Iraqi dissident KANAN MAKIYA, a fellow at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a visiting professor at Brandeis, is author of four books on Iraq, among them Republic of Fear, which is widely considered the authoritative account of Saddam Hussein's regime. Born and raised in Iraq, Makiya found that......

MAURICE EISENSTEIN is a former senior staff member and currently a senior consultant on national security matters for the Rand Corporation. He was interviewed by BEN EHRENREICH on what we know about the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons programs. On the chemical side, the Iraqis have demonstrated a capacity to......

GREG TREVERTON is director of the Rand Corporation's International Security and Defense Policy Center. BEN EHRENREICH spoke to him about the nature of weaponry in present-day Iraq and our probable expectations in the current conflict. What we really know about Iraqi weapons production is the situation prior to Desert Storm......

JUDITH YAPHE is an Iraq expert at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. She spoke with CHARLES RAPPLEYE about Saddam Hussein's history and the nature of the Iraqi opposition. Military action in and of itself is highly unlikely to achieve the goal of changing the regime, of getting rid......

DAVID McREYNOLDS is a member of the War Resisters League, a secular international organization formed in 1923 by conscientious objectors who were jailed for their opposition to World War I. He spoke with JUDITH LEWIS about the pacifist viewpoint on the looming conflict. I think pacifists have to be as......

If there were any doubt that the current opposition to U.S. military action against Iraq doesn't amount to very much, consider this: There isn't even any factionalism besetting the movement this time around. There's opposition to the prospect of bombing, of course, and, if you know where to look, that......

MICHAEL WALZER is a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, co-editor of Dissent and author of Just and Unjust Wars, Revolution of the Saints and other works. He spoke with HAROLD MEYERSON about the morality of military action in the Persian Gulf, particularly about......

JAMES STEINBERG is deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs - that is, the top deputy to National Security adviser Sandy Berger. HAROLD MEYERSON spoke with him on Friday, February 13. Harold Meyerson: Does the level of Russian opposition, and other international opposition, to a proposed military action......

It started in the morning as a low rumble, barely audible above the debate of small-arms fire raging between a squad of M1 Abrams tanks and a line of Iraqi soldiers dug into a slender trench nearly one mile long. Soon the source of that rumble, an armor-plated M9 combat......