Some Sunday links for your pleasure: Hagel cancels phase IV of European missile defense program. Sure to win him lots of friends with the right people. Some interesting thoughts on specific weapon systems that might change the equation in Syria. The Chinese may project the...
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Some links for your reading pleasure: Watching the inter-agency debate over responsibility for Afghanistan play out should be very interesting. Income inequality and democratic militarism. 155th article on which part.
Cleaning out the ol' Google Reader... Stephen Walt lists "Five Inconvenient Truths" that he wishes American policymakers would tell. See also Walt for a tribute to the late Glenn Snyder..
For your reading pleasure... Marijuana and hemp legalization would undoubtedly be good for Kentucky, but the politics are going to be insane. If you don't like hipsters, just don't write about them; they feed on this kind of thing. I am utterly uninterested in most...
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Some links for your Tuesday: I think that Coach Cal comes off fabulously well here. The article is particularly good on the time horizons problem; coaches/owners/administrators will always have a.
Some Monday morning links... Eritrea having a coup. World Politics Review has a roundup of Mali links. SPS Principe de Asturias heads out to pasture. All Praise New Glorious Leader Helfrich! Thoughts on engagement with the DPRK. Ooh, let's rank stuff! Navies of the Indo-Pacific.......
Apologies for so many of these; wrapping up the book (again), article proofs, consulting work, etc. But you remain my Nth love... Hugo Chavez and flattery inflation. What child soldiering.
Stuff of note: David Axe on how stealth aircraft stay off the radar. Dan Nexon on flexibility and constraint in hegemonic orders. "How many of these fucking Kagans are there?".
Some stuff to digest: Some older data on Iraqi views of the war, and the post-war situation. Don't know if there's anything newer out there, but opinions a year ago were definitely negative. Dick Armey is living the American dream. Alyssa thinks through six alternatives...
Stuff of interest: Air Force looking forward to 6th Generation fighter. My money is on a UAV. Bernstein on when to ignore polls. Wonkbook supplies a bunch of data on.
A bleak sun dawned today over a brutal, unforgiving world. Matt Fay brutalizes Max Boot on the issue of missile defense. More on this later. Nukey nukey! Best tool I've.