While U.S. officials continue to publicly advocate arming and aiding the armed groups in Syria, others say the opposition's turn to violence has stymied a revolution and strengthened the Assad regime. Hugo Dixon from Reuters: The Assad regime probably likes the fact...
From Steve Clemons at the Atlantic: A Republican, numbers-compulsive defense wonk at the Center for Defense Information, Winslow Wheeler, has published a great summary of what America's defense budget 'really' is. Wheeler offers a chart of the budget figures for both...
For a bit more on Khader Adnan, see here.
Yesterday's New York Times featured a long article detailing Russian arms sales to the contested regime in Syria. It described video footage of "vintage Soviet tanks" rolling through the city of Homs and satellite images released by the State Department showing...
Last week I wrote about some recent polling which suggests the American public, contrary to the collective narrative we hear about, is relatively supportive of military action against Iran in order to prevent it attaining nuclear weapons. Daniel Larison thinks that...
Readers may already be familiar with the tiny town of Keene, NH despite its population of some 20,000 people in rural New Hampshire. The town has been a major site for the Free State Project and radio advertisements mentioning Keene are heard regularly when listening...
The indispensable Jeremy Scahill has a new report on Yemen at Nation magazine. The article goes in depth with U.S.-supported Yemeni security forces and reiterates criticisms of President Saleh, that he allowed al-Qaeda militants to gain ground in the country in order...
The Washington Post reports that "NATO has resumed handing over Taliban detainees to the custody of Afghanistan’s government, following a break of nearly four months after the coalition halted the practice on the grounds that prisoners faced torture by Afghan...
After it became clear that a UN resolution on Syria was not in the cards due to vetoes from Russia and China, many pointed to the rising specter of Syria becoming a theater of proxy conflict between various powers. A Syrian in Damascus, who could not be named for...
