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- Nexus and Eve of Destruction: Lessons in Change - December 10, 2008
- Put both books on Barack Obama's Christmas reading lists -- put them in the stocking marked "Strategic Guidance Regarding Change." Winkler's book provides...
- Mumbai: The Terrorists' Gambit - December 3, 2008
- India's outrage has deep roots. Islamist terrorists likely connected to Pakistan have struck Mumbai many times, with attacks in 1993 and 2006 particularly...
- The Pirates of Puntland - November 26, 2008
- From a sea crook's perspective, a freighter fleet and $30 million in cash isn't a problem, it's success. The cash roll may seem small by Wall Street bailout...
- Background to the Iraqi-U.S. Security Agreements - November 19, 2008
- The second event occurred in spring 2008: the Iraqi Army's Operation Charge of the Knights. Declared an immediate failure by an overwhelming majority of the...
- Obama's Great Expectations Encounter Sudan - November 12, 2008
- In 2002, the New Sudan Council of Churches published a handbook titled "The Story of People to People Peacemaking in Southern Sudan." I picked up a copy in a...
- The Counter-Terror Raid on Sukkariyah, Syria - October 29, 2008
- The raid also entailed political risks. Syria howled, Russia yelped, even Iraq deplored it -- but that is surface political rhetoric. For five years, Iraqis...
- The International Crisis Testing Obama's Mettle - October 22, 2008
- Gomer Pyle's kitsch litany (from "The Andy Griffith Show") will damn us once again: "Surprise, surprise, surprise." Pyle's flabbergast served as a...
- The Next President's Iraq War - October 15, 2008
- Iraq's organizational advantage has two components. First and foremost Iraq engages Iran with the U.S. as an active ally -- unless the next U.S. president...
- Into Africom - October 8, 2008
- Budgeteers and Cold War strategists made a bottom-line argument for the division. During the Cold War, Africa was an "economy of force" theater, with Europe and...
- Historians at War - October 1, 2008
- One problem in implementation was the failure to provide "stipends" -- pay for Iraqi soldiers. Feith writes, with profound understatement, that "that would...
- The Media's Trillion-Dollar Question - September 17, 2008
- New and old media both provide the good, the dreck, the quality and the schlock. New technology does create new opportunities for sharing...
- Bin Laden's Slow Rot - September 10, 2008
- Seven years ago, Osama bin Laden was a Big Man on the planet, a bearded stud with a Himalayan reputation among young Muslim militants from Morocco to Indonesia. Now,...
- Time to Go Nuclear - September 3, 2008
- Das Leben Wahlen is printed in German Green Party green, with a very beautiful leaf. Stop Kernenergie appears in stark black and white, with a huge X over a...
- Tsar Wars Versus Star Wars - August 27, 2008
- These goals would also resonate in an "Old History" of Russia -- call it Tsar Wars, with Ivan the Terrible as the featured personality. Personalizing...
- Crime and Warfare: An Anatomy of Terror - August 20, 2008
- The Colombian people knew it. In early February 2008, The New York Times quoted a Colombian citizen who was participating in an anti-FARC demonstration held in downtown...
- The Russo-Georgia War's Dire Diplomatic Aftermath - August 13, 2008
- Nonetheless, a complex and dire diplomatic and political aftermath is upon us. The aggressive, ultra-nationalist Russia has clearly emerged. James...
- "Rheostat Warfare": An Interview With Gen. David Petraeus - August 6, 2008
- At one point, I suggested that the military-diplomatic "tandem" of Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker provides a model for improving "unified action."...
- Challenges of the Muslim World: Oil, Testosterone and War - July 30, 2008
- The book is not a political polemic -- it is penetrating scholarship addressing persistent, fundamental structural issues that defy polemics. It analyzes problems that...
- Iraqi Victory, Defeat for McCain? - July 23, 2008
- In a recent column, I referenced the "Strategic Overwatch" video that appeared on the Internet the first week of June. "Overwatch" is a military term. At the tactical...
- Darfur's J'Accuse! - July 16, 2008
- This week, a senior International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor decided to seek an arrest warrant for Sudan's noxious leader, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. The prosecutor...
- Obama's War Change: Hope for Iraq? - July 9, 2008
- Fair bet Obama holds firm with one personality, however: bomb-wielding terrorist, connected elite and hard-left political radical Bill Ayers. Call it a suspicion, based...
- Mugabe the Obscene - RealClearPolitics - June 20, 2008
- Back to Basra - RealClearPolitics - April 23, 2008
- Hear, See, Speak No Progress in Iraq - RealClearPolitics - April 9, 2008
- Whittling Away at Sadr - RealClearPolitics - April 2, 2008