While I'm on the subject of Tom Ricks... Last month, Tom Ricks visited the Patterson School and gave a couple of talks about Iraq. One talk was for the Patterson students, and the other for the general public. Because of bad weather, however, most of...
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Yglesias links to an interesting article by Sheri Berman on the relevance of early modern state-building to policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think it would be fantastic if some.
This is a guest post by Dr. Emily Beaulieu, assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky.Contentious elections usually make us nervous. To be sure, elections aren’t the.
First, I don't think that there's quite enough appreciation of this:But the choice between a mindset that says “the main purpose of the military is to scare China & Russia” or a mindset that says “the main purpose of the military is to intervene effectively...
This is positively strange:Iraqi officials have discovered that they may have an air force, after all.The Defense Ministry revealed Sunday that it recently learned that Iraq owns 19 Russian-designed MIG-21.
It turns out that the T-72s carried by the MV Faina (the Ukranian vessels that was seized and held by pirates for several months) weren't destined for Kenya after all:But.
Ackerman:It's a "carnival" in Baghdad, according to the Post's Ernesto Londono, filled with Iraqi troops grinning as they take their lives into their own hands and graffitti writers further south demanding, "Pull your troops from our Basra, we are its sons and want its sovereignty."...
At least one Arab state can be expected to leap to Israel's defense:Of the various premises on which the U.S. invasion of Iraq was sold to the American people, one.
The coup that was probably a purge now turns out maybe to have been a failed purge: Iraq’s interior minister said all 24 of his officers who had been arrested.
Looks like Maliki is moving to consolidate power:Up to 35 officials in the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior ranking as high as general have been arrested over the past three days with some of them accused of quietly working to reconstitute Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party,...
I concur with Ackerman et al that Maliki is taking a very serious gamble by moving against the "Awakening" leadership. The success of the Iraqi Army in Basra and Baghdad.
From Marc Lynch's summary of a US Institute for Peace panel he attended last week.:Finally, Kim Kagan shocked me with a comment made forcefully, twice, once towards the end of.