Alan W. Dowd

Alan W. Dowd is a senior fellow with the Sagamore Institute, senior fellow/senior editor with the Fraser Institute, adjunct professor at Butler University, and contributing editor with The American Legion Magazine, where he writes the Landing Zone column. In each of these roles, he researches and writes widely on U.S. foreign policy, national defense, and international security. His writing appears in a number leading publications, including: World Politics Review, Military Officer, Policy Review, Fraser Forum, Parameters, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Indianapolis Star, National Review Online, VFW Magazine, Current, FrontPage, The American Enterprise, American Outlook and the online editions of The Weekly Standard and The American, among others.

Articles by Alan W. Dowd

• Silver Lining in Afghanistan?
• Reagan's Path to a World without Nukes
• Special Relationship Deepens
• To Bolster Failed States, Support Freedom
• Time for Hormuz Doctrine
• The Pacific Pivot
• Rogue Russia
• Freedom and Failed States
• Counting the Cost of Cuts
• Rogues Gallery
• Another Peace Prize Surprise
• Desert Shield
• On the Brink: Remembering the Cuban Missle Crisis
• Lessons of October
• Into Africa
• The Unthinkable in Syria
• Nightmares in Syria
• Keeping Iran on the Strait and Narrow
• A Helping Hand for the Commander-in-Chief
• Shadow War
• In Defense of Defense
• Cutting Into NATO's Muscle
• Windmill Blowback
• Bouazizi for Time's Person of the Year
• Bouazizi's Revolution
• The Big Chill: Energy Needs Fueling Tensions in the Arctic
• Old Approach to Piracy May be Best Approach
• For Libya, Now Comes the Hard Part
• Obama's Problematic Approach to War
• Time is Running Out in Libya
• Bad Guys Have a Head Start in Cyber Wars
• NATO's Last Mission?
• Problems with Time-Limited War
• Broader Lessons of the bin Laden Strike
• NATO Losing it's Focus
• Whiter the Obama of Hope?
• Power Failure at NATO
• An Old Soldier Fades Away
• Look Who's Leading NATO
• A Disappointing National Security Strategy
• A World Worth Fighting For: The Power and Promise of the Atlantic Charter at 70
• The Bush Doctrine 2.0?
• Obama's Odyssey
• Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Efforts
• Marriages of Convenience
• Meeting the Russia Challenge
• Gadhafi’s Chemical Weapons: A Nightmare Scenario in Libya
• World War 2.0
• Cyber-Peace through Cyber-Strength
• Defense Against the Next Web War
• Calling Up the (Oil) Reserves
• The Fragility of Afghanistan
• 1979, 1989 or 2009?
• A Cold Peace
• AFRICOM
• An Independent Kosovo
• I Knew Two Heroes
• NATO: A work in Progress
• NATO: Forever at the Crossroads
• No Better Friend
• Surrendering Outer Space
• The Forgotten Fronts
• World War Web
• Patience Pays Off?
• The Decline and the Fall of Declinism
• Declinism
• The Energy Challenge
• Rising Declinists:  Is US Influence Waning?
• You Say You Wanna Resolution?
• Mind the Transatlantic Gap
• Full Circle
• The Bush Administration: Act III
• Our Commission-in-Chief
• Opportunity or Disaster?
• Lame Duck or Hawk:  What Bush Can Learn from Bill Clinton
• Tet II: CNN's Partial Picture
• Leading Man
• No Rationale for Kim's Irrationality
• Pakistan's Pseudo-War
• Here We Go Again
• Help Wanted
• Moving On...
• A Purpose-Driven Military?
• "Today, We Begin"
• The War Party
• The Axis Lives
• Melting Pot Military
• Renewal of Vows
• New World Disorder
• Canada Reawakens
• Schizophrenic Secretary?
• Star Wars: The Sequel
• After Zarqawi
• Prime of Life
• Fighting Words
• A Way out of the Fog
• Linked:  Connecting 9/11 and the War in Iraq
• Silent Partners
• Neither Friend Nor Foe
• A Work in Progress
• Polls and Presidents
• Vacancy at the Hague Hotel
• Blowback
• Special Force for a Special Branch
• Take Some Presidential Advice
• Mulligan in the Middle East
• Canada: Don't Tread on Us
• Liberty Takes Root
• Avian Flu: "A Nasty Little Beast"
• On the Offensive
• A Message Written in Steel
• Handle with Care: Iran, Nukes, and War
• Four Years On: A World of Surprises
• The Other Anniversary
• Dark Diary
• America's Historian-in-Chief
• Weapons of Mass Protection
• Lessons in London
• First Principles
• Pension Problems 
• The EU Constitutional Referenda: A Double Negative?
• Wartime Politics
• "American Decline"--Again
• The Exertions of Better Men
• Noise Complaints
• Freedom Writer: An Interview with Feisal Istrabadi
• The EU's Plan B
• We Stand on Guard for Thee?
• Welcoming a Few Good Men
• Missing Pieces: From World War I to WMDs, U.S. history reminds us that intelligence is seldom perfect
• Back from Baghdad:  An Interview with War Correspondent and Author Karl Zinsmeister
• A Different Course?  America and Europe in the 21st Century
• Bill Clinton's Multilateral Fairy Tale
• Continental Rift
• Falling Back?
• Tied Down: The United States and the International Criminal Court
• To Make Men Free:  The September 11 Generation at War
• Baghdad's Untold Story
• After Saddam: Time to Play Good Cop
• Coming UN-done
• America's Doctrine
• Thirteen Years
• Transforming NATO: New Members, New Missions, Old Problems
• Churchill's Echo:  Easy Answers or Hard Choices
• Lawyers and Warriors: Keep Legal Battles off the Battlefield
• In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Causes and Costs of the Bush Doctrine
• A Colder War: Taking the Long View of the War on Terror
• Taking the High Ground
• The Fury and the Infamy
• Civilization's Reluctant Warrior: America and the War on Terror
• Mr. Smith Goes Campaigning
• Lenin's Century
• The Belated Revolution
• NATO After Kosovo: Toward "Europe Whole and Free"
• Is it NATO's Waterloo?
• A Necessary War

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