Alliversaries vs. Foellies – American Foreign Policy from Damascus to Kabul
As the world is focused on ISIL in Iraq, this morning’s banner story on nytimes.com is Taliban Mount Major Assault in Afghanistan. Calling it ̶...
Month: June 2014
Interesting TACs of the Week (June 21 – June 27, 2014)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting tweets, articles, videoclips with our comments. This is an article that ex...
A New Home
We have moved to a new software provider because our earlier vendor decided to discontinue their service. We have been able to migrate all our previous articles...
ISIL – The Really Big Mistake
The first step in looking ahead is to look back and correct our misconceptions. Because the way we look ahead is based on our assumptions and the axioms we form...
Interesting TACs of the Week (June 14 – June 20, 2014)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting tweets, articles, videoclips with our comments. This is an article th...
Rinse & Repeat – Levant-i-Stan
A zealous band of unknown unregarded battle hardened religious warriors burst forth from their lair into a neighboring land and destroyed a large installed army...
Interesting TACs of the Week (June 7- June 13, 2014)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting tweets, articles, videoclips with our comments. This is an article th...
The Bergdahl-Taleban Deal – Dumb vs. Smart & Transactional vs. Strategic
The deal of the week – freedom of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for the release of 5 hardcore Taleban detainees at Guantanamo – created a rare bipa...
Interesting TACs of the Week (May 31- June 6, 2014)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting tweets, articles, videoclips with our comments. This is an article th...