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Agree on the EU -- Stephen Krasner, political scientist at Stanford, argues that the EU is really its own species, neither nation-state nor confederation:

Would you describe Bill Lind and TX Hammes as uninformed observers?

Do you folks think there's a need for a layman's guide to global finance, written with an eye towards a security/defense audience? Could cover things like the potential impact of a shift in global...

Hi Folks,

We just posted some Q&A with John Negroponte over at Bellum:

http://bellum.stanfordreview.org/?p=1500

Two interesting aspects:
1. His comments on the durability of the...

http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/

They're posting about 5 mins per day of this interview with Gen. Jack Keane, talking about Iraq and Afghanistan.

May be of interest:

http://bellum.stanfordreview.org/?p=1188

Wonder why a .doc and not a .pdf

I think he's referring to the alarmism over China's navy.

You may be able to get in touch through this site:

http://www.dinfos.osd.mil/events/viap/index.asp

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Hi Folks,

SWJ's own Frank Hoffman joined Bellum for some Q&A, had this to say about the US Navy's role in the world's oceans:



http://bellum.stanfordreview.org/?p=1031

Love to hear...

Yes, there was a smattering of articles late last year about pomegranates:

From The Economist:



Voice of America:

Folks,

Some may be interested in Mark Bowden's thoughts on the American military in the 21st century, 10 years after publication of Black Hawk Down.

Full text here:
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Very rarely will my comments have an ulterior motive.:D Sometimes things I find interesting and worth mentioning will be common knowledge to others...

In fact, I think his research is probably spot on. If anything, bringing up his bipartisanship is a point in his favor and shows he's interested in applying his academic research to the real world --...

Notice how the Canadians couched the visit, at least in Reuters:



I'm not sure we've seen the Canadians explicitly draw the link between Russia's patrols and the new great game in the Arctic.

Remember reading about Feaver in the context of the Bush administration's focus on the word "victory" to describe the Iraq strategy. Wikipedia says he worked for both Clinton and Bush admins, but I'm...

Thanks, David -- want to push you a bit on conventional forces. Having armor helps in force protection -- airbases, barracks, and what not, no?

Folks,

Some may be interested in this Q&A with John Nagl I've just posted. The basic theme is whether counterinsurgency is even possible given:

a) media-driven society
b) counterinsurgencies...

Thanks for the thoughts, Ron. Will keep that perspective in mind.

Wouldn't the logistics problem get in the way of intervening in most of those places?

But:

1. I think the combination of Gates + the rise of COIN folks from CNAS (Nagl & Co.) + Obama's purported focus on Afghanistan suggest that we see some major shift in resources towards fighting...

It's a fairly interesting essay in and of itself, but thought his point -- that Gates et al are wrong to focus on Islamic radicalism (in context, read: insurgency) as the defining threat for the...

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/08winter/gray.pdf

Notice footnote 18:


Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates offers the contestable statement that "[f]or the foreseeable future,...

I've so far stayed out of most of the discussions, but I was listening to a conversation between a few conservative pundits about Obama's speech, so this thread piqued my curiosity.

Arguing about...

Folks here may be interested in his comments on the media; Somalia; Yemen; and of course Iraq-Afghan-Pakistan.

http://bellum.stanfordreview.org/?p=348