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Oh, so THAT'S the difference between the military and the academy
Mark Bowden has a long profile of CENTCOM commander David Petraeus in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. There's a lot of interesting material in there, and I'm sure Tom Ricks will have many...
View ArticleWhat I learned at the National Security Forum
I spent the last two days in the great state of Alabama, giving a talk on the financial crisis and national security at the Air War College's National Security Forum. The audience consists of Air...
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24 hours later.... thoughts on McChrystal
Hmmm.... which magazine should I peruse online this AM.... maybe TNR? The National Interest? Nah, I'm not in the mood for deep thinking. I'll just look at Rolling Stone, that won't take much...
View ArticleMy one post on repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cIt Gets Worse PSAhttp://www.thedailyshow.com/Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorThe Daily Show on Facebook One of my guilty pleasures is Ana...
View ArticleHoisted from the archives: it's not the Cold War
OK, apparently the Wall Street Journal now has a policy to publish an op-ed every quarter asserting that: 1) U.S. defense spending is woefully inadequate compared to the Cold War era; 2) Those...
View ArticleThe durability of stalemates
Steve Coll breaks some news about Afghanistan at The New Yorker. He reports that the Obama administration is now "entered into direct, secret talks with senior Afghan Taliban leaders." Readers...
View ArticleWill NATO go for half a loaf in Libya?
Kim Sengupta and Solomon Hughes have one of those exclusives in The Independent that's an equal mixture of intriguing and dubious on the current situation in Libya. Here's the lead: The Libyan...
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Neoconservatives don't scare me
Max Boot is trying to scare the crap out of me and not succeeding: Be afraid. Be very afraid. If, like me, you care about the future of American power–if, like me, you believe the United States has...
View ArticleWinners and losers from Libya … this week
As I type this, most of Tripoli is now in the hands of Transitional National Council forces and supporters, two of Muammar Khaddafi's sons are in custody, and the backbone of Khaddafi's military has...
View ArticleWhy Libya is not a template for future military statecraft
Fareed Zakaria thinks that the Libya intervention signals "a new era in U.S. foreign policy": The United States decided that it was only going to intervene in Libya if it could establish several...
View ArticleAnalogical reasoning strikes again
I know that Daniel Klaidman's Newsweek cover story on the Navy SEALs is supposed to make me feel all warm and safe because of the uber-competence of SEAL Team Six and President Obama's comfort with...
View ArticleWhen television goes MAD
This television season has been a mixed blessing for those of us who like to study how humans behave under anarchy. On the one hand, in addition to Season Three of The Walking Dead about to start,...
View ArticleScandal, trust and the military
Look, let's be blunt -- as a responsible foreign policy blogger, I should be trying to divert your attention away from the tawdriness that is the David Petraeus scandal. There's no shortage of other...
View ArticleA word about the alleged economic benefits of the American military
This week, there's been a rash of articles on the state of GOP foreign policy thinking, as well as some interesting and constructiveresponses to my Foreign Affairs essay on the same subject. I will...
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