This is a guest post by Jacqueline L. Hazelton. Dr. Hazelton is an assistant professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy at the Naval War College. I asked her to write a brief piece about her new Foreign Affairs essay for the Duck of...
Iraq war
Alex at Yorkshire Ranter has a fantastic post on the MRAP. A taste:Essentially, they are six-wheeled buses surrounded by huge amounts of armour protection of various kinds, intended to be.
Progress!The portion of Baghdad in which Iraqi security forces are in control with minimal help from the American military has grown only slightly in recent months, to just over 8.
The Hashemite dynasty traces its lineage to the prophet Muhammed's grandfather, and in particular to Muhammed's daughter Fatima. The Hashemite played a prominent role in early Islamic politics, and from the 13th century on held the title of Sherif (or Emir) of Mecca. The Hashemite...
I saw Charles Ferguson's documentary "No End in Sight" last night. Here's a clip: The film, unlike many other documentaries that have been made about Iraq, focuses not on the.
Speaking of disciples of Ayn Rand:AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.In.
I certainly expected Bush's speech to contain an element of Disney-esue fantasy, but I must admit that I'm somewhat surprised to see that The Decider apparently can't count:Oddly, he thanked "the 36 nations who have troops on the ground in Iraq." At the peak of...
NYT:When top Democratic leaders visited him at the White House this week, President Bush told them he wanted to "find common ground" on Iraq. But when the president said he.
Matt hits the nail on the head:And reading Pollack & Pascual write about it, on some level I agree with them. As they say, probably if we made a big.
Kenneth Waltz, via Travis Sharp:To say that militarily strong states are feeble because they cannot easily bring order to minor states is like saying that a pneumatic hammer is weak because it is not suitable for drilling decayed teeth.
Reading this Michael Gordon piece, I'm struck by the extent to which the strategy of allying with Sunni tribes amounts to a renunciation of US state-building aims in Iraq. Put.
There was a high powered panel this morning at APSA on strategic withdrawal from Iraq. It included James Wirtz of the Naval War College, John Mearsheimer, Juan Cole, and Stephen.