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  1. Pinned: Just Military News and Commentary (772 replies)
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  4. China, India 'May Stir Up Regional War': Army Report - Cameron Stewart, The Australian. An internal army report has given a more threatening assessmen (2 replies)
  5. NATO (4 replies)
  6. Riskless War Technology, Coercive Diplomacy, and the Lure of Limited War (0 replies)
  7. Obama's Right on Target in Afghanistan - Max Boot, Los Angeles Times opinion. (0 replies)
  8. Petraeus's Tougher Fight - David Ignatius, Washington Post opinion. (0 replies)
  9. In Afghanistan, New General, Same War by Robert Dreyfuss, TheNation.com (1 reply)
  10. 94 Billion Reasons to Rethink Afghanistan Video: Veterans urge members of Congress to vote no on the $94 billion supplemental war funding bill. (0 replies)
  11. Who Are the Real Psychopaths in Afghanistan? By Chris Hedges, Truthdig (0 replies)
  12. What Made Him Snap? Soldier Goes on Killing Spree in Baghdad 'Stress Clinic' Penny Coleman, AlterNet War on Iraq (0 replies)
  13. A New Look at the Af/Pak Crisis By Douglas Farah (0 replies)
  14. REBRANDING THE LONG WAR, Part 2 Balochistan is the ultimate prize (1 reply)
  15. Petraeus: Taliban Threaten Existence of Pakistan (1 reply)
  16. Obama Aide: Gays in Military Policy Under Review (0 replies)
  17. Petraeus: Al Qaeda No Longer Operating in Afghanistan (0 replies)
  18. General Sees a Longer Stay in Iraq Cities for U.S. Troops By ELISABETH BUMILLER Gen. Ray Odierno said onefifth of American combat troops would stay b (0 replies)
  19. End of Story (0 replies)
  20. Pakistan Again Squares Off Against Taliban in Swat (0 replies)
  21. Understanding the Long War - Tom Hayden, The Nation. (0 replies)
  22. Give the Afghan Army a Governance Role - Bing West, Wall Street Journal opinon. (0 replies)
  23. The Annotated Iraq Study Group Recommendations: What Makes Sense, What Made Sense Then but Doesn't Now, and What Never Made Sense (0 replies)
  24. Iraq on brink of third great mistake By W Andrew Terrill (1 reply)
  25. 'Hybrid War' to Pull U.S. Military in Two Directions, Flournoy Says By John J. Kruzel American Forces Press Service (0 replies)
  26. TACTICS IN COUNTERINSURGENCY (1 reply)
  27. China (0 replies)
  28. US General Says Pakistan Could be Just Two Weeks from Collapse - Isambard Wilkinson, Daily Telegraph. (0 replies)
  29. Garbage, Lies, and Uncertainties Deception vs. Risk in War by Bing West Reprinted with Permission by Marine Corps Gazette (0 replies)
  30. Torture Advocates will Set the Military Back for Generations (0 replies)
  31. ABU GHRAIB GUARDS: WE WERE SCAPEGOATS FOR BUSH (0 replies)
  32. SOF vs. SOF-like by Brigadier General Bennet S. Sacolick (0 replies)
  33. Training Afghans as Bullets Fly: A Young Marine’s Dream Job - C. J. Chivers, New York Times (0 replies)
  34. The American Military Advisor" - Michael J. Metrinko, Middle East Quarterly (0 replies)
  35. Iraq's Still-Violent Reality (0 replies)
  36. What "Sweeping Overhaul" in DOD? (0 replies)
  37. Panel Advises Clarifying US Plans on Cyberwar (0 replies)
  38. National Security Facilitator - David Ignatius, Washington Post opinion. (0 replies)
  39. Gates's Next Lever to Reshape the Pentagon: QDR - Gordon Lubold, Christian Science Monitor (0 replies)
  40. US Takes Dutch Military as Role Model in Afghan Operation - Jay Solomon, Wall Street Journal (0 replies)
  41. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) (0 replies)
  42. ARMY INTEL JOURNAL BACK ONLINE (0 replies)
  43. $10 Billion and Getting Worse (1 reply)
  44. Petraeus: What I Learned in Iraq, and How it Applies to Afghanistan - Christa Case Bryant and Carol Huang, Christian Science Monitor (2 replies)
  45. Errant Drone Attacks Spur Militants in Pakistan Predator Blowback By GARETH PORTER (7 replies)
  46. Reservists Might Be Used in Afghanistan To Fill Civilian Jobs - Karen DeYoung, Washington Post (0 replies)
  47. Pentagon to Release Photos of Detainee Abuse By Ann Scott Tyson (0 replies)
  48. The Destabilization of Pakistan: Finding Clarity in the Baluchistan Conundrum - by Talha Mujaddidi (0 replies)
  49. The Taliban’s “AfPak” Strategy: A Jihadi Preemptive War By Walid Phares (0 replies)
  50. It's Time to Begin Healing Our Own Bankrupted Land, Pull Out of Iraq This Year (6 replies)
  51. Ill Veterans Demand Answers Kelley Vlahos on Agent Orange/Gulf War Syndrome redux (0 replies)
  52. Talibanistan Robert Dreyfuss: These are apocalyptic times in Pakistan (0 replies)
  53. Eurasian "Diplomacy": Russia and China confront the US and NATO over Afghanistan NATO, SCO or PATO? - by Eric Walberg - 2009-04-22 (0 replies)
  54. Cybersecurity and Counterintelligence By Douglas Farah (0 replies)
  55. Jihad Corsairs on High Seas: What's Behind them? By Walid Phares (0 replies)
  56. Vijay Prashad Obama's Afghan Plan: Fracturing the Antiwar Movement (0 replies)
  57. Gareth Porter U.S. Lacks Capacity to Win Over Afghans (0 replies)
  58. April 27 Discussion on Our Decaying Armed Forces (0 replies)
  59. # Why We Should Get Rid of West Point by SWJ Editors (0 replies)
  60. # Why We Should Get Rid of West Point by SWJ Editors (0 replies)
  61. # Karzai and Holbrooke Interviews by SWJ Editors (0 replies)
  62. # Gates Proposes Change in Strategy by SWJ Editors (0 replies)
  63. # Pentagon Jams Web, Radio Links of Taliban by SWJ Editors (0 replies)
  64. Gates warns against Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities (1 reply)
  65. The end of the long march (0 replies)
  66. Defense Budget Cuts Hinge on Political Clout - CQ Politics (0 replies)
  67. A Tempered View of Gates' Budget Cutbacks (0 replies)
  68. Will Obama Vacate Iraq? by Nasir Khan (0 replies)
  69. The iSoldier How the Army Can Capitalize on Technologically Savvy Troops (0 replies)
  70. Talking to the Taliban - Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic (0 replies)
  71. Nir Rosen: The gathering storm (0 replies)
  72. Two new and important books are now available. (0 replies)
  73. PENTAGON PREPS FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC WARFARE (1 reply)
  74. Somali Pirates Seize 21 American Sailors (2 replies)
  75. Newshour with Jim Lehrer Interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates By Judy Woodruff 7 April 2009 (1 reply)
  76. Influence Squadrons (0 replies)
  77. Electricity Grid in US Penetrated By Spies - Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal (0 replies)
  78. IRAQ Obama Cautions Iraqis on Future (0 replies)
  79. Congress Girds for Defense Budget Battle - Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes (0 replies)
  80. Gates Budget Plan Reshapes Pentagon’s Priorities (0 replies)
  81. Filling the Skies with Robot Assassins: The Drone Wars Have Begun Tom Engelhardt (0 replies)
  82. Korean Missile Launch (8 replies)
  83. Remaking the Pentagon for the 21st Century By Douglas Farah (0 replies)
  84. Gates Reins In Bloated Defense Budget (0 replies)
  85. Comments on SecDef Gates’ April 6 Press Conference Winslow T. Wheeler (0 replies)
  86. The Secrets of Obama's Surge By Pepe Escobar (0 replies)
  87. New York Massacre; Pakistan Taliban says ‘We did it’ (0 replies)
  88. Reading between the Lines of GAO's New Report, John Young's Reclama, and the Cost Growth Problem (0 replies)
  89. Navy's Big Weakness: Our Aircraft Carriers Are (Expensive) Defenseless Sitting Ducks Gary Brecher, AlterNet (0 replies)
  90. US plans three billion dollar military boost for Pakistan: report Washington (AFP) April 3, 2009 - (0 replies)
  91. Washington Post Presents Mexican Drug War Series (1 reply)
  92. Can Pakistan Be Governed? - James Traub, New York Times (0 replies)
  93. From Washington to Kabul to Beijing Assessing Prospects for U.S.-China-Afghanistan Cooperation by Nirav Patel and David Capezza, Small Wars Journal (0 replies)
  94. How Do We Save NATO? We Quit by Andrew J. Bacevich (0 replies)
  95. Obama's Blackwater? Chicago Mercenary Firm Gets Millions for Private "Security" in Israel and Iraq Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet (0 replies)
  96. Pentagon Explains Dover Media Rules (0 replies)
  97. Report: Chinese Develop Special "Kill Weapon" to Destroy U.S. Aircraft Carriers Advanced missile poses substantial new threat for U.S. Navy (1 reply)
  98. Pentagon War Spending Tops $685 Billion $296 Billion in Overruns in US Weapons Programs (0 replies)
  99. CIVIL RIGHTS -- GATES ON REPEALING DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL: 'LET'S PUSH THAT ONE DOWN THE ROAD': (0 replies)
  100. US ARMY ON COMBATING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (0 replies)
  101. Obama Unveils Strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan (5 replies)
  102. Pakistani president backs Obama's al-Qaida strategy guardian.co.uk (0 replies)
  103. MEXICO / WAR ON DRUGS Hillary Clinton Wraps Up Mexico Visit, Calls Drug Violence 'Intolerable' - Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times (0 replies)
  104. The Force We Can Afford (0 replies)
  105. Obama's Afghan Quagmire Deepens: Tisdall (3 replies)
  106. What Does an F-22 Cost?: W. Wheeler (0 replies)
  107. White Paper of the Interagency Policy Group's Report on U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan (0 replies)
  108. CT or COIN? Obama must choose this week between two radically different Afghanistan policies. (3 replies)
  109. 'In real terms, Nato is losing' (0 replies)
  110. US FOREIGN POLICY It's Time to 'Go to Strength' on Foreign Policy - Leslie H. Gelb, Wall Street Journal opinion (0 replies)
  111. The Most Pervasive Combat Injury Among U.S. Soldiers is Invisible -- and the Pentagon Has Tried to Keep it That Way Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet (0 replies)
  112. ISRAEL AS A NUCLEAR POWER (0 replies)
  113. An Alternative to War in Afghanistan: R. Dreyfuss (0 replies)
  114. Pentagon Rethinking Old Doctrine on 2 Wars (1 reply)
  115. Iraq/Afghan War News: Iraq to get Abrams Washington DC (UPI) Mar 13, 2009 (0 replies)
  116. Pentagon opposes dual tanker deal Washington (AFP) March 13, 2009 (0 replies)
  117. US confident Pakistan military committed to civilian rule Washington (AFP) March 14, 2009 (0 replies)
  118. Russia weighs Cuba, Venezuela bases for bombers: report Moscow (AFP) March 14, 2009 (0 replies)
  119. + Sarkozy to open first Gulf military base in Abu Dhabi: report Dubai (AFP) March 14, 2009 (0 replies)
  120. Obama Aims to Protect Military Officials Associated Press|March 14, 2009 Obama Aims to Protect Military Officials (0 replies)
  121. Joint Warfare in the 21st Century - General James Mattis, Foreign Policy Research Institute (0 replies)
  122. America’s Broken Interagency - Hon. Thomas A. Schweich, Foreign Policy Research Institute (0 replies)
  123. NATIONAL SECURITY -- OBAMA CONSIDERING DEPLOYING TROOPS TO CURB DRUG WAR VIOLENCE ON MEXICAN BORDER (0 replies)
  124. How is Afghanistan Different from Al Anbar? By Carter Malkasian and Gerald Meyerle of the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA's Stability and Development (0 replies)
  125. Secretary Gates On Afghanistan Mission, Iraq Exit (0 replies)
  126. Military Policy Forum March 13, 2009 (0 replies)
  127. China (0 replies)
  128. US General Says Allies ‘Not Winning’ Afghan War - Alan Cowell, New York Times (0 replies)
  129. US NATIONAL SECURITY Cutting Defense Too Deeply - John McHugh, Washington Times opinion (0 replies)
  130. To Whom Should our Generals Listen? (0 replies)
  131. The Emerging Obama Doctrine - Gordon Lubold, Christian Science Monitor (0 replies)
  132. US, CHINA AND INCIDENTS AT SEA (0 replies)
  133. March 6, 2009 'Jihadi penetration of Pakistan’s armed forces is at the center of all concerns in any new strategy' By Walid Phares (0 replies)
  134. Playing Defense: Winslow Wheeler/Pierre Sprey (0 replies)
  135. Catch F-22 for Obama - Christian Science Monitor editorial (0 replies)
  136. Obama and Defense Pork (0 replies)
  137. Obama gets it right on Iraq by Marc Lynch (0 replies)
  138. Military Review: March - April 2009 Issue (0 replies)
  139. Adm. Mullen Says Iran Has Material for Bomb - Wall Street Journal (0 replies)
  140. Afghan "War" Occupation Should Last Until 2025: Ex-Commander (0 replies)
  141. Is A Major War A Possibility In 2009? The Historical Antecedents By Dr. Frederic F. Clairmont (0 replies)
  142. Which Gates Is Secretary of Defense? (0 replies)
  143. Obama Cites Responsibility to 'Get It Right' in Iraq, Afghanistan (0 replies)
  144. North Korea (2 replies)
  145. Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Brink: Framing U.S. Policy Options - Frederick Barton, Karin von Hippel, Mark Irvine, Thomas Patterson, (0 replies)
  146. Nagl and Bacevich on Afghanistan... (0 replies)
  147. Afganistan and Iraq - What If? by Dexter Filkens (0 replies)
  148. Senator John McCain on Winning the War in Afghanistan (0 replies)
  149. America's Defense Meltdown (4 replies)
  150. Obama Administration Continues US Military Global Dominance by Peter Phillips (0 replies)
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