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17 June 2014

The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth

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By Tyler Cowen JUNE 13, 2014 Source Link Nikita Khrushchev and East German leaders with a Sputnik 3 replica in 1959. CreditBettmann/Co...

No, Obama Didn’t Lose Iraq

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By COLIN H. KAHL June 15, 2014 Source Link The surprising advances by jihadists in northern and western Iraq have produced at least on...

U.S. Military Can’t Fix This

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Ramzy Mardini is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council based in Amman, Jordan. JUNE 2014 Source Link     The bold Sunni militant...

UGLYGUERRILLA HACK OF U.S. UTILITY EXPOSES CYBER WAR THREAT; “PREPPING THE BATTLEFIELD”

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by Fortuna's Corner June 2014  Source Link UglyGuerilla Hack Of U.S. Utility Exposes Cyber War Threat; “Prepping The Battlefiel...

It's not just schools – Britain has let Islamists run riot

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Douglas Murray June 2014 http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9230681/save-our-children-from-the-islamists/ The Birmingham schools ...

The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute: A Preliminary Analysis

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Shikha Aggrawal, Research Associate, VIF In his seminal work, ‘The War Puzzle’ John Vaquez establishes that territorial issues constit...

SWJ Roundup

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by SWJ Editors   June 2014   http://smallwarsjournal.com/node/15817 USNI Daily - Real Clear Defense - Real Clear World - The ...

Breaking The Prison Of Our Own High-Tech Success By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR.

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June 2014  http://breakingdefense.com/2014/06/breaking-the-prison-of-our-own-tech-success/ Marines use off-the-shelf Samsung table...

From Afghan Sell-Off To Pacific Build-Up: The Strategy Of Logistics

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By  SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. June 2014  Source Link The Littoral Combat Ship FREEDOM pulls into Singapore, an increasingly importan...
16 June 2014

Taliban flush with cash, U.N. warns

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Praveen Swami June 2014  AP In this April 13, 2013 photo, Afghan farmers harvest raw opium on a poppy fiel...

BCIM Economic Corridor: Prospects and Issues

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Brig (Retd) Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Source Link Introduction One of the cornerstones of India’s strategy has been to devel...

A QUESTION OF PRIORITY - India must take care in giving smaller neighbours their due

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Harsh V. Pant http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140616/jsp/opinion/story_18511818.jsp#.U547AvmSzyQ The Indian prime minister, Nare...

Pakistani Air Force Airstrikes Reportedly Kill 100 Militants in Waziristan

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June 15, 2014 Airstrikes in NW Pakistan kill about 100 militants Pakistani men mourn over the lifeless body, bottom right, of a ...

Obama’s Iraq Mosul has fallen, and al Qaeda is on the march towards Baghdad

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BY  MAX BOOT JUN 2014 Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has long been hard for the central government to control because of its com...

'No Exit' for us: How Karachiites are Sartre's characters in real

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By Rafia Zakari The people of Karachi can see doors outisde their personal prisons, but none lead anywhere, or to any hope. —Photo b...

Fareed Zakaria: Who lost Iraq? The Iraqis did, with an assist from George W. Bush

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FAREED ZAKARIA June 2014 The battle between Islam's two major branches began centuries ago and is threatening Iraq's path ...

Iraq Is Vietnam 2.0 And U.S. Drones Won’t Solve The Problem

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Leslie H. Gelb June 2014 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/12/iraq-is-vietnam-2-0-and-u-s-drones-won-t-solve-the-problem...

F-35s, V-22s, And Samsung Tablets: Junior Marines Pioneer New Tech, Tactics

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By  SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. May 2014 http://breakingdefense.com/2014/05/f-35s-v-22s-and-samsung-tablets-junior-marines-pioneer-new-t...

Web of containment tightens on China

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By Richard Javad Heydarian  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/SEA-03-110614.html MANILA - The Philippines and Vietnam, con...