transforming the US-India Defense and Security Relationship"
Speech before the US-India Defense Industry Seminar, Washington DC
May 13, 2002


"Fighting Terrorism"
Speech before the American Jewish Committee
May 8, 2002

"The Future of NATO"
Appearance before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
May 1, 2002


"The War on Terrorism - America's War and Israel's War"
Speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
April 21, 2002

"The Future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization"
Appearance before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
February 28, 2002


"Results of the Nuclear Posture Review"
Appearance before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
February 14, 2002

2001

"The Administration's Missile Defense Program and the ABM Treaty"
Appearance before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
July 24, 2001

"Confirmation Hearing - Nomination of Douglas J. Feith as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy"
Senate Committee on Armed Services
June 5, 2001


2000

"Go Ahead"
The New Republic
September 11, 2000


"Memorandum of Law: Did the ABM Treaty of 1972 Remain in Force after the USSR Ceased to Exist in December 1991 and Did It Become a Treaty Between the United States and the Russian Federation?" (with George Miron)
in ed.,The Conference on the Legal Status of the ABM Treaty
June 1, 2000

1999

"The Legal Status of the ABM Treaty"
Appearance before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
May 25, 1999

"Wye and the Road to War"
Commentary
January 1999


1998

"Live Missiles and Dead Letters"
National Review
August 3, 1998

"Before the Next Crisis: Support Saddam's Opposition"
Jerusalem Post
March 20, 1998


1997

"Churchill, Palestine and Zionism, 1904-1922"
in Churchill As Peacemaker, ed. James W. Muller
Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Cambridge University Press, New York, NY
1997

"A Strategy for Israel"
Commentary
September 1997


"Waiting for Lott's CWC Choice"
Washington Times
April 21, 1997


"Chemical Weapons Convention"
Appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
April 9, 1997

"Chemical Reaction"
The New Republic
March 24, 1997


"Unsettled Conditions in the Holy Land"
Washington Times
February 14, 1997

1996

"Open Up in the Name of the... Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons?"
San Diego Union-Tribune
September 8, 1996

"About as Radical as the Reaganites"
Washington Times
June 18, 1996


"No Alternative to Peace"
Jerusalem Post
March 25, 1996


"Convention on Chemical Weapons"
Appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
March 21, 1996


"The Inner Logic of Israel's Negotiations"
Middle East Quarterly
March 1996

1995

"The Argument Clinton Isn't Making on Bosnia"
Wall Street Journal (with Paul Wolfowitz)
November 28, 1995


"To Promote Peace, Move the Embassy"
New York Times
May 29, 1995

"Blowing Smoke About Making Deadly Gas"
Washington Times
May 9, 1995


"Policing the Golan? No."
The National Interest
Winter 1994-1995

1994
"US Forces on the Golan Heights?"
Commentary (co-authored Center for Security Policy report)
December 1994

"Toxic Treaty"

The New Republic (with Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.)
September 5, 1994

"Land for No Peace"
Commentary
June 1994


"The East Bank"
The New Republic
May 16, 1994


1993

"A Mandate for Israel"
The National Interest
Fall 1993

"The Big Picture is Bad"

Jerusalem Post
September 23, 1993

1991

"Mideast Peace under Arabs' Control"
Wall Street Journal
November 29, 1991


"Land for Peace IV: The Sorry Sequel"
Jerusalem Post
August 12, 1991

"An Alliance that Threatens World Order"

Jerusalem Post
May 30, 1991

1990

"Accepted Wisdom Takes a Beating"
Jerusalem Post
December 7, 1990

"Of Lions, Lambs, and Ostriches"
Jerusalem Post
March 23, 1990


1988

"Poison Gas, Poisoned Treaties"
New York Times (with Amoretta M. Hoeber)
December 6, 1988


"Bad Deal for Israel"
The New Republic
April 25, 1988

"INF: Does anyone care what the Soviets think?"
Christian Science Monitor (with Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.)
April 6, 1988


1986

"Review of Arms Control and Disarmament Activities"
Appearance before the Special Panel on Arms Control and Disarmament of the House Armed Services Procurement and Military Nuclear Systems Subcommittee
May 8, 1986


"Protocol I: Moving Humanitarian Law Backwards"
Akron Law Review
Spring 1986

1985

"Law in the Service of Terror"
The National Interest
Fall 1985

1984

"Chemical Warfare: Arms Control and Nonproliferation"
Appearance before a joint hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Government Processes
June 28, 1984

1981

"The Oil Weapon De-Mystified"
Policy Review
Winter 1981