Colin H. Kahl

The Myth of the AI Race

Neither America nor China Can Achieve True Tech Dominance

Colin H. Kahl

January 12, 2026

The Real AI Race

America Needs More Than Innovation to Compete With China

Colin H. Kahl and Jim Mitre

July 9, 2025

America Is Winning the Race for Global AI Primacy—for Now

To Stay Ahead of China, Trump Must Build on Biden’s Work

Colin H. Kahl

January 17, 2025

Pompeo’s Dangerous Delusions

What the Trump Administration’s Iran Policy Gets Wrong

Colin H. Kahl

October 24, 2018

Risky Business

Why Iran’s Nuclear Demands Could Backfire

Colin H. Kahl

June 9, 2014

Still Not Time to Attack Iran

Why the U.S. Shouldn’t Play Chicken with Tehran

Colin H. Kahl

January 7, 2014

Iran and the Bomb

Would a Nuclear Iran Make the Middle East More Secure?

Colin H. Kahl and Kenneth N. Waltz

Response Sept/Oct 2012

Not Time to Attack Iran

Why War Should Be a Last Resort

Colin H. Kahl

Response Mar/Apr 2012

When to Leave Iraq

Today, Tomorrow, or Yesterday?

Colin H. Kahl and William E. Odom

Response July/Aug 2008

COIN of the Realm

Is There a Future for Counterinsurgency?

Colin H. Kahl

Review Essay Nov/Dec 2007

How We Fight

Colin H. Kahl

Nov/Dec 2006