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SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 21 July 2009

Hot Topics AR:  Britains warnings for travelers who want to visit Argentina: 07/16/09 BR:  RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Controversy Surrounds Army Search for Guerrilla Remains 07/17/09 CL:  Mapuche: No Effective Autonomy Without Political Will 07/17/09 CO:  Colombia: rebels funded Ecuador leaders election 07/17/09 CO:  Latin America: Washington, Bogota on Verge of Deal to Make …07/17/09 CO:  New Anti-Ecuador …

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AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 20 July 2009

Hot Topics BW: Nationality for sale 07/18/09 CG: Congo-Kinshasa: An Action Plan to End the Worlds Deadliest War 07/16/09 ER: The Existential Threat to the Nation 07/19/09 KE: War is Boring: Kenya Allegedly Funneling Arms to Volatile South Sudan 07/15/09 LR: Charles Taylor: Preacher, Warlord, President 07/17/09 NG: Jihadis Identify US Plots against China in …

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PACOM Week in Review Ending 19 July 2009

Hot Topics CN:  China rising in Latin America, but wont overtake United States 07/19/09 CN:  Chinas police-state crackdown in Xinjiang creates international …07/16/09 ID:  The Al Qaeda Paradox 07/17/09 ID: Jakarta Hotel Bombs, The Military & The CIA 07/17/09 IN:  Scientists save India’s moon mission from failure 07/17/09 NZ:  NZ needs to play its part …

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The Contested Commons

Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings July 2009 Vol. 135/7/1,277 Two officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense look at a changing and challenging world and what it means for the future of American power. The world is undergoing a profound and lasting shift in the relative balance of power …

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