Weaning Ourselves Off War in the Middle East? Or Preparing for Israel’s War?
Gary Sick speculates that all the seeming confusion in the Obama Administration’s policy on Iran may be an attempt to create political space to shift our policy on Iran. After laying out some Leon...
View ArticleChain of Command: Some Violations of Military Discipline Are More Equal Than...
The other day, Teddy Partridge noted a second instance of someone in the military–the previous one being the Commander-in-Chief–weighing in on Bradley Manning’s guilt. Echoing his commander in chief in...
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Afghan Special Forces Soldier Joins Parade of “Isolated Incidents”, Kills US...
Joint Chiefs Chair General Martin Dempsey visiting the training center for Afghan special forces on Monday of this week. An Afghan special forces member killed his US mentor on Friday. (DoD photo) As...
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Human Rights First Reminds General Dempsey that Geneva Conventions Still in...
I had meant to link to and comment on the Danger Room piece on the group of officers teaching “total war” against Islam at the Joint Staff War College. For the better part of the last decade, a small...
View ArticleThe Commercial for John Brennan’s Signature Strike Drone Shop TADS
Between them, the NYT and the Daily Beast published over 10,000 words on Obama’s drone assassination program yesterday. Both stories rolled out the new acronym the Administration wants us to use:...
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NATO: “Afghanistan Will Not Unravel After Withdrawal”— Probably Because It’s...
Overall force size, recruitment and attrition for the Afghanistan National Army from latest DoD report. The situation in Afghanistan is falling apart so quickly and so dramatically that a senior NATO...
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Dempsey Photo-Op With Karzai Illustrates Futility of SOFA Negotiations
Dempsey and Karzai pose for the cameras while their countries come no closer to an agreement keeping US troops in Afghanistan. (Defense Department photo) As the Afghanistan disaster careens closer to...
View ArticleLessons from Today’s Senate Hearing on Syria
Lesson #1: We’re going to war so we don’t lose some friends John Kerry twice said that if we don’t bomb Assad we’ll lose friends and/or allies. “If we fail to act we’ll have fewer allies.” That...
View ArticleParallel Processing: AUMF Assad Spanking and Then Article II Regime Change
There’s a fundamental dishonesty in the debate about Syria derived from treating the authorization to punish Bashar al-Assad for chemical weapons use in isolation from the Administration’s acknowledged...
View ArticleUS Wants BSA Signature No Matter What It Takes
On the very same day that a member Congress stated that Middle Eastern cultures routinely lie during negotiations, several US senior officials suggested dishonest ways of working around Hamid Karzai’s...
View ArticleAbdullah Becomes Serial Quitter While Dempsey Continues Denying Reality
The last 24 hours in Afghanistan are a perfect summation of the insanity imposed by endless US occupation. On the election recount front, after warning for several days that he might do so, Abdullah...
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