Fred M. Kaplan

Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services....

Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America....

What has happened these past eight years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Daydream Believers explains how George W. Bush and his aides got so far off track....

The U.S. Department of Defense founded a kind of startup in Silicon Valley to accelerate the development and acquisition of new technologies useful to the military. But will it survive President Trump....

Four months into his presidency, at a summit in Prague, Barack Obama pledged to take “concrete steps toward a world without nuclear weapons.” Yet nearly eight years later....

This is a common critique of Obama’s foreign policy: that he evades hard decisions, that he is allergic to military force if it risks American casualties or escalation....

On Friday, January 8, several high-level officials from the Obama administration - including the attorney general, the White House chief of staff, and the directors of the FBI and the NSA....