by dtrombly | Oct 9, 2012 | Monitor
Jason Fritz at Ink Spots has an excellent review up of Anthony Beevor’s new single-volume history of World War II. I haven’t read the work (although Fritz’s review has moved it further up my to-read list), but the post raises some excellent points about how we view...
by dtrombly | Oct 8, 2012 | Monitor
While cheap precision weapons, supposedly expendable drones, and invulnerable standoff fires continue to fascinate publics and intrigue policy makers, we should be careful before subsuming these developments into a coming “new way of war.” As a recent RAND study...
by dtrombly | Sep 25, 2012 | Monitor
Marisa Porges has a forceful op-ed in today’s NYT making the case for beefing up the capture component of U.S. counterterrorism efforts. Read the whole thing: At the moment, the United States has nowhere to hold and interrogate newly captured terrorists. America...
by dtrombly | Sep 17, 2012 | Monitor
When over a dozen insurgents attacked Camp Bastion’s airfield with explosive vests, automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and possibly truck-borne mortars, they inflicted the greatest loss on VMA-211 since December 8, 1941, when the unit – then designated...
by dtrombly | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
When Egyptian rioters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, raising the black banners (and bizarrely enough, some were hiding behind Guy Fawkes’s now ubiquitous visage), the news was bad enough. A handful of well-financed cranks, advancing a deluded and hateful but...
