What Weinstein said: Funny thing is, plenty of stuff will be missing from the Pentagon's "bottom line"...and plenty more questions will go unanswered. That's pretty much the norm: Pro-military politicians, defense contractors, and military brass alike tend to defend their federal dollars with patriotic rhetoric...
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Very interesting finding, via the Monkey Cage: Whereas the vast majority of successful coups before 1990 installed their leaders durably in power, between 1991 and 2001 the picture reverses, with.
And so, huh. Wow. ...suggestion seems to be that the military will take power. Interesting. In the long run, I think it matters A LOT that this went down with.
PTJ has an interesting idea: I did a little digging and thus far have been completely unable to locate something that I would have thought that someone would have already assembled: an online searchable database that mapped adviser-advisee relationships in IR. So far as I...
Yglesias: People generally understand that the domestic politics of a large liberal democracy reflect a contending set of interests in which the controlling coalition need have no relationship to the.
My WPR column this week is really an elaboration of Charli's post from last week: The integration of Egyptian soldiers into an international community of professional military officers has inevitably.
Interesting. At my junior high (the illustrious Moss Junior High School), US history paid a bit of attention to strategic issues in the Mexican-American War, a bit of attention to tactical issues in the Vietnam War (one of our history teachers was a Vietnam vet),...
I will grant that there's a certain courage in a Kentucky Senator lauding Cassius Marcellus Clay over Henry Clay: “As long as I sit at Henry Clay’s desk, I will.
It's kind of a minor point, but if a Democratic Senator made a similar error (especially in the context of arguing for military disengagement) I suspect that we'd hear no.
Last night I appeared on Alyona to talk about the new Michael Hastings article on David Petraeus:
Sad to see Open Left close its doors.
At WPR, I give some thought to how a shift in Egypt's political orientation might matter for the region militarily: What would an Egyptian army look like under a democratic.