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On Cybersecurity For The Internet Of Things
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by Herbert Linvia Lawfare
George Shultz and Henry Kissinger testify before the US Senate Armed Services Committee
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featuring George P. Shultz, Henry A. Kissingervia United States Senate
CIA Headquarters
Let the C.I.A. Do What It Is Supposed to Do
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by Amy Zegartvia New York Times
Red, White And Peaceful: Advancing U.S. Security Through Peaceful Means
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by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Kiron K. Skinnervia National Interest
White House at night
Keeping The Public In The Dark
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by Kori Schakevia US News
War Plane
Five Principles That Should Govern Any U.S. Authorization Of Force
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by Jack Goldsmith, Ryan Goodman, Steve Vladeck via Washington Post
Obama, Not Bush, Is the Master of Unilateral War
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by Jack Goldsmith, Matthew Waxmanvia New Republic
Views from Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (Ret.)
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featuring Admiral Gary Rougheadvia US Senate
War Plane
Airstrikes Can Only Do So Much to Combat ISIS
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by Joseph Feltervia Room for Debate (New York Times)
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The Amoral Nature of the Pawn Strategy
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by Victor Davis Hansonvia Corner (National Review Online)

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Iraq Without War

with Larry Diamondvia San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, February 26, 2007

Would things be better, or worse, in Baghdad four years later if the United States had not invaded?

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A Trinity of Fantasists

with Niall Fergusonvia Human Events Online
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Wherever they are I hope the authors of our Constitution are pondering the spectacle now bedazzling Capitol Hill...

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Analysis and Commentary

Democrats Disingenuous in Their Anti-War Rhetoric

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Tribune Media Services
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Why did a majority of Democratic Senators - such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller and Chuck Schumer - vote to authorize a war with Iraq on Oct. 11, 2002?

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Some Links

with Tod Lindbergvia Corner (National Review Online)
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

These articles are all by smart liberals, and I agree with most of what they have to say. Here's something from a smart conservative, Tod Lindberg...

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Analysis and Commentary

The Democrats and the war

by Tod Lindbergvia Washington Times
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The House vote opposing the surge in Iraq drew 17 Republicans, far fewer than Democrats hoped, so the scenario of a collapse in congressional support for the war effort forcing President Bush's hand has been averted for now...

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Analysis and Commentary

Obama's muddled stance on foreign intervention

by Niall Fergusonvia Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

If politics were a fairy tale, Barack Obama would surely be the next president of the United States...

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In the News

Bay Area Afghans React To Troop Resurgence

with Larry Diamondvia KGO News
Thursday, February 15, 2007

President Bush said the attacks against international forces in Afghanistan skyrocketed in 2006...

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Something Different

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Works and Days
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

I have almost finished a long novel (should be done by July), No Man A Slave, about the great march of the Boiotians under the general Epaminondas, in winter and spring 369 B.C., to liberate the Messenian helots from Spartan rule...

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Analysis and Commentary

How to stop the U.S. from being Goliath

by Niall Fergusonvia Los Angeles Times
Monday, February 12, 2007

Two vignettes say much about the American way of war...

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Analysis and Commentary

We must stop Bush bombing Iran, and stop Iran getting the bomb

by Timothy Garton Ashvia Guardian (UK)
Thursday, February 8, 2007

We should not bomb Iran to prevent Iran getting the bomb...

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