At the Diplomat, I ruminate on some parallels... In short order, the United States may go to war against Syria in order to send a message about the use of chemical munitions. I’ve written many times in this space about the difficulty of sending clear...
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On the latest Foreign Entanglements, I spoke with Dan Trombly about Syria and sundry:
Looks as if the Syrian military has decided to launch some Scud missiles at rebel positions: Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have fired Scud missiles at rebel fighters in.
I know that there are bigger issues at play in Syria than destroyed old buildings, but this makes me very, very sad. “The Assad government’s primary concern is to destroy the rebels, and the opposition’s fighters want to remove Assad from power,” said Ed Husain,...
Two stories on unconventional weapons in Syria. First, CJ Chivers explains why IEDs matter a lot in the Syrian context: This is where the I.E.D. fits in. Once the armed.
And this is a development: A suicide bomber attacked a building used by security chiefs in central Damascus on Wednesday, state media said, killing the defense minister, Daoud Rajha, the.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has determined that the Syrian Civil War is a internal war, which has a variety of implications for military targeting and legal responsibility. Charli has some initial thoughts on what this means. Robert Chesney has this on regime...
Defections are probably the most serious indication that Assad may be in trouble: Syria’s armed forces have been slowly bleeding defectors and deserters since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
Bernard Finel and I refrain from talking about health care:
A cowardly, mendacious editorial from The New Republic on Syria: To be clear, we do not want to see troops deployed to Syria. We are not arguing for another Iraq or another Afghanistan—both of which have offered cautionary lessons about the limits of American power....
Juan Cole: Well, I hate those US drones when used for purposes of warfare. But here is a Gandhian use for them. Let us defy the Syrian regime’s misuse of.
Mark Leon Goldberg and myself talked Russia-Syria on Wednesday: