Diplomacy gone astray / Edward Cuddy -- Too many overseas bases / David Vine -- Obama's empire / Catherine Lutz -- Two cheers for the US empire / Thomas Donnelly -- The American non-empire / Ed Morrissey -- Obama to confront limits of America's overstretched military / Anna Mulrine -- The American awakening / Dexter Filkins -- Debating Afghanistan / Paul R. Pillar and John Nagl -- Obama doesn't make a case for more troops / The Orange County Register -- Obama's surge / Commonweal -- The West can encourage legitimacy and accountability / Aziz Hakimi -- The slog of war / Nir Rosen -- How deep in after we're out? / Frank Oliveri -- Extending our stay in Iraq / Thomas E. Ricks -- The rationale for keeping U.S. forces in Iraq / Jeremy R. Hammond -- Doomsday in Iraq, is it really just around the corner? / Tom Engelhardt -- Hope and change in Iraq / Reuel Marc Gerecht -- Long goodbye, but goodbye / Palm Beach Post -- Rebirth of a nation / Babak Dehghanpisheh, John Barry, and Christopher Dickey --

Triumph of the Turks / Owen Matthews and Christopher Dickey -- The army is beaten / Owen Matthews -- Testy Erdogan / The Economist -- The status of U.S. nuclear weapons in Turkey / Alexandra Bell and Benjamin Loehrke -- Unwelcomed missiles / Feryaz Ocakli and Yelena Biberman -- U.S. forces: basics of the U.S. military presence / Reiji Yoshida -- The new battle of Okinawa / The Economist -- Is defence treaty with US set to collapse? / David McNeill -- Japan balks at $2 billion bill to host U.S. troops / Eric Talmadge -- A changed Japanese diplomacy? / Anthony Rowley -- The power of Japan / Karen Sue Smith -- USFK seeks to expand role outside peninsula / Jung Sung-ki -- Letting go / Doug Bandow -- S. Korea expands modern forces as it seeks great security role / Asia Pulse -- New US command / Korea Times.