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IRAQ
Iran And Syria to Attend Iraq Meeting In Sweden - Reuters
Iraq Troops Relax in Cleric Sadr's Former Bastion - Reuters
Basra Shooting Strains Truce Between Govt, Militia - Associated Press
Iraq Bomb Injures 6 Marines - Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times
Why US Must Pull Out of Iraq - Sean Duggan, Boston Globe opinion
War Blindness - Linda Chavez, New York Post opinion
Change That Matters - Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard opinion
USIP Dialogue on Media and Conflict - United States Institute of Peace
Controversial Contractor’s Iraq Work Is Split Up - James Risen, New York Times
Artillery FIre and Ice Cream Cones - Charlie, Abu Muqawama
Persuasion by Artillery Fire - Noah Shachtman, Danger Room
'... Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone' - Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent
Iraq Status Report - Iraq Status Report
AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN TRIBAL AREAS
Marine Corps Unit Cleared in Afghan Shootout - David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
No Marines Charged in Afghan Deaths - Associated Press
Suicide Bomb Kills Afghan Troops - BBC News
Roadside Bombs Kill 3 in Pakistan - Associated Press
IRAN
Wife of ex-FBI Agent Missing in Iran Offers Reward - Associated Press
THE LONG WAR
Key Al Qaeda Figure Died in US Strike - Meyer and Rotella, Los Angeles Times
Pentagon Charges Detainee with Terrorism Support - Reuters
How to Have Successful Negotiations - Dennis Ross, Wall Street Journal opinion
Retrospective - Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club
Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave - Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books
US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
2 Inquiries Set on Pentagon Publicity Effort - David Barstow, New York Times
China, Russia Condemn US Missile Defense Plans - Associated Press
Any More Grants and Shermans? - Victor Davis Hanson, Washington Times opinion
New MilBlogs... - Greyhawk, Mudville Gazette
UK MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
British to Ban Cluster Bombs - Michael Evans, The Australian
MEMORIAL DAY 2008
Fallen But Never Forgotten - Blackfive, Blackfive
Reflections by Frontier 6 - Frontier 6, CAC Blog
Reflections by Frontier 6 - Jack, DoD Live
Memorial Day 2008 - CJ, A Solider's Perspective
Mullen Cites Importance of Remembrance in Memorial Day Message - AFPS
To Live with Honor - Joseph Morrison, National Review
Memorial Day 2008 - Austin Bay, Washington Times
Forgotten Heroes - Ed Sherwood, Washington Times
Mystic Chords of Memory - Mackubin Thomas Owens, National Review
A Weekend to Remember Them - Joseph Rehyansky, Human Events
Returning Meaning to Memorial Day - Bret Schulte, US News & World Report
Burial at Arlington - Douglas Stone, Human Events
Let Us Remember Them - Colbert King, Washington Post
Protesting the Antiwar Protestors - Kevin Ferris, Wall Street Journal
AFRICA
Bandits Displace Up to 100,000 in Central Africa - Reuters
Militia in Sudan Robs Peacekeepers - Lydia Polgreen, New York Times
UN Peacekeepers Ambushed in Darfur - Associated Press
Horseback Raid on Darfur Troops - BBC News
Armed Men Ambush, Disarm, Peacekeepers in Darfur - Reuters
Sudan's Macabre Display Of Victory - Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post
Zimbabwe is on a Political Precipice - Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times
Opposition Leader Heads Back to Zimbabwe - Associated Press
Flawed but Enduring Zimbabwe Leader Returning - Celia Dugger, New York Times
Peacekeepers Sell Arms to Somalis - BBC News
Immigrants Flee Hate Killings in S. Africa - Jonathan Clayton, London Times
S. Africa: ANC Call to 'Retake the Streets' - BBC News
South Africa Says Apartheid-era Foes Fan Violence - Reuters
Mozambique Fears ‘Exodus’ From Violence in South Africa - Associated Press
The Failures of Thabo Mbeki - New York Times editorial
100,000 Displaced Kenyans Return Home - Associated Press
AFRICOM: Forward and Back - Tom Barnett, Thomas PM Barnett
Details of the Sea Basing Off Monrovia - Galrahn, Information Dissemination
AMERICAS
South America Creates Regional Union - Associated Press
Rifts Threaten to Overshadow South American Union - Reuters
Mexico Homicides Jump 47 Percent - Associated Press
Mexican Drug Hitmen Dump Four Heads in Ice Chests - Reuters
Chavez Opponents Face Election Blacklist - Associated Press
Fidel Castro Attacks McCain and Bush in Column - Reuters
Ecuadoreans Reject Colombia Rebel Probe - Associated Press
ASIA PACIFIC
Burma to Allow Foreign Aid Workers - Amy Kazmin, Washington Post
Burma Yields on Aid Workers - Seth Mydans, New York Times
Burma 'To Let in All Aid Workers' - BBC News
Burma's Two Catastrophes - Boston Globe editorial
Burma's Murderous Dictators - Bernard-Henri Levy, The Australian opinion
Quake that Changed a Nation - Rowan Callick, The Australian
Chinese Officials Shift Focus to Relief Efforts - Nora Boustany, Washington Post
Response to Quake Prompts Burst of Acclaim - Edward Cody, Washington Post
China Orders Richer Cities to Help Quake-ravaged - Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
Earthquake Mutes Protests of Beijing Olympics - Associated Press
N. Korea: In the Driver's Seat - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard opinion
EUROPE
Russia and Ukraine Lock Horns Over Naval Base - Michael Schwirtz, New York Tines
Medvedev Defends Russia-China Ties - Associated Press
Georgia’s Ruling Party Victory Is Confirmed - C.J. Chivers, New York Times
Georgian Opposition Vows to Boycott Parliament - Reuters
Georgia Opposition Vows Boycott - BBC News
Serbia Withdraws Ambassador from Czech Republic - Associated Press
Clashes in Turkey's Southeast Kills 4 - Associated Press
MIDDLE EAST
Beirut Steps Back from the Brink, Again - Nicholas Blanford, London Times
Hezbollah Image in Arab World Less Shiny - Raed Rafei, Los Angeles Times
In Sign of Change, Israeli, Palestinian Officers Meet - Associated Press
Israeli Attacks Kill 5 Palestinian Militants in Gaza - Los Angeles Times
Israeli Police Question Olmert Again - Isabel Kirshner, New York Times
SOUTH ASIA
Pakistan Party Moves to Cut Musharraf Powers - Associated Press
Sri Lanka: 22 Rebels, 2 Soldiers Killed - Associated Press
Sri Lanka Rebels say Army Bomb Kills 17 Civilians - Reuters
Food Costs Push Bangladesh to Brink of Unrest - Emily Wax, Washington Post
UNITED NATIONS
Saudi Aid Bails Out U.N. Food Agency - David Sands, Washington Times
Saudis Donate $500M to Help UN Food Agency - Associated Press
Might the Europeans want ElBaradei Out at the IAEA? - Westhawk, Westhawk
RECOMMENDED READING
UK CT & COIN Features - Will Hartley, Insurgency Research Group
EVENTS OF INTEREST
29 May 2008 - Occupational Hazards: Success and Failure in Military Occupation (Public Event). Washington, D.C. Book forum hosted by The Cato Institute. Featuring the author David M. Edelstein, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, with comments by Robert M. Perito, U.S. Institute of Peace and Christopher Preble, Cato Institute. What makes military occupations more or less likely to succeed? Drawing on 26 cases since 1815 where outside powers have seized territory without a claim to its sovereignty, David Edelstein attempts to determine why some occupations succeed and why so many seem doomed to failure. Edelstein combines detailed case studies with a theoretical approach and concludes that occupations face a paradox: Success requires a long-term and massive commitment of resources and attention; however, such large-scale occupations can elicit nationalist responses from the occupied populace. Further, as the occupier faces difficulty, discontent grows at home, and pressure builds to remove occupying forces. Examining the history of occupation as a component of grand strategy, Edelstein offers warnings for today’s policymakers, who seem tempted to include military occupations as part of the approach to countering terrorism. Please join the author and our distinguished commentators for a discussion of this timely and pathbreaking book.
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.