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2013/08/252013/08/25

Milt Bearden: HIST Nov/Dec 2001 Afghanistan Graveyard of Empires

使用谷歌翻译在下一列的顶部。 गूगल अगले स्तंभ के शीर्ष पर अनुवाद का प्रयोग करें. Google sonraki sütunun üstünde Çevir kullanın. Используйте Google Translate на вершине соседней колонке. گوگل اگلے کالم میں سب سے اوپر ترجمہ کا استعمال کریں. Foreign Affairs, November/December 2001 Afghanistan Graveyard of Empires Milton Bearden MILTON BEARDEN served as CIA station chief in Pakistan from …

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2013/08/192013/08/19

David Swanson: Leah Bolger on Waging Peace

Waging Peace By Leah Bolger, WarIsACrime.org Pauling Lecture, Oregon State University, Power Point Good evening. I want to thank the committee for inviting me to speak with you this evening—it is such a pleasure to be here. When I received the letter from Professor Clinton congratulating me on being nominated as the 30th person to …

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2013/08/19

Del Spurlock: Open Civics — Crafting Responses to Terror II

Crafting Responses to Terror II Current events are an essential tool for learning civics. So today we are going to stay on track with our objectives for a national service with three events of the last few days. The first event was President Obama’s speech to the Convention of the Disabled American Veterans. You can …

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2013/08/152013/08/15

Berto Jongman: Forbes Pimps Palantir

How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut This story appears in the September 2, 2013 issue of Forbes. EXTRACT Palantir lives the realities of its customers: the NSA, the FBI and the CIA–an early investor through its In-Q-Tel venture fund–along with an alphabet soup of other U.S. counterterrorism and military agencies. In …

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2013/08/09

Marcus Aurelius: Ode to the Chopper Pilots

For those who have not seen. Most of us have significant experience with the Huey. In my case, my takeoffs exceed by a considerable number my landings in the airframe. Some of us know Ranger Nightengale personally. Some of us have been involved in emergency landings or other aircraft mishaps. Some of us owe …

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2013/08/082013/08/08

Winslow Wheeler: Purge the Generals to Fix the Army + Flag Corruption and Ineptitude RECAP

There is a devastating review of the quality of Army leadership at the new issue of Armed Forces Journal. At Armed Forces Journal, it is an article by Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (“Purge the Generals”), and it merits the attention of anyone following military affairs, I believe. If you think Army leadership is an island of …

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2013/08/072013/08/07

NIGHTWATCH: Afghanistan to Kashmir

Afghanistan: Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, published his annual Id al-Fitr address, which commemorates the end of Ramadan. The address contained several familiar themes. Most important for NATO forces is that Omar urged the Taliban to continue to attack foreign forces in the name of all Afghans. He said he would support only a …

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