The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hot Topics AA: Arab experts predict Mideast water wars 11/13/09 AA: Americans and Western Europeans Agree on Afghanistan-Pakistan Extremist Threat 11/11/09 AA: Muslims must quit British Forces, says Iranian envoy Abdolhossein Moezi 11/14/09 AA: Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are not best countries for … 11/13/09 AA: Terror training camps smaller, harder to target 11/09/09 …
Hot Topics AA: Al-Bashir cancels Turkey trip as OIC summit opens 11/09/09 AA: Russians Claim Georgia Plans to Buy Sophisticated Weapons from the US 11/11/09 AZ: Azerbaijani President discharges country’s military commissioner 11/10/09 BA: 14 Years After the Bosnian War, Victims of Rape and Sexual Violence Are Still … 11/09/09 CZ: Czech NATO troops spark …
Kilcullen: Send either lots of troops or none at all November 12th, 2009 Some quick notes from Georgetown, where David Kilcullen has just addressed students and faculty at the Center for Peace and Security Studies. Highlights below: The oft-touted 1:50 (or 20:1,000) ratio is “flawed.” It was based on post-war reconstruction studies done by the …
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For over many years now Phi Beta Iota has been emphasizing both the inappropriate secrecy and obscurity contrived for our dead and wounded, and the almost total black-out on both amputees (many of them multiple amputees) and suicides. We now know that Gulf I brought back over 250,000 disabled veterans, and that the toxic brew …
November 9, 2009 Afghan Mythologies by Victor Davis Hanson As President Obama decides whether to send more troops to Afsghanistan, we should remember that most of the conventional pessimism about Afghanistan is only half-truth. Remember the mantra that the region is the “graveyard of empires,” where Alexander the Great, the British in the 19th century, …
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Hot Topics AA: Assassinations, Peace and State Violence in India and Pakistan 11/04/09 AA: Sri Lanka’s top general leaves U.S. unquestioned 11/04/09 BD: Is Bangladesh heading towards civil war? 11/07/09 CN: All forces’ cooperation key to beating terror, says air chief 11/09/09 CN: Chinese premier: Africa trade push is ‘selfless’ 11/07/09 CN: Defying China, Dalai …
Newsweek November 16, 2009 Cover Story The Surprising Lessons Of Vietnam Unraveling the mysteries of Vietnam may prevent us from repeating its mistakes By Evan Thomas and John Barry Stanley Karnow is the author of Vietnam: A History, generally regarded as the standard popular account of the Vietnam War. This past summer, Karnow, 84, picked up …
