For what it's worth, the heir to the Libyan throne seems to be on the right side of history: Muhammad bin Sayyid Hassan as- Senussi, who would be Libya’s crown prince if the country still had a monarchy, said the people who were “killed by...
Author: Robert Farley
There's a lot of interesting stuff out on the utility of a no fly zone over Libya; I'd recommend Spencer, David Axe, Adam Elkus, and Magnus to start. The operational.
Some thoughts on the maritime aspects of the uprisings in North Africa: Moving forward, naval forces may perform a larger role in the eventual outcome in Libya. Military intervention of.
It's always nice to see conservative anti-immigration rhetoric boil down to the question of brown people speaking funny languages: I’m at a hearing of the immigration subcommittee, and the pseudo-congressman from Puerto Rico is going on about how “we” are a nation of immigrants. “We”?...
Bernstein: It seems to me that one of the biggest differences between the current budget battle and the budget wars of the past (specifically the 1980s through Bill Clinton's first.
This is as fine a likeness of Mr. Matthew Duss as I've ever seen:
In a little over an hour, we'll find out whether our next generation of in-flight tanker will be a decent plane built by decent, hard-working Americans, or a somewhat better plane built on the backs of exploited, unionized Europeans (along with a few decent, hard-working...
My WPR column this week puts a cap on Thucydipalooza: Thucydides is nearly ubiquitous in the serious and general study of American foreign policy. Although we lack good statistics for.
This is quite interesting, questioning the argument that factionalism among Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution reflected different class or ideological backgrounds: The work teams that were sent into Beijing's.
This is quite bad: At approximately 1 a.m. EST today, while negotiations were ongoing to secure the release of four American hostages, U.S. forces responded to gunfire aboard the pirated vessel (S/V) Quest. As they responded to the gunfire, reaching and boarding the Quest, the...
I'm embarrassed that I didn't see this until three days ago:
The Thucydides conference is now over, although I still feel like a snake that’s swallowed a water buffalo. Some takeaways; I also have thoughts on Thucydidean maritime matters at Information.