by The Long War Journal | Jan 30, 2015 | Monitor
Ibrahim al Rubaish (left) and Harith bin Ghazi al Nadhari (right) are both AQAP ideologues. Along with eight other jihadists, including two from the Al Nusrah Front, they issued a statement addressing the Caucasus jihadists who have defected to the Islamic State. This...
by The Long War Journal | Jan 30, 2015 | Monitor
The Taliban claimed last evening’s attack at Kabul International Airport that killed three American contractors. The insider or green-on-blue attack, where a member of the Afghan security forces kills Coalition personnel, is the first of its kind recorded this...
by Matt Armstrong | Jan 30, 2015 | Monitor
Archibald MacLeish: The right to a free press — the right of the people to read and to hear and therefore to think as they please — is, I deeply believe, the basic right upon which freedom rests. Freedom of exchange of information between the peoples of...
by Matt Armstrong | Jan 30, 2015 | Monitor
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. Everything’s done on a very high level, there’s a lot of commotion, and it takes twenty-two months for anything to happen. Source: Cary Reich, The life...
by zen | Jan 30, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] We at ZP would like to thank Colonel Stan Coerr for his permission to reprint this essay, written on the eve of his retirement last July, after a quarter century of of military service in the Marine Corps Reserve and on...