Category Archives: Afghanistan
Syria (and Afghanistan) in Detail
It’s another Monday, and another day just flat out made for a slash-and-burn romp through the newspapers. Today’s papers once again evoked in me that old graveyard laugh. I’m not becoming a curmudgeon, I promise. It’s just that my ruminations … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Syria
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Look Before You Leap
It used to be, I think, that the vast majority of strategists and statesmen played chess, or in non-Western cultures some comparably complex game that required players to anticipate what their opponents might do in an extended sequence of moves. … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Strategy, Yemen
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