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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

See? This is the Problem

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"Breaching" a line of ground forces with air attacks is pointless if no friendly ground force exploits that breach in the line to ...

Trying to Put the Cart Before the Strong Horse

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ISIL raced through northern Iraq in June in what was essentially a small ISIL strike force taking advantage of a rising up of Sunni Arabs li...

Please Review Separation of Powers

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The idea that Republican control of the next Congress (due to winning the Senate and holding the House) means they must "prove they ca...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Keeping America In

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One of the problems with complaining about NATO as an effective partner for mobilizing Europeans for the defense of Europe is that NATO is ...

Once Again, Why It is the "Long" War.

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Strategypage has a good reminder of why we can't grow tired of fighting jihadis: Moslems get motivated to do something about Islamic...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Please, the Outline of the Deal is Obvious

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Ledeen comments on the speculation game over a potential nuclear agreement with Iran with the looming (what number is this one?) "deadl...

Actual Islamophobia

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To be fair, they are clinging to their god and guns : A flood of anti-Shiite propaganda online and on satellite television is spreading b...

Well That's Disturbing

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After the recent attempt to seize a Pakistani frigate , is attacking navy ship now the latest jihadi fad? This is disturbing : Brig. Ge...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

The Crimean-Plus War

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This article reviews a new book on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries as well as the crisis that began with the Crimea invasion. Let me...

Spoiling Attacks?

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As signs of Russian invasion proliferate, I keep hearing news of artillery fire in Donetsk--which is rebel held. But nothing says the Ukrain...

Way More Than Twenty

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This article writes about more than 20 countries that don't have militaries . That's interesting. But it is a simplistic exercise ...

Their's Is But to Do and Die?

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I know that people keep saying that the Alawites are too afraid of the jihadis to stop backing Assad, but some are already doing that. And s...

Lesson in Feminism

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It's wrong for a man to wear a shirt with bullet-bra'd cartoon women on it (tip to Instapundit). But if an actual woman wants to we...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Venezuela Tackles the Symptoms

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Venezuela's Maduro--the gray inept successor to the equally inept but somehow viewed as charismatic Hugo Chavez--is cracking down on the...

The Russians Really Are Coming

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The signs point to a Russian offensive in Donbas. Now that Russian propagandists are dismissing the notion, I think we can say the attack is...

Rewiring That "Reset" Button

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Russia says that they have a nuclear surprise for us. How reset-y. That's nice : The Russian Pravda has published an article titled...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Belarus Experiences the Clue Bat

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Belarus is apparently worried that Putin is ruining their economic opportunities Do tell, genius : Belarus wants to strengthen its econ...

Things Fall Apart

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Yemen could really make the headlines soon : Nearly three years after Yemen ousted a decades-old dictatorship and began a political trans...

No Plan Survives Contact With the Enemies

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Realizing we have many enemies in the "ISIL" campaign is a start. I've noted that our air campaign against ISIL is pretty sm...

Just Lie Back and Think of the Motherland

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Putin is counting on Chinese money to save him from paying too high a price for his Ukraine adventures. So this is interesting : Domesti...