by Posted by AD Brown | Nov 26, 2011 | Monitor
Afghanistan Andrew Exum believes that demands for greater power for Afghan forces is good for America’s negotiating position. Freelance consult Jay Ulfelder looks at what anthropologists think about Afghanistan. Counter-insurgency Arda Bilgen compares Mao and David...
by lundry | Nov 21, 2011 | Indonesia, Islam, Israel, Obama, Politics, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized
by Chris Lundry President Obama has now made his second trip in office to the land where he spent four years of his youth, Indonesia, while on a trip to Asia and Australia. Although Obama’s time in Indonesia was brief, he was welcomed relatively warmly by most...
by humbleauthor | Nov 21, 2011 | Monitor
Perception is reality. All sorts of media outlets are going into a low hover today over PERF, the Police Executive Research Forum, a think-tank that serves police chiefs of major cities in the US and apparently Canada. (See here, here, and here for examples.) It...
by humbleauthor | Nov 21, 2011 | Monitor
My friend Ryan Evans’ excellent review of Fawaz Gerges’ new book, The Rise and Fall of Al Qaeda got me thinking about conspiracy theorism and its relationship to Al Qaeda’s fortunes. Ryan takes issue with Gerges’ contention that Al Qaeda never really had a “viable...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Nov 20, 2011 | Monitor
I'm posting an expanded version of the remarks I gave at Newman University in Wichita on November 3, 2011. The linked document consists of the notes, "cleaned up" and organized into something coherent. Download "FacesNotes" (.pdf) I could...
