Posted in Arab Gulf, Geopolitics, Military on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
From MESH Admin
When President Bush set out for the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, he might have been briefed on the U.S. military footprint in the region. A useful inventory is provided in a November paper by James A. Russell, a Gulf analyst and senior lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs, Naval [...]
Posted in Andrew Exum, Counterinsurgency, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Military on Jan 8th, 2008 No Comments »
From Andrew Exum
If there is but one article readers of this blog should take the time to read in the next few days, it is most certainly Matt Matthews’s interview with Israeli general Shimon Naveh on the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. Since I wrote my study of Hezbollah’s performance during the 2006 war, [...]
Posted in Military, Nuclear, Pakistan, Stephen Peter Rosen on Dec 28th, 2007 No Comments »
From Stephen Peter Rosen
The possibility that widespread social unrest in Pakistan might have implications for the security of Pakistani nuclear weapons has always been discounted by those who point, correctly, to the highly professional character of the Pakistani Army. In a set of interviews released late this fall, General Musharraf tried to reassure Americans about [...]
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