by Paul Hamill | Apr 29, 2015 | Monitor
This is a cross-post post from The Hill. It has now been over a year since Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to invade sovereign Ukrainian territory, then annexed Crimea. Since that time the Kremlin has continued to support the destabilization of eastern...
by Kennington Cung | Mar 9, 2015 | Monitor
Last week, the UCLA-Ronald Reagan Medical Center reported two patients had died after contracting a “superbug.” As investigations continue into how and what caused these deaths and the possible exposure of 175 people, connecting stories to the cases at UCLA are...
by Kennington Cung | Feb 26, 2015 | Monitor
On February 23, 2015, in Quetta, Pakistan over 400 teams of healthcare workers began an eight day campaign to inoculate of 478,000 children against polio. The men and women bring with them paperwork, information handouts, coolers containing the vaccines, and an...
by Marylin Carino | Jan 5, 2015 | Monitor
Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Libyan warplane bombs Greek-operated oil tanker at port, two dead Aymen Al Warfalli and Angeliki Koutantou | Reuters A Libyan warplane from forces loyal to the internationally recognized government bombed a Greek-operated...
by BGen Stephen A. Cheney USMC (Ret.) | Dec 22, 2014 | Monitor
Les Gelb, ever the wise sage, has hit the nail on the head. It always seems so easy to just send in the 82nd Airborne Division, let them perform their magic for a year or two, then pull them out and think the problem is solved. Never, never that simple. It almost...
