I was on the Alyona Show again yesterday, representing the Queen City: Subject was the Taliban negotiator impostor incident in Afghanistan.
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I went on the Alyona Show yesterday to discuss a book I haven't read: To elaborate a bit, I think that it's correct to say that the President could have.
Our last commander in Afghanistan was an avowed fan of Bud Light Lime. His replacement? Despite admitting that he has not purchased a compact disc in years, General David Petraeus.
This is interesting for a couple of reasons: Nato and the United Nations are cautiously considering a Taliban proposal to set up a joint commission to investigate allegations of civilians being killed and wounded in the conflict in Afghanistan, diplomats in Kabul have told The...
Ackerman: You eat at enough DFACs and you’re going to see some awesomely bad Armed Forces Network commercials. One series that I actually like features MLB players, vets and managers.
I have an article up at Right Web on conservatives and civilian control of the military: The reaction of right-wing elites to the cashiering of McChrystal represents a genuine improvement.
Noah Shachtman's article on USAF targeting procedures in Afghanistan is worth re-reading. ... despite some speculation to the contrary, it appears that David Petraeus will retain the restrictions described in the above article.
It's true -- Time really is using a graphic image of horrible abuse by the Taliban that happened during the U.S. occupation as a reason to stay there forever with,.
This is the sixth installment of an eight part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen The Limits of Power,.
This seems optimistic: As you may have heard, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is in the news again, and not in a good way, with reports of a speech he made in Connecticut referring to the war in Afghanistan as "a war of Obama's...
While I'm on the subject of Tom Ricks... Last month, Tom Ricks visited the Patterson School and gave a couple of talks about Iraq. One talk was for the Patterson.
Yglesias links to an interesting article by Sheri Berman on the relevance of early modern state-building to policy in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think it would be fantastic if some.