The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and which has been discredited by data obtained by IPS from the Pentagon itsel ...
This is THE day! It’s a day set aside by the founding fathers, to allow citizens to show their enthusiam, their support, and their pride… BY BLOWIN’ STUFF UP! It doesn’t get any better than this, folks! It a day to commemorate that blessed event… kicking the Bejeezus outta anybody who’s trying to su ...
To build off Daphne’s post about defining the battlefield on which detentions occur, Hofstra law professor Eric M. Freedman writes in to make a point about the constitutional differences between a Congressionally-declared war and the situation we’ve been in since 9/11, in which Congress authorized t ...
Since my piece on the intensifying battle over “preventive detention” was published, Ken Gude from the Center for American Progress wrote to point out an important distinction that deserves more emphasis. As I note in my story, Gude and Kate Martin, Director of the Center for National Security Studi ...
One of the elements that sparked my interest in Los Zetas is their ambitious diversification–drug trafficking is only one component in their transnational business portfolio. Human smuggling is one of their more profitiable ventures. In 2008 over 11,500 undocumented Cubans made their way through Mex ...
Last night, Tuesday June 30, three videos were posted at YouTube by the shadowy paramilitary, Mata Zetas–”Kill Zetas”–in which six alleged Zetas “confess” to various crimes. I posted on this group yesterday before the videos were released. It appears the videos were made in or near Veracruz–because, ...
The system will be installed on planes owned by Israeli commercial airlines. Globes’ correspondent Defense electronics company Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT) will supply the Ministry of Transportation with a laser-based system to defend commercial aircraft from missiles fired at them. ...
One of the phrases that you hear often in DoD doctrinal publications is that the current (and coming) era is one of "persistent conflict" or, in its more family-friendly iteration, "persistent engagement." What does "persistent conflict," however, look like? Ariel Siegelman argues in an article for ...
Interesting NYT article on withdrawal process: "No doubt, many Iraqi military and police units are competent enough to operate on their own, but most military analysts who have studied the matter will concede that many if not most still are not. 'We need to extend the SOFA' — the Status of Forces Ag ...
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