31/01/2007 |
Privatize the CIA: Our Intelligence Community Could Use More Competition
Michael Rubin | Weekly Standard
Twice this past week, on January 23 and 25, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held hearings on intelligence reform. Topics included the remaining 9/11 Commission recommendations and efforts both to facilitate information-sharing across the U.S. government's 16 intelligence agencies and to increase the number of operatives and linguists. ...
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31/01/2007 |
National Security in the Age of Terrorism
Charles W. Freeman Jr | American Diplomacy
“The problems we confront in Iraq and on other less central fronts in our confrontation with anti-American terrorists are primarily political, not military.” ...
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31/01/2007 |
La frontera militarizada
Jorge Luis Sierra | El Universal
Es urgente evaluar la fuerza militar simultánea que México y EU aplican en su frontera común. El esfuerzo parece loable y necesario, pues la disposición a la violencia de los cárteles de la droga, y el tipo y cantidad de armamento que poseen, los ha convertido en una de las amenazas más formidables que han existido para la seguridad de los dos países. ...
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31/01/2007 |
Privatize the CIA: Our Intelligence Community Could Use More Competition
Michael Rubin | Weekly Standard
Twice this past week, on January 23 and 25, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held hearings on intelligence reform. Topics included the remaining 9/11 Commission recommendations and efforts both to facilitate information-sharing across the U.S. government's 16 intelligence agencies and to increase the number of operatives and linguists. ...
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31/01/2007 |
National Security in the Age of Terrorism
Charles W. Freeman Jr | American Diplomacy
“The problems we confront in Iraq and on other less central fronts in our confrontation with anti-American terrorists are primarily political, not military.” ...
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29/01/2007 |
Losing Lebanon
P. David Hornik | Front Page Magazine
Israel’s month of fighting Hezbollah last summer in Lebanon combined some effective air attacks on missile installations with confused, inconclusive actions on the ground. On August 11, around when Israel appeared to have learned lessons and was set to launch a serious ground campaign against Hezbollah, the UN Security Council imposed Resolution 1701 and stopped the offensive in its tracks. ...
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29/01/2007 |
Crime in Mexico
The Economist Staff | The Economist
The new president has sent the army after the drug mobs. More importantly, he has started to reform the police. ...
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29/01/2007 |
La situación en Oriente Próximo. Vientos de guerra soplan sobre Irán
Antonio Caño | El Pais (Es)
Los últimos movimientos de Bush muestran un aumento de tensión con tintes prebélicos. EE UU vive en estos días un ambiente prebélico muy similar al que se respiraba antes de la invasión de Irak en 2003. El objetivo ahora es nada menos que Irán. ...
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29/01/2007 |
Losing Lebanon
P. David Hornik | Front Page Magazine
Israel’s month of fighting Hezbollah last summer in Lebanon combined some effective air attacks on missile installations with confused, inconclusive actions on the ground. On August 11, around when Israel appeared to have learned lessons and was set to launch a serious ground campaign against Hezbollah, the UN Security Council imposed Resolution 1701 and stopped the offensive in its tracks. ...
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29/01/2007 |
Crime in Mexico
The Economist Staff | The Economist
The new president has sent the army after the drug mobs. More importantly, he has started to reform the police. ...
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