I appreciate international society's need for mercenary companies. Developing military institutions is difficult and time consuming, and even though mercenaries are expensive, they can provide short term emergency relief. Mercenaries have been a part of the domestic and international scene since time immemorial, and they've...
Iraq war
This is kind of cool:Eminent economists have told Queen Elizabeth II that the global financial downturn was brought about by a "psychology of denial" among the financial and political elite,.
This story summarizes an investigation into why 14 soldiers from one army base in Colorado have been convicted of or charged with 11 murders and two attempted murders over a.
This is the third installment of a seven part series on the Patterson School's Summer Reading List.World of Nations, William KeylorThe Bottom Billion, Paul CollierHide and Seek, Charles DuelferCharles Duelfer worked for UNSCOM, the agency that investigated Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions mandating the elimination...
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.Homer: Thank you, dear.Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this.
Ezra highlights Tom Ricks' post on trouble at the Army War College. The Army War College, like its Navy counterpart, employs primarily civilian academics to produce research and to furnish.
Just got this breathless press release from the McCain campaign:BARACK OBAMA SAID IT!: "There's No Doubt That General Petraeus Does Not Want A Timetable"Barack ObamaMedia AvailabilityAmman, JordanJuly 22, 2008Barack Obama: "In terms of my conversations with General Petraeus, there's no doubt that General Petraeus does...
Shorter Derb: All of your country are belong to us now. Verbatim Derb:We should tell Maliki, loudly and in public, that he owes his job to us, and that further.
Andrew McCarthy on how Maliki is an Iranian stooge and lousy ingrate:As I've mentioned before, Maliki, of the Shiite Dawa Party which opposed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq in.
Atrios makes a point:From the perspective of US as imperial power the "'single-minded' focus on Iraq" has also been an utter disaster. For those who think that one way or another the US should be throwing its weight around everywhere (by invading random countries, by...
Michael O'Hanlon is displeased:Michael E. O'Hanlon, a Democratic defense analyst at the Brookings Institution who has been an outspoken supporter of the war in Iraq, said he could not believe.
In Just War Thinking, Eric Patterson sets out to revitalize Just War theory, which he believes has become a moribund intellectual project. Rather than a living and innovative body of.