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When the victor belongs to the spoils of war
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | 3 months ago
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Judgments rendered by history tend to be tentative, incomplete and reversible...This is especially true when it comes to war, where battlefield outcomes thought to be conclusive often prove anything but. Rather than yielding peace, victory frequently
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'National Insecurity,' by Melvin Goodman
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 4 months ago
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In "National Insecurity," former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman, who worked under every administration from Johnson to Bush Sr., takes a dogged look through our history since World War II for the answer. He finds it in militarization, his shorthand for
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The Petraeus Debacle
Baghdad :: Iraq | 6 months ago
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Whether Petraeus' testimony to a Congressional intelligence committee was influenced by the fact that his indiscretion was known to persons high in the Obama administration?...It turns out, as well, that much of the book was ghost-written by Vernon
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OMNIVORE: America, the Insecure
Jefferson :: VA :: USA | 8 months ago
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From Solidarity, Dianne Feeley on how the formality of democracy may be held sacred in the USA , but the substance is crumbling. David Rothkopf on how to solve all of America's problems in a single step...George Scialabba reviews The Short American
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Andrew J. Bacevich: How We Became Israel
Date :: Japan | 9 months ago
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Bacevich is a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame. Peace means different things to different governments and different countries. To some it suggests harmony based on tolerance and mutual respect. To others it serves as a euphemism for
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The fall of the COINdinistas
Coín :: Spain | 9 months ago
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News Sources on September 3, 2012 Kelley Beaucar Vlahos writes : Lt...David Petraeus, Washington's newest demigod, had convinced everyone that his Surge Strategy could tame the wild disaster that had become the Iraq War. Nagl, who had positioned
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Andrew Bacevich: The golden age of special operations
Tampa :: FL :: USA | 12 months ago
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These days, from Somalia to the Philippines , presidential global interventions are increasingly a dime a dozen; and they are normally spearheaded by those special ops troops backed by CIA or Air Force drones...An ever expanding secret military
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Soldier-scholar to discuss foreign entanglements
Baghdad :: Iraq | 1 year ago
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The American people and their military thought Iraq and Afghanistan would be quick wars easy and cheap then troops would come home. That didn't happen, and it taught us a lesson, says author Andrew Bacevich, an international relations professor and
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Assassination Is the New Shock and Awe
Kabul :: Afghanistan | over 1 year ago
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Why the US's favorite new war strategy will only drag out the War on Terror...Without achieving victory, yet unwilling to acknowledge failure, the United States military has withdrawn from Iraq. It is trying to leave Afghanistan, where events seem
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Andrew J. Bacevich: The American Century Is Over— Good Riddance
Date :: Japan | over 1 year ago
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Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. He is editor of The Short American Century: A Postmortem, just published by Harvard University Press. As someone who teaches both history and international relations,
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