Category Archives: Strategy

March 5, 2013

Things Get Worse…

Catching up on some stuff I don’t want to slip by: The most important news of the past few days is arguably contained in a somewhat-buried article in the New York Times by Robert F. Worth and C.J. Chiver, entitled … Continue reading

Posted in Iran, Strategy, Yemen | 6 Comments
October 24, 2012

What They Should Have Debated

It’s been a while since I addressed specifically Middle Eastern issues in this space, but of course that does not mean nothing is going on there worth commenting upon. If anything, too much is going on. In addition to the … Continue reading

Posted in General, Jewcentricity, Strategy | 2 Comments
June 11, 2012

More Fish?

By far the biggest political story of the weekend, and one likely to be with us in one form or another for a while, concerns Administration leaks of sensitive national security matters (mainly) to the New York Times. The basics … Continue reading

Posted in General, Strategy | 4 Comments
May 25, 2012

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 | 23 Comments