Been off the blogging sphere recently because of travel; now that I’m back home in Colorado thought I would give my thoughts on the Libyan situation. As I write this, according to press reports, anti-government forces are in control of most of the eastern portion of Libya, to include a large segment of the oil […]
Been traveling this past week so have not had time to blog but wanted to do an update on Egypt. After apparently losing the support of the military and facing continuing demonstrations, President Mubarak has stepped down and turned over all power to his Vice President, Vice President Omar Suleiman. According to a New York […]
The New York Times just put out a news alert stating: “The Obama administration is discussing with Egyptian officials a proposal for President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately, turning over power to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military, administration officials and Arab diplomats said Thursday.” […]
Last week I blogged about Human Rights, China, and National Security Policy; in light of ongoing events in Egypt I thought I would expand on those thoughts as applied to the Egyptian uprising. As I write this, President Mubarak has asked his cabinet to resign and has appointed for the first time since coming into […]
Like many Americans I watched the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao this week with great interest. My original intent had been to focus on defense related issues like China’s rising Pacific naval presence and their relations with North Korea; but an item in the 20 January issue of the Washington Post unexpectedly caught my […]
To the surprise of probably no one, on Tuesday the Navy announced that Captain Owen Honors had been removed from command of the USS Enterprise in the wake of the furor caused by articles in the media over videos he apparently produced and starred in while serving as the Executive Officer in 2006 and 2007. […]
Been spending the holidays with my 83 years young Mom so have been over eating and not blogging. I’m on my net notebook and still have not figured out how to do spell check! Sorry. Here are my thoughts on 2010. Overview 2010 saw Afghanistan become the top defense issue as the US and NATO […]
Still traveling, in Saint Louis for a speaking engagement after spending Thanksgiving with my Mom; but wanted to comment on the most recent crisis with North Korea. 2010 marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War and the 57th of the Mutual Defense Treaty we signed with South Korea. Yet though 60 […]
With the mid term elections over, Afghanistan is once more in the news headlines. Over the weekend Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai gave an interview to the Washington Post criticizing the NATO war strategy. Karzai stated: “we’d like the Afghan countryside…not to be so overwhelmed with the military presence…you can have the U.S. presence in the […]
Been spending a lot of time blogging about Afghanistan, thought it was time to look at what’s happening in Iraq. The impetus for me was press reports of increasing numbers of insurgent attacks against Iraqi citizens and the continued inability of Iraq to set up a functioning government in the aftermath of the March elections. […]
There has been a lot of media coverage addressing fighting in Kandahar, possible peace talks with the Taliban but very little on the stabilty operation parts of the COIN strategy. As mentioned in my last Blog, I recently participated in several Afghanistan themed Department of Defense Bloggers roundtables. Topics covered during the roundtables were training […]
Been silent the last couple of weeks because of bouts with a sinus infection and bronchitis. I did get out of bed a few times to participate in some Department of Defense sponsored bloggers roundtables on Afghanistan. More about that later and kudos to the Department of Defense for providing the venue. If there is […]
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