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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Easing Back in to Eastern Ukraine

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After a poor start and a delay because of a Geneva detour that isn't working, Ukraine is beginning to push out pro-Russian militias that...

There Seems to Be Something Wrong With Our Bloody Bureaucracy Today

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India's submarine fleet has been plagued by a poor procurement bureaucracy that contributed to the loss of two existing submarines and h...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

The Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma Continues

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Russia is warning that it will react if ethnic Russians are "attacked" by Ukrainians inside Ukraine even as Russia is upset that ...

Russia Has Displayed Zero Military Prowess Thus Far

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Is the Red Army back? Who knows? We haven't seen it fight. The claim that " Russia Displays a New Military Prowess in Ukraine’s E...

Release the Kraken!

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I'm glad that we've sent Vice President Biden to Ukraine to bolster their morale in the face of Russian threats. But make sure we ar...

Well, It's Something

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While we still have the problem of aggressive Chinese behavior, at least there is less chance that a war could be triggered when China doesn...

Defending Ukraine

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Britain's RUSI looks at the opposing forces who would fight for Ukraine . Ukraine has moved some troops. To defend Kiev from thrusts f...

Unscientific Socialism

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So in addition to making a morally repulsive claim that income inequality reduction was a bright spot of two world wars and a global depres...

Two Problems With the Kerry-Lavrov Deal

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Assad killed all but a small percentage of his victims with non-chemical weapons. As we ship out the arsenal of chemical weapons that Assad ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Plausible Deniability

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So we'll leave just enough troops in Afghanistan to supply a really good massacre if things go bad. Ignoring the lessons of the total ...

I'm a Denier, Too

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Science is not defended by casting out the unbelievers . But that is how the "consensus" on climate change is defended. One ...

Crouching Paper Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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China's leaders worry their modernized military could be crippled by unmodernized thinking, even as that military may be unable to direc...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Yeah, A Soil Pollution Plan Will Do the Trick

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Are we sure the Chinese rulers are reasonably enlightened green autocrats? Because this sounds kind of bad : Almost a fifth of China...

I Was, Perhaps, Unclear

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When I set up a baking station for Lamb, I was expecting a steady flow of baked goods. I should have expressed my expectations more clearly....

There is Another

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Strategypage has a good post on four empires from the past making trouble in the 21st century. They forgot one empire. This is pretty inte...

Guam Scaled Back

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Our planned redeployment of Marines from Okinawa to Guam will be changed to reduce the number of Marines stationed on Guam. Guam won't...

Obama's Hideaway

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President Obama continues to refuse to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline to bring Canadian oil to our refineries. This is just one...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Remembering NATO's Purpose

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Poland's defense minister reminds us of why NATO exists : “The idea until recently was that there were no more threats in Europe and ...

Easter Incident

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Russia claims that shadowy Ukrainian fascists attacked a pro-Russian road block near Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine. I'm guessing Russia...

Cause and Effect

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Foreign jihadi numbers in Syria are way up. CENTCOM commander, General Austin, said of the foreign jihadis in Syria : “You know, when I...