Author: Damir Marusic

By Feb 12,2009

Reaching out to Russia

The Washington Times reports that Mike McFaul and Undersecretary William Burns are off to Moscow to talk Kyrgyz basing with the Russians. Via Spencer Ackerman, an earlier version of the...

By Feb 11,2009

The Plan for Afghanistan?

Chris Brose, reporting on/from the Munich security conference, writes a long post on Afghanistan. This part caught my eye: What I heard again and again is that we may have...

By Feb 11,2009

Against Democratic Peace Theory

Will Inboden writes a long screed on Obama and the prospects for democracy promotion during his administration. Like pretty much everything on Shadow Government, it’s very much worth reading. He...

By Feb 11,2009

The Af-Pak Dilemma

I was going to respond to David Adesnik’s post directly when Christian Brose went ahead and did part of it for me—sort of: Now, don’t get me wrong: The two...

By Feb 06,2009

Evaluating Reagan’s Legacy

For those of you who don’t have today’s date memorized and/or set as a repeating event in your Google Calendar, today is Ronald Reagan’s birthday. Over on the main page,...