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... We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... enemy would use torture at the slightest whim. If this is the case, then waterboarding is unquestionably being used as torture ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... 12th weekly contribution to Foreign Policy - This Week at War by Robert Haddick - is now posted. Topics include - Gates's ...

Blog entry - Apr 10 2009 - 5:30pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Here is the latest edition of my column at Foreign Policy : Topics include: 1) McChrystal report ... report unwittingly slays counterinsurgency doctrine This summer the U.S. government has faced a deteriorating crisis in ... that America is here for the duration." In this week's essay I have predicted that Obama will abandon a counterinsurgency ...

Blog entry - Sep 25 2009 - 4:59pm - 14 comments - 0 attachments

... Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario for resolution of the Afghan conflict in a ... been other times when I agreed with their judgment (last week there was an angry, personal attack against Bob Cassidy and they removed ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... Army Worries about 'Toxic Leaders' in Ranks This should be good for discussion. Leadership has indeed suffered and we ... in that capacity because I was running a business 7 days a week. But frankly, life was easy back then. Cannot fathom how anybody stays ...

Blog entry - Jun 26 2011 - 6:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... that 'I have no weapons;' so, I won't try to kill you, this time." It seems we are not such an effete culture after all, my Pashtun ... is the mullah. Who will keep the tribes on side? P.S. This week, two Shinwari sub-tribes took up arms to fight each other over an ancient ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... Show Author Info? This article contains the This article contains the following sentence. ... lots to chew on especially in light of the AM thread last week on current use of arty and lots of us firepower in diyala. Is there any ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 7:07am - 48 comments - 0 attachments

... Not to be outdone, The Economist that same week castigated Angela Merkel’s “pigheaded brinkmanship” and ... than either Britain or France. In the past ten years, this predominance has already been reflected in EU institutions, both ...

Journal Article - Nov 29 2011 - 8:32am - 4 comments

... he was ordered instead to return to Afghanistan later this year to work on tribal issues... More at The Washington Post ... To any interested party, Making the rounds this week, talking with a lot of smart folks in the DC area and without getting into ...

Blog entry - Jan 17 2010 - 4:59am - 46 comments - 0 attachments

... April seems like a lifetime ago. In a White House meeting this week that was almost canceled in April, U.S. President Barack Obama ...

Blog entry - May 14 2010 - 3:01pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments