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IRAQ
PM Offers Cash for Weapons in Mosul - Suzanne Presto, VOA
Mosul Insurgents Offered Cash for Arms - Ernesto Londoño, Washington Post
Sunni Insurgents in Mosul Offered Amnesty, Cash - Andrew Kramer, New York Times
Iraq Offers Amnesty to Militants in Mosul - Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times
Plea to Free ‘Forgotten’ British Hostages - O’Neill and Haynes, London Times
Carey Makes New Iraq Hostage Plea - BBC News
Iran Protests after 3 Diplomats Wounded in Iraq - Associated Press
The War Over The War - Victor Davis Hanson, Washington Times opinion
A New Tone From Iran? - Dr. iRack, Abu Muqawama
Operation Lion's Roar Nets More than 1,000 - Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal
Ah, Ahmed - Dr. iRack, Abu Muqawama
Iraq Status Report - Iraq Status Report
AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN TRIBAL AREAS
US Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan - Schmitt and Golden, New York Times
Pakistan's Ambassador to Afghanistan Freed - Associated Press
Kidnapped Pakistan Envoy Released by Taliban - Reuters
Young Boy Linked to Suicide Hit - Toronto Star
10 Militants, 4 Afghans Killed - Associated Press
IRAN
Major Powers Finish Nuclear Incentives Offer - David Gollust, VOA
Iran's Bomb: The Clock is Ticking - Gordon Barthos, Toronto Star opinion
THE LONG WAR
US Not at War with Islam Faith, Bush Says - Jon Ward, Washington Times
Osama bin Laden Targets Israel - David Blair, London Daily Telegraph
Bin Laden says Palestinian Cause at Heart of Jihad - Associated Press
Insurgent Propaganda, Western Response - Andrew Exum, Arab Media and Society
Bounties a Bust in Hunt for Al-Qaeda - Craig Whitlock, Washington Post
US Postpones First Guantanamo War Crimes Trial - Associated Press
Coddling Terrorists In Yemen - Ali Soufan, Washington Post opinion
Be-bop Galula - Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club
UK Muslims: Identity, Integration, Policy - Tim Stevens, Complex Terrain Laboratory
Bin Laden Has New Tape Out And He... Zzzzzzz - James Meek, Counterterrorism
US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Gates Calls for Faster Application of Warfighting Assets - AFPS
Gates Extols Public Service to VMI Graduates - AFPS
Air Force Hosts Anti-IED Conference in Southwest Asia - AFPS
Inside the Ring - Bill Gertz, Washington Times
UK MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Defence Chiefs Have Doubts About £4bn Carriers - Michael Evans, London Times
AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE
Budget Going Great Guns, Thanks to China - Patrick Walters, The Australian
CANADA DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE
Unveil Canada's Defence Strategy - Toronto Star editorial
US DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Gates on Diplomats, Again... - Galrahn, Information Dissemination
US FOREIGN DIPLOMACY
Obama Strikes Back at Bush On Diplomacy - Matthew Mosk, Washington Post
Obama Accuses McCain of 'Fear Peddling' - Christina Bellantoni, Washington Times
Negotiating Isn't Appeasement - J. Peter Scoblic, Los Angeles Times opinion
Obama’s Role Model? - Max Boot, Contentions
McCain Wins One - Jennifer Rubin, Contentions
Same Message On Iran in America - Galrahn, Information Dissemination
What Would He Talk To Them About? - Jennifer Rubin, Contentions
US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FBI Gets Mixed Review in Interrogation Report - Eric Lichtblau, New York Times
End FBI-ATF Rift, Senators Urge - Jerry Markon, Washington Post
US INTERAGENCY
Gates Lauds Moves to Bolster Civilian Agencies - AFPS
Of Budgets and Priorities and the War of Ideas - Matt Armstrong, MountainRunner
US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
The Impartial Intelligence Analyst - Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club
AFRICA
Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa - Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times
Zimbabwe Election Runoff Set for June 27 - Bearak and Dugger, New York Times
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Ready for Mugabe - Raath and Sharrock, London Times
Tsvangirai Delays Zimbabwe Return - BBC News
Gruesome Killings by Mugabe Supporters Detailed - Washington Post
Zimbabwe Attacks 'Out of Control' - BBC News
Islamist Fighters Seize Town in Somalia - Associated Press
AMERICAS
Cartel Drug Carnage Tears Mexico Apart - Anthony Loyd, London Times
Suspected Drug Hit Men Dump Head in Mexican City - Reuters
With Chávez in Check, Talks in Peru Stay Calm - Simon Romero, New York Times
Rival Demands Chavez Clarify Rebel Links - Associated Press
Latin-America-Europe Summit Begins Under Feud - Associated Press
Dominican President Wins a Third Term - Marc Lacey, New York Times
US to Ship More Food to Struggling Haiti - Associated Press
ASIA PACIFIC
Rescue Can Bring Quake Victims New Danger - David Brown, Washington Post
China: Mass Graves for Dead, 5m Homeless - Macartney and Yu, London Times
China Aftershock Triggers Landslides - Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
China's Old Ways Shaken by Quake - Demick and Magnier, Los Angeles Times
Crises Cloud China's Olympic Mood - Edward Cody, Washington Post
Earthquake in China: the Aftershocks - London Times editorial
Opening China - Peter Herford, Washington Post opinion
Burma Cyclone Toll Reaches 78,000 - Farley and Richter, Los Angeles Times
US Frustrated by Burma Junta’s Aid Limits - Cooper and Shanker, New York Times
Neighbors to Press Burma on Response - Glenn Kessler, Washington Post
Looming Dangers for Orphaned Burmese - Seth Mydans, New York Times
New Depths of Repression Under Burma's Than Shwe - Olivia Ward, Toronto Star
Burma 'Guilty of Inhuman Action' - BBC News
US Ships in Frustrating Wait Off Burma's Coast - Luis Ramirez, VOA
US Resumes Food Aid to North Korea - Nicholas Kralev, Washington Times
US to Send N. Korea 500,000 Tons of Food Aid - Glenn Kessler, Washington Post
NK: US Must Fulfill Diplomatic Commitment - John Lewis, Boston Globe opinion
Philippine Air Force to Buy 18 Italian Trainer Planes - AFP
PNG Leaders Paid Off by Taiwan - Rowan Callick, The Australian
E. Timor: Raised on Nation's Fight for Freedom - Sian Powell, The Australian
Malaysia Evolution Going by Unnoticed - Greg Sheridan, The Australian opinion
EUROPE
Siberia: Shopping Malls Sprouting All Over - Andrew Kramer, New York Times
Turkey's Courts Should Respect People's Will - Mark Parris, Wall Street Journal opinion
MIDDLE EAST
Saudis Rebuff Bush on Pumping More Oil - Stolberg and Mouawad, New York Times
Oil Efforts Are Best Possible, Saudis Say - Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post
Saudis Increase Oil Production - Patrice Hill, Washington Times
Beseeching the Saudis - Wall Street Journal editorial
Appeasing an Arab Autocrat - Gordon Chang, Contentions
Bush to Head for Egypt Talks with Palestinians - Reuters
Arab League Claims Lebanese Peace Deal - Martin Chulov, The Australian
Lebanese Leaders Aim to End Political Crisis - Associated Press
Lebanon: Rebels Call the Shots - Martin Chulov, The Australian
Kuwait Votes for a New Parliament - Associated Press
Be-bop Galula - Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club
The Silent City - Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club
SOUTH ASIA
Motorbike Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in Sri Lanka - Reuters
Sri Lanka Military Bombs Rebel Air Strip - Associated Press
Polling Bangladesh - Wall Street Journal editorial
UNITED NATIONS
UN Sees Chance for Global Ban on Cluster Bombs - Reuters
RECOMMENDED READING
Global Guerillas, Meet the Resilient Communitarians! - Mark Safranski, ZenPundit
Five Thoughts on Friday - Galrahn, Information Dissemination
Book Bibliography of "Great Powers" - Tom Barnett, Thomas PM Barnett
Links I Liked - Chris Blattman, Chris Blattman
Iraq Status Report - Iraq Status Report
UK CT & COIN Features - Will Hartley, Insurgency Research Group
EVENTS OF INTEREST
4-5 June 208 - 2008 Joint Symposium - Strategic Re-Assessment: From Long-Range Planning to Future Strategy and Forces (Public Event). Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and US Joint Forces Command. Fundamental to the development and implementation of a successful future defense posture is a foundation comprised of a well-reasoned assessment of the future security environment, a clear understanding of the “realm of the possible” for and limitations of military forces, and an understanding of the nation’s security objectives. Developing an appropriate assessment of the future security environment is not something done in a vacuum as it is impossible to fully separate purely military or national security issues from other elements of the national and global environment. This is particularly true for the United States. Technical innovation and adaptation, the rise and decline of other actors on the international stage, domestic politics, globalization and its effects on trade, migration, communications, and the power of nonstate actors all, bear heavily on any security assessment. There is no shortage of assessments of the future security environment. In the last decade, National Defense University itself has produced several, most recently, Strategic Challenges – America’s Global Security Agenda. The objectives of this symposium are to examine some of these strategic assessments, to review our success at incorporating their key elements into strategic and operational plans, and to propose ways to institutionalize best practices into the process for future force development and joint force planning. We will explore these issues through a series of panel discussions and keynote addresses. Featured speakers will include military officers, government officials, and experts from research institutes.
17-19 June 208 - 3rd Annual North American Security Colloquium: Wars Without Borders (Public Event). Kingston, Ontario. Sponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, Queen's Centre for International Relations, and Defence Management Studies at Queen's University, and the Canadian 'Forces' Land Doctrine and Training System. The conflicts today in Iraq and in Afghanistan are examples of what some leading scholars and many commanders have termed “continuous wars among the people.” This type of conflict is developing or occurring in other regions of the world, in Africa and in Latin America for example. In many of these situations traditional and legal borders no longer define or contain the conflict, nor do obvious sovereign entities control belligerents. International commitments to control these conflicts necessarily demand complex, multi-dimensional diplomatic, military, police, and humanitarian responses. What has been learned about such conflicts from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan may to some degree be transferable to conflicts in other regions. Assuming that the international community may well face future operations characterized by regional, borderless “wars among the people”, the centres at Queen’s University and their partners propose convening a distinguished group of approximately 200 experts from academic, military, governmental, and international institutions to examine how best to prepare commanders, military units and governments to plan for and conduct complex, multi-dimensional stability campaigns in this new environment.
16-18 September 2008 - The U.S. Army and the Interagency Process: A Historical Perspective (Public Event - Conference / Call for Papers). Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Sponsored by the U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute. The symposium will include a variety of guest speakers, panel sessions, and general discussions. This symposium will explore the partnership between the U.S. Army and government agencies in attaining national goals and objectives in peace and war within a historical context. Separate international topics may be presented. The symposium will also examine current issues, dilemmas, problems, trends, and practices associated with U.S. Army operations requiring close interagency cooperation.