In advance of the December 31 deadline set by the UN mandate, Iraq has reached an agreement with the US to pull all troops out of Iraq cities by June 2009 and to exit the country entirely by the end of 2011. War is a failure of...
Read MoreAn under assessed consequence of the mass exodus from Iraq by those hoping to escape the violence, lack of water, electricity and unemployment is the loss of the technical and professional members of the former Iraq society. The...
Read MoreNothing in my life has been more frustrating than being led by incompetent leaders. This first part of a two part article from Asia Times illustrates just how maddening it is for the military to be bound to the will of an...
Read More‘Smart power’, an artful term to describe the blending of ‘hard’ (military force) and ‘soft’ (diplomacy) is a concept borne out of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’...
Read More