... or at least as a one-sided Cold War, with the leader of the other side focused on his dreams of a Moscow hotel and hoping for another electoral assist. If you haven't seen it yet, you should read this New York Times story, which...
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Very interesting finding, via the Monkey Cage: Whereas the vast majority of successful coups before 1990 installed their leaders durably in power, between 1991 and 2001 the picture reverses, with.
My WPR column this week is really an elaboration of Charli's post from last week: The integration of Egyptian soldiers into an international community of professional military officers has inevitably.
As of 2 hours ago, he is said to have offered it. According to Jon Western: This can not end well for McChrystal. He has a lot of support here, but this crossed so many lines-- civil-military relations, leadership judgment, command authority, the raunchiness of...
Lt. Gen. Michael Oates is worried that excessive adherence to war law might be undermining military effectiveness in Afghanistan: Commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan have been reluctant to launch more.
The US intelligence analyst who leaked the footage that resulted in Wikileaks' infamous "Collateral Murder" video has been outed by a hacker to whom he boasted of his actions online,.
This from a new report described in the Army Times: Troubling new data show there are an average of 950 suicide attempts each month by veterans who are receiving some type of treatment from the Veterans Affairs Department. Seven percent of the attempts are successful,...
Not the first time pirates have lost their lives in a hijack attempt or rescue operation in the Gulf of Aden. But the press is making a big deal of.
This is in the fresh issue of Strategic Studies Quarterly. (HT to MacGregor Eddy.) In sum: America’s nuclear security can rest easily on a relatively small number of counterforce and.
The DoD's updated rules of engagement in Afghanistan beg the question. These rules - such as holding your fire unless you are certain a target is an actual combatant, withdrawing from fire-fights in civilian-populated areas, more reliance on ground troops and less on air raids...
I've been thinking this weekend about Gary Solis' WAPO op-ed of Friday about CIA drone pilots being unlawful combatants - unlike drone pilots serving in the US armed forces who.