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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Alert President Obama

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Our president expresses concerns over playing by the rules. Let's see how one party played by the rules and one party worked around th...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Recruiting and Retention

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Assad has real problems now: Desertion in the army has reached crises proportions, with several thousand fleeing each day. So far, about...

Just What Is the Libya Model?

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The idea that we might apply the Libya model to Syrian unrest is perhaps misplaced--or at least requires something so far lacking--a geograp...

Playing the Suicide Bomber Card

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Well, I think we can safely say the Syria unrest has gone way beyond the initial demands for government reform: A Syrian military offici...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise?

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We will be surprised when Iran goes nuclear (tip to Instapundit): Washington lacks the kind of visibility inside the Iranian regime requi...

Scalable Ground Power

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Australia is reorganizing their active and reserve ground forces , which currently rest on an active mechanized brigade, infantry brigade, a...

What's Up With This?

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I assume we can track down who we originally sold these Patriot missiles to: Finnish authorities on Wednesday impounded 160 tons of expl...

The Invasion That Wasn't

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Not that the Pakistanis will believe this, but errors--largely Pakistani (and this doesn't even require us to look at the big picture e...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

An Omnibus for the Rest of Us

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The One requires proselytizing to ensure Heaven on Earth. Next week's presidential instruction for the holiday? Feats of strength! ...

Science Changes

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Huh. I thought Mercury was tidally locked with the sun. Apparently not : Scientists had long assumed that Mercury was tidally locked with...

The Korean Succession Crisis

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Could Kim Il-Sung's death and attempted hand off of power to the Zygote Kim Jong-Un lead to armed clashes between America and China? C...

Does Iran Have Our Drone?

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On Strategytalk (the December 18, 2011 show), the notion that Iran might not have our drone was raised. Mostly because the Strategypage peo...

In Case He's Just Vewy, Vewy Quiet

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From our State Department, naturally, comes this assessment of Kim Jong-Il (tip to Weekly Standard): Wendy Sherman, now the No. 3 offici...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Lightning Strikes

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Japan has chosen the F-35 over the F-18 and Eurofighter Typhoon: Japan selected the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter on Tuesday to r...

True, Interesting, and Irrelevant

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So are the Palestinians an invented people? Palestinians are enraged because an American politician recently pointed out that "Pales...

Is Hashemi Guilty?

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A crisis continues in Iraq : Iraqi authorities issued an arrest warrant for Sunni Muslim Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi on Monday for su...

Dollars and No Sense

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I find this article amazing in its strategic and historical illiteracy. We won the Iraq War. If we defend what we won and exploit it, we ca...

No Change

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I haven't paid much attention to the flap over detention authority in the most recent NDAA (national defense authorization act). It seem...

Symptom

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I have to wonder if the Wukan unrest is just the most obvious symptom of economic problems that the Chinese rulers don't even know they...

Consolidate Federal Departments

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Instapundit links a post that notes the expansive goals of two supposedly narrowly focused federal departments and asks : Will EPA and th...