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Anthony Cordesman, adviser to Gen. McChrystal, writes in the Washington Post:
McChrystal has not announced a need for more U.S. troops, but almost every expert on the scene has talked about figures equivalent to three to eight more brigade combat t...
Interesting piece from Walter Pincus reflecting anxiety within CIA that the nation will lose intelligence now that the Obama administration is requiring the CIA to use the Army Field Manual on Interrogations as a template for questioning detainees. T...
From a press conference the defense secretary held in Kabul:
First, I think that the Taliban in Pakistan overreached with their offensive in Buner district, coming within dozens of kilometers of...
Hamid Karzai can take comfort as he comes to Washington this week from the fact that Nangahar governor/warlord Gul Agha Shirzai won't run for the Afghan presidency. Matthew Rosenberg of the Wall Street Journal gets a great quote...
You know how the Sarah Palin Parking Lot is always telling liberals that they’re intimidated by strong conservative women like Palin? Well, via ThinkProgress, here’s Glenn Beck on why he won’t join a Palin 2012 ticket:
BECK: Please can we not?...
My holiday reading is Nicholas Thompson’s The Hawk and The Dove, a Cold War history told through dual biography of George Kennan and Thompson’s grandfather Paul Nitze. I’ve been interested in the Kennan-Nitze relationship ever since (1) Lloyd Gardner’s...
I didn’t really follow the Obama China trip, but it did seem strange to me that the president went to China without even the apparent desire to yield a substantive policy achievement. Still, James Fallows has been arguing at great length that there...
Justin Elliott reports:
A federal criminal investigation has touched two House Dems, and another three, along with two Republicans, are under scrutiny by a pair of congressional ethics panels in matters related to the defunct lobbying firm, PMA...
I got a little worked up after Ft. Hood at the suggestion, raised by some on the right, that “political correctness” inhibits the God-given right of American Jews or Christians to inflict collective punishment on American Muslims for Nidal Malik...
