by Dan Day | May 27, 2014 | Monitor
Obama Close to Authorizing Military Training of Syrian Rebels Adam Entous / Wall Street Journal President Barack Obama is close to authorizing a mission led by the U.S. military to train moderate Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked...
by Megan Slack | Nov 25, 2013 | Monitor
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on immigration, at the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center in San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 25, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) In the early 1900s, more than 300,000 people passed through California’s...
by Thomas Doherty | May 15, 2013 | Monitor
By: Thomas Doherty Rebuilding our special reconaissance capability.
by Peter F. Schaefer | Apr 26, 2013 | Monitor
By: Peter F. Schaefer If we ignore village life – or try to bend it to our view of what it should be – we will fail in Afghanistan as we did in Vietnam.
by Joseph J. Collins | Apr 11, 2013 | Monitor
By: Joseph J. Collins One consistently wrong—but always convenient—prediction has been the improbability of ground wars and the declining utility of ground forces.