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  Army reset costs, cost of permanent bases in Iraq, National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, Pakistan's state of emergency by Bipasha Ray. Defense Analysis Bulletin #5, 08 December 2007.
 Dissuading China and Fighting the 'Long War', World Policy Journal. The 2006 US Defense Review advanced two new strategic vectors for the US armed forces - one targets a putative "global Islamic insurgency"; the other puts America on a collison course with China.
US aid to Somalia, counterterrorism in Horn of Africa, results and motivations of terrorism by Bipasha Ray, Defense Analysis Bulletin #3, 07 March 2007.
War & Consequences: Global Terrorism has Increased Since 9/11 Attacks (full text .html) (printable full text .pdf) by Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Memo #38, 25 September 2006. The memo analyzes the change in the incidence of terrorism since 11 September 2001, finding a distinct increase. It also summarizes the findings of various studies on the relationship between the Iraq war and terrorism which show that in the words of one, the Iraq war "has reinforced the determination of terrorists who were already committed to attacking the West and motivated others who were not."
Agonizing Issue: is torture ever justified in military interrogations of terror suspects?, interview with Charles Knight, co-director, Project on Defense Alternatives and Alfred P. Rubin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Law, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, transcript edited by Jim Cronin, The Boston Globe Magazine 30 January 2005. "The United States is now training hundreds, maybe thousands, of new interrogators. Abusive relationships traumatize both the victim and the abuser. We are training and having our own people experience this abuse, and they will be returning home to our communities. We know from domestic abuse that this abusive pattern can be replicated through generations." (printable .pdf file)
Selected Major Terrorist Incidents Worldwide since the conclusion of Operation Enduring Freedom Compiled by Carl Conetta and Melissa Murphy. PDA Briefing Memo #31, 07 January 2004.
Trends in the Incidence of International Terror Attacks on Americans After the Cold War by Charles Knight and Melissa Murphy. PDA Briefing Memo #29, 26 June 2003. A .pdf version is also available.
Correspondence: "The Sources of Terrorism" by Charles Knight and Melissa Murphy, (printable .pdf file) published in International Security, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Fall 2003) pp. 192-195, comment on Michael Mousseau, "Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror, International Security, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Winter 2002/03) pp.5- 29.
Wider War on Terrorism -- its construction in the first year
a chronicle of the war on terrorism from September 2001 through October 2002 with excerpts and links to key articles, documents, and commentary.
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A Success of Democracy? by Charles Knight. A response to Elaine Scarry's Citizenship in Emergency, Boston Review (October/November 2002).
Terrorism, World Order, and Cooperative Security: A research and policy development agenda by Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo #24, 9 September 2002. The war on terrorism is transforming US policy and reshaping global politics. But public debate regarding the campaign -- its strategy and progress -- has been feeble. Likewise, the evaluation of new programs and spending meant to support it has been superficial. This evinces the fact that US policy discourse itself suffered a serious blow on 11 September 2001. The article outlines areas and issues of concern.
Dislocating Alcyoneus: How to combat al-Qaeda and the new terrorism by Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo #23, 25 June 2002. The memo outlines a "strategy of dislocation" for defeating the new terrorism. Al Qaeda is analyzed as a "distributed transnational network" that uses terrorism in order to catalyze political-cultural polarization and mobilization. Published in Hegemonie oder Stabilität: Alternativen zur Militarisierung der Politik, edited by Volker Kröning (MdB), Lutz Unterseher, and Günter Verheugen (Hrsg.) Bremen: Edition Temmen, August 2002.
Cooperative Action Against Terrorism by Carl Conetta, PDA Commentary, October 2001.
Beyond bin Laden: The Temptations
of a Wider War by Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Memo #22, 28 September 2001. Offering a review of US military options in response to 11 September, this article rejects large-scale attacks on Afghanistan due to their likely negative impact on regional stability and international cooperation. As an alternative it proposes smaller-scale military operations against the bin Laden network combined with multinational law enforcement activities worldwide.
What Justifies Military Intervention? commentary by Charles Knight, 27 September 2001. Examines the problems for international security associated with U.S. military intervention abroad. Includes a Postscript on the "war on terrorism" (revised 01 March 2002) and Selected Readings on the doctrines of Just War, Total War, and Strategic Bombing (revised 01 March 2002).
 Fear Itself: Hazards of Massive Retaliation by Neta C. Crawford, PDA Guest Commentary, 14 September 2001.
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