by Courtney Corbisiero | May 31, 2013 | Monitor
Watch the West Wing Week here. “You’ve met the mission”: President Obama spoke in Annapolis, Maryland last Friday to deliver the commencement address to the U.S. Naval Academy’s class of 2013. In his address, the President congratulated the...
by The Long War Journal | May 31, 2013 | Monitor
The State Department released its Country Reports on Terrorism 2012 yesterday. The year 2012 witnessed a “marked resurgence of Iran’s state sponsorship of terrorism, through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), its Ministry of...
by Will McCants | May 31, 2013 | Monitor
Earlier this week, the AP’s Rukmini Callimachi revealed one of the memos she discovered in the sixth trashbag full of AQIM documents she collected in the aftermath of the French attack on jihadis in Timbuktu in January. The memo, dated October 2012, is from the...
by Matthew Wallin | May 31, 2013 | Monitor
Putin’s numerous publicity stunts have generated a series of memes. Is this soft power? Earlier this week I attended an event held by the Alfa Fellowship Alumni Association discussing Russian soft power. Panelists included John Brown, Jill Doherty, and Yelena...
by Brendan McNally | May 31, 2013 | Monitor
The American military abandoned the M40 recoilless rifle after Vietnam. Yet the weapon keeps showing up in Libya and Syria, decades after its supposed retirement.
