THEORY AND NATURE OF WAR
Counterinsurgency and Constitutional Design - Harvard Law Review
IRAQ
US Warns Iran of Retaliation - Sarah Baxter, London Times
Kidnapped Britons ‘Held by Iran’ - Mahnaimi and Smith, London Times
Sunni VP Wants Return to Government - Sameer Yacoub, Associated Press
Bomb Tagets Sons of Iraq - Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times
Turkish Warplanes Raid PKK Targets - Emma Ross-Thomas, Reuters
Busy Signal - Oliver North, Washington Times opinion
How We'll Know When We've Won - Frederick Kagan, Weekly Standard opinion
New Kagan... Same Old Kagan - Dr. iRack, Abu Muqawama
War, What’s it Good For? Maliki Now Knows - Westhawk, Westhawk
Very Sensible Scales on Iraq - Tom Barnett, Thomas PM Barnett
McCain on Basra and Maliki - Abe Greenwald, Contentions
AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN TRIBAL AREAS
Karzai Is Safe After Fleeing Gunfire at Event - Associated Press
US Marines Deploying in South - Jason Straziuso, Associated Press
THE LONG WAR
Try 'Pakistan First' - Jim Hoagland, Washington Post opinion
Two Fronts, Same Worries - David Ignatius, Washington Post opinion
Particulars May Trump Geneva Protections - Joby Warrick, Washington Post
Letters Give CIA Tactics a Legal Rationale - Mark Mazzetti, New York Times
Brown’s U-turn on Terror - Shami Chakrabarti, London Times editorial
Dire Thoughts, No Action - Clifford May, Washington Times opinion
Complex and Fundamental Contradictions - Jay Fraser, Threats Watch
No More Jihadists - Max Boot, Contentions
Complications From the Jihad Lexicon - Jeffrey Breinholt, Counterterrorism
'G' Is For Ghabra, 'J' Is For Jihad - Steve Schippert, Threats Watch
US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
When it Comes Time to Kill - David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
Allegations Lead Army to Review Arms Policy - C.J. Chivers, New York Times
The Petraeus Promotion - Jeffrey Bell, Weekly Standard opinion
NATO
Stand Up For Georgia - Biden and Lugar, Washington Times opinion
Can NATO be Rehabilitated? - Herschel Smith, The Captain's Journal
AFRICA
Zimbabwe Officials Confirm Opposition Win - Angus Shaw, Associated Press
Mugabe Parliament Loss Confirmed - BBC News
Mugabe’s Link to Chinese Arms Firm - Michael Sheridan, London Times
Angola Pressures Zimbabwe on Arms - Celia Dugger, New York Times
Memoir Tells of Darfur Atrocities - Matthew Campbell, London Times
New Darfur Peacekeepers, Old Problems - Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
Darfur: Shake Hands with the Devil - Chris Blattman, Chris Blattman
Some Ex-rebels May Quit Algeria Amnesty Plan - Hamid Ould Ahmed, Reuters
Somali Pirates Free Crew of Spanish Boat - BBC News
Spanish Fishing Boat Released by Pirates - Galrahn, Information Dissemination
AMERICAS
Tijuana Drug Shootout Leaves 15 Dead - Dickerson and Marosi, Los Angeles Times
15 Killed in Mexico Drug Battle Near US - Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters
FARC Rebels Fire Mortars from Ecuador - Reuters
Chávez to Help Negotiate for FARC Captives - Simon Romero, New York Times
New Mexico Gov. in Venezuela - Rachel Jones, Associated Press
ASIA
N. Korea's Runway for War - Sheridan and Mahnaimiin, London Times
China Assails Dalai Lama - Jill Drew. Washington Post
200 Australian Troops to Quit East Timor - Associated Press
THE CAUCASUS
Chechen Rival on the Run - Mark Franchetti, London Times
MIDDLE EAST
Destroy Iran's Nukes - Alasdair Palmer, London Daily Telegraph opinion
Hamas Says Cease-fire is a 'Tactic' - Associated Press
Round Two On Hamas - Jennifer Rubin, Contentions
Palestinian Islamic “Internal Struggle” - Bill West, Counterterrorism
Lebanon Sets May 13 to Elect President - Reuters
SOUTH ASIA
Pakistan Impasse Over Reinstating Judges - Candace Rondeaux, Washington Post
Sri Lanka Arrests 9 Over Bus Bomb - Ranga Sirilal, Reuters
WORLD
Every President Talks to the Bad Guys - Leslie Gelb, Washington Post opinion
To Avoid a Food Disaster - Romano Prodi, Washington Times opinion
The State of State Failure - S.D.K. Ellis, Complex Terrain Laboratory
RECOMMENDED READING
UK CT & COIN Features - Will Hartley, Insurgency Research Group
Readings on Military Intelligence - Norfolk, The Norfolk Blog
Saturday Links - Michael Goldfarb, Weekly Standard Blog
