Alex Harrowell has an excellent post on how we should think about airpower in the Libyan Civil War. The main point is that the effect of airpower is likely to be felt less in terms of the ability of Gaddafi’s forces to carry out tactical and strategic airstrikes against rebel forces, and more in terms […]
Month: March 2011
A boat with 31 North Korea citizens drifted into South Korea waters and was picked up. North Korea being the kind of place that people sometimes don’t like going back to, four are trying to st
To me, the high point of academic blogging is putting out a request for insight to readers on a specific problem and crowd-sourcing a wealth of useful feedback that helps me be better at what I do tha
You may scoff, but the state of Wisconsin has saved more than $7 million. The strategy involved was “stop making things up.”
Yglesias, on ROTC being permitted back at Harvard now that the military complies with the unviersty’s nondiscrimination policies: I’m eagerly awaiting “guess I was wrong” posts from all th
I find it difficult to express how supportive I am of this project. I can only hope that it reaches fruition before necessity demands that I start Elisha and Miriam on the actual text of On War. Fra
I’m digging out from beneath a pile of student papers at the moment — as well as the consequences of holding the majority of my office hours at the end of the quarter, when the students are revising and can benefit the most — so it took someone else sending me an email to learn […]
Indefensible. I think it’s worth noting as well that this isn’t the case where there’s a clash between civil liberties and compelling political interests — the number of votes
“I wonder who will get the last drop of water in the world.” It’s a fair question.
Today’s installment of “if Aaron Sorkin had made this a plot line in a West Wing script, I would have written a post making fun of him for his didacticism:” Eliminating nearly all the money for poison control centers would save $27 million — not even a rounding error when it comes to the deficit. […]
In addition to declaring the month of March Irish American Heritage Month (because we didn’t have enough positive attention?He needed to solidify the Irish Catholic vote?), Obama is to serve his
Anna Holmes’s article absolutely should be read in its entirety, but the intro really does provide a good window into much of what passes for journamalism in cable news today: FORTY-THREE minute