by Abu Muqawama | Jul 1, 2012 | Monitor
There are some pretty terrible horror stories in Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s new book, but while reading the new John Lewis Gaddis biography of George F. Kennan, I learned that U.S. diplomats interned by the Germans for six months after the war broke out in 1941 were...
by Abu Muqawama | Jun 26, 2012 | Monitor
Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s excellent if depressing new book Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan comes out today. You may have already read excerpts in the Washington Post. Rajiv wrote much of the book while on leave from the Post and locked away...
by Abu Muqawama | Jun 22, 2012 | Monitor
Anne-Marie Slaughter has decisively demonstrated why she is one of America’s most valuable public intellectuals with this thought-provoking cover story in the Atlantic. I recommend this article to any Washington professionals — male or female —...
by Abu Muqawama | Jun 20, 2012 | Monitor
In case you missed it, I wrote a series of columns for World Politics Review on what I see to be a disturbing trend in U.S. foreign policy: the increasing belief that special operations forces are the answer to each and every tricky problem the United States faces....
by Abu Muqawama | Jun 19, 2012 | Monitor
… U.S. Army LTC and CNAS Military Fellow Tony DeMartino, who was awarded the French Order of Merit for his service in Afghanistan. I got through about eight lines of La Marseillaise in the staff meeting this morning before Ellen told me to be quiet.
