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

Lippmann’s Law

I’m not as prepared as Damir is to take for granted, even temporarily, Christian Brose’s statement that “we should not allow resources to determine strategy” in Afghanistan. Every time I...

By • Feb 11,2009

Afghanistan, resources vs. strategy

“We should not allow resources to determine strategy.” Standing on its own, this statement embodies a classic fallacy of defense planning. Resources are the foundation of any coherent strategy. However,...

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

Yup. That’s terrorism.

There’s a great scene at the end of the conclusion of the Cartoon Wars twofer on South Park in which Kyle excoriates a group of callow Fox executives who have...

By • Feb 11,2009

The WaPo gets it

To my surprise, this morning’s Post had a whole article about how Obama caricatures the opponents of the stimulus as people who want to do nothing in the midst of...