Robert Haddick has an appropriate degree of skepticism regarding plans to maintain the Libyan Army in case of Gaddafi's fall: The "Bremer Hypothesis" may get another test in Libya, as Mitchell seems determined to learn from the presumed error. Mitchell and his colleagues are assuming...
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Good for them, and especially for the 70 Democrats who refused to issue an ex post facto rubber stamp for the executive branch's latest exercise in foreign policy adventurism. Update:.
My thoughts on Gates' NATO speech: It is worth noting, however, that protection of Libyan civilians through airstrikes sits so far outside NATO's founding purpose that the framers of the.
I've essentially become resigned to executive branch domination of foreign policy -- the only thing that can stop it is for Congress to actually assert its prerogatives, and there's no reason to believe it will do so. Still, the DOJ lawyers were right: the idea...
I suspect we're coming to the end of the road. @RT_com: Medvedev at G8: Gaddafi has lost his legitimacy and must step down See also.
As Rob wrote on Wednesday, Britain and France are deploying attack helicopters to support the mission in Libya. Last night, Radio 4 reported that the British contribution is four Apaches.
Been a while, but apparently there's a war on: Amphibs: Is there anything they can't do? The French and British are now deploying attack helicopters from their respective amphibious warships. In a broad strategic sense, this reinforces my belief that the amphib is the ship...
My WPR column this week is an extension of this post from last week: What has been absent thus far, however, has been the strategic use of airpower: airstrikes designed.
Rebel progress in Libya: In the besieged western city of Misurata hundreds of rebels broke through one of the front lines late on Sunday, and by Monday afternoon were consolidating.
In text form. In cartoon form.
Still not a war though. Interesting thoughts from former Pentagon analyst on the politics of drone warfare.
My column this week is on early lessons from Libya: The bombing of Libya was supposed to teach the region's autocrats that the international community would not stand by and.