My WPR column this week is on the future of the JSDF: As with all military organizations, the JSDF will face conflicting priorities in the future. On the one hand, the growing power of China will push Japan toward high-end military capabilities designed to fight...
Author: Robert Farley
Call me crazy, but I suspect that it's probably possible to make a case against intervention in Libya without referring to Rice, Clinton, and Power as "the Three Harpies." UPDATE.
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Some notes of caution on these sentiments from Matthew Yglesias... Note that if you want to go to law school, getting good grades in college is probably important. If you want to be a writer, then writing stuff that’s interesting and getting professional writers to...
Misrata's current situation remains a very large problem in any de facto partition scheme: The Libyan port city of Misrata was one of the first urban areas to fall to.
Gbago gone: Forces of president-elect Alassane Ouattara arrested outoing President Laurent Gbagbo at his residence in Abidjan on Monday, after an assault on the compound that involved French and U.N..
For your pleasure: Long, interesting post from Dmitry Gorenburg on conflict at the Russian Academy of Military Sciences. I suspect that Hamas and Hezbollah will be delighted by the opportunity to bleed Israel of $25000 at will. Tactically impressive, but quite likely to be a...
Interesting claim: And then he goes on to estimate the mass and coverage of gold, diamonds, and other treasure for a current street value of $8.6 billion. So Bilbo Baggins,.
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My WPR column this week is on American Exceptionalism: Does the United States have a special responsibility to manage international affairs? This question has come to inform much of the debate about the role that the U.S. is currently playing in military operations over Libya....
This is no good: Toyota said Monday it is inevitable the company will be forced to shut down all of its North American factories — including its largest, in Georgetown.
Understanding Society.