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Friday, January 20, 2006

Death of Westphalia

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The Treaty of Westphalia established the dominance of today's nation-states: It is often said that the Peace of Westphalia initiated mod...

Democracy Begins

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The Iraqi December election results are in: The Shiite United Iraqi Alliance captured 128 of the 275 seats in the Dec. 15 election, down fro...

Unclear on the Concept

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As I've read over the years in the debate over Iran, some opponents of doing anything but trying to bribe the mullahs of Iran into givin...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Is This Real Enough?

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Does the so-called "reality-based community" see Iran as a dire threat today? I only ask because so many opponents of the Iraq War...

Orifice of Delphi

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So what is Osama telling us? Having fallen into bin Laden's diabolically clever plot to provoke us into wiping his face all over Southwe...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Right Click to Destroy

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When the dominant form of warfare matches your society's general knowledge base, you will have an advantage in warfare over enemies with...

Makes You Miss the Shah

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Remember when the Shah of Iran was really bad? The psychopaths who run Iran now make him look like Santa Claus by comparison. Can't we g...

Keep Him Talking

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The Iranians are upset that America and France (!) have agreed that it is pointless to talk to Iran when Iran clearly doesn't want to ne...

This Government Has 22 Minutes

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Via The Corner, this story on scary Liberal Party ads warning against the nefarious plots of the Conservative Party: Earlier in the campaign...
Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Oh, They Have an Iran Strategy

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The headline to this article states: "Moscow Not Ready to Back Iran Strategy" Moscow is not ready to back sanctions against Iran f...

Surrender Now!

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Ted Galen Carpenter has a new book coming out (via Mad Minerva ) that will tell us how to avert a war with China over Taiwan. If his past ...

Siege

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I wrote earlier that I think any aerial campaign against Iran (with special forces, too, involved) would last weeks and would have to be muc...
Monday, January 16, 2006

The End of the Barrage

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For the longest time, fire support gave you a choice of fairly precise tube artillery that took some time to put metal on target and inaccur...

Speed Bump

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Via Real Clear Politics, the Iranians and Venezuelans are getting chummy : With Iranian nuclear aspirations gaining notice, it's worth d...
Sunday, January 15, 2006

Provocation

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Belmont Club notes that right now we don't lack the means to hammer Iran but the will to do so. If we put pressure on Iran but do not cr...

Unworthy

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As Iraqi political parties attempt to form a coalition government, don't let the poor hand the Sunnis have lead you to feel sorry for th...

Sucker Punch

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The CIA's strike in Pakistan failed to kill Zawahiri. And now Pakistanis are protesting : Pakistani intelligence officials said the repo...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

Surge Capability

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The Navy's new policy of not routinely keeping carrier battle groups forward deployed and instead preparing for a surge policy to get si...

Reserve Force

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The US announced that we would not deploy two brigades to Iraq , reducing our brigade strength to 15 in the next rotation early this year. I...

Geography Matters

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Every once in a while I will note some article that describes a Chinese weakness. Those who disregard China as a threat like to point these ...