My WPR column this week: The inability of the Afghan Model to manage the post-conflict environment would be a problem even if the coalition was prepared to fully commit to destroying Gadhafi's regime. In the absence of such a commitment, it's very easy to imagine...
Author: Robert Farley
Now this is interesting, from GC at Pileus: President Cleveland faced a pretty hawkish Congress in 1896 due to the perception of an “intolerable” humanitarian disaster taking place in Cuba.
Robert Haddick has predictions: From a military perspective, the coalition air campaign looks to be ahead of plan – the burning tanks near Benghazi show that. But without a quick.
Well, this doesn't seem very bloody impressive: As the military operation continued over Libya on Monday, there was some confusion about which country or organization is actually leading it, and for how long. France, Britain and the United States are in charge of their own...
I am forcibly reminded that I hate Notre Dame, and shouldn't be picking them for any reason. LGM Tourney standings: RNK ENTRY, OWNER R64 R32 S16 E8 FF NCG CHAMPION.
Gaddafi Loyalist forces falling back: Rebel forces, battered and routed by loyalist fighters just the day before, began to regroup in the east as allied warplanes destroyed dozens of government.
This is brilliant. While we at The Monkey Cage are sympathetic to the needs of the NY Times to maintain financial viability in the digital era, the fact that the Times has indeed used our own free digital content in the past (see here, here, or here), we...
As I suggested in a previous post, the Libya operation makes comments like this even more on point: Amongst the most desperately short-sighted decisions of the SDSR was the frankly.
Dear Ann, Thanks for the link! And Meade, it's been great! UPDATE [By SL]: As for the idea that it's "small" to want to not want trolls distracting discussion in.
Some Libya links: USAF assets include F-16C, F-15E, and B-2. No F-22s. There was some excitement on the part of Air Force types regarding the use of the F-22 to enforce the no fly zone, but may not be in the cards. Yet another conflict...
Bryan McGrath is quite right; current operations in Libya are geared not toward creating a "no fly zone," but rather towards establishing air supremacy. The difference between the two.
Peggy Noonan said something insightful. This may well be the most shocking event of 2011 thus far. The biggest takeaway, the biggest foreign-policy fact, of the past decade is this:.