As conditions have deteriorated in Afghanistan in the past several years, academic and military specialists have paid greater attention to the Soviet experience in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, in an effort to support one faction of the People's Democratic Party...
Year: 2010
Kevin Drum likes the idea of not getting hysterical over every terrorist incident, but he's got practical and theoretical objections to an approach that emphasizes the risk from terrorism is.
Every spring, Patterson runs a policy simulation designed to illustrate the difficulty of operating an organization in the context of asymmetric and limited information. Every fall, I run a two.
Jets +2.5 at Bengals. I'm generally inclined to think "Never, ever, EVER back a crappy QB on the road" is a good rule. I'm inclined to make an exception, however, when 1)in a given state of health and offensive context the much more accomplished veteran...
As I am wearing my Northern Ireland top today (coincidental, and I will not be wearing it come the NI v USA friendly) it seems appropriate to wade into this..
I think it's a positive sign that the WSJ published this.On a related note, in the last two days fighter jets have been scrambled twice to "accompany" flights on which.
Jonah Goldberg looks to Domino's Pizza to explain how the GOP might renew itself in 2010 and beyond. I have been staring at the computer for ten minutes now, trying to think of something to add to that. And, I fear, I cannot.
Friday Daddy Blogging... Elisha and Miriam
Attackerman on David Hadju's rant against Rock Band:Oh my God, you stupid motherfucker, shut your idiot mouth. Not a single person who has ever played Rock Band has for a.
I don't really understand this particular criticism of Saban. If they had the ball with under a minute and no timeouts, OK (although, even then, trying to "run up the score" would actually be against your team's interests, so who cares?) But if you can't...
One of the curious aspects of 9/11 is that, in an almost literal way, it somehow didn't happen under the Bush administration's watch. The self-evidence of this "fact" is illustrated.
It's actually kind of impressive how many obvious errors of analysis Charles Lane packs into a few paragraphs here:I can't remember a more breathtaking 48 hours in politics since Barack.