The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
1. Ricks fails to understand that military strategy and policy do not exist in a vacuum. The White House and Congress both have votes that can be decisive. Shinseki and Franks were closer to right w/r/t force requirements for Iraq than was Rumsfeld. Further, Jerry Bremer unbelievably complicated Iraq by de-Baathification and dissolutionn of the …
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India-Pakistan: Relations are trending downward and tension is up because of a surge in attacks from Pakistan in the past two months along the Line of Control and across the International Border of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. This week two attacks occurred: on the night of 22 October and the night of 24 October. …
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Western universities still dominate the upper reaches of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. But a power shift is underway and the east is beginning to rise through the ranks. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings powered by Thomson Reuters judges research-led universities on teaching, research, citations (research influence), industry income and international …
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A new power triangle The relative decline of America’s military, economy and soft power has led to new possibilities for restructuring leadership. Russia, India and China have been grasping at these new horizons. The Asian Age, 22 October 2013 Two back-to-back diplomatic summits this week between India and Russia, followed by India and China, are …
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Daring to Hope: Afghanistan 21 Fellows Take Aim at Myriad Issues Facing Their Country Tom Nagorski The Asia Society, October 17th, 2013 There may be no nation on earth where 2014 looms with as much excitement and trepidation as it does in Afghanistan. This country, torn by strife and poverty for so long, will see …
FUSION: A BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO COUNTERINSURGENCY Article by: Rob Sentse and Jeroen Jansen Major BC. Rob SENTSE is attached to the 13 Mechanized Brigade RNLA as a Staff officer Information Operations. In 2006 he worked at the Canadian led RC-S HQ as J2PLANS also responsible for the Fusion Cell and in 2008 he worked as …
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Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire Protecting the Victims of the Privatization of War Over the years we have seen numerous cases of various abuses and outright crimes by private military and security contractors (PMSC). True, they don’t happen every day, and don’t reflect the actions of the vast majority of the contractors working overseas but …
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