by aelkus | Aug 2, 2013 | Monitor
One long, deadly night in an isolated outpost in a place few Americans could place on a map. A tragic turn of events and Americans dead. The headline could stand in for a dizzying number of places from the Horn of Africa to Afghanistan. So why Benghazi? Why has it...
by aelkus | Jul 31, 2013 | Monitor
Periodically, I’d like to give Abu M readers some exposure to interesting thinkers they may not otherwise read. I’m leading off the first interview with Charles Cameron. It’s hard to exactly summarize his interesting career. Though his work on...
by aelkus | Jul 26, 2013 | Monitor
Yesterday, DC Twitter had fun at the expense of overly fantastic threat scenarios—and I mean they were mostly snarking at EMPs. This caused Abu M coblogger Dan Trombly to remark that national security analysis solely needed a “logistical Occam’s...
by aelkus | Jul 15, 2013 | Monitor
Thanks to Mark Safranski, I read Indian LTG Prakosh Katosh’s essay “Optimizing the Potential of Special Forces.” It is, Mark implies, a tour-de-horizon of a defense policy that has failed to protect the Indian state. He paints a dire picture of...
by aelkus | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
A new Guardian op-ed declares that failed states are a “myth” that was “invented” in order to support Western interventions in the global South. While it is plausible that some within the NGO community are invested in the concept of failed...
