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21 August 2016

The Military’s Real Readiness Crisis; Petraeus & O’Hanlon Are Wrong By Justin Johnson

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http://breakingdefense.com/2016/08/the-militarys-real-readiness-crisis-odierno-petraeus-are-wrong/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=emai...
20 August 2016

Lessons Learned (Maybe) From the CIA Covert War in Tibet in the 1950s and 1960s

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Want to Build a Better Proxy in Syria? Lessons from Tibet Steve Ferenzi War on the Rocks,August 17, 2016 Will Washington abandon i...

Oil bonanza will end soon. What then?

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http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/oped/oil-bonanza-will-end-soon-what-then.html Thursday, 18 August 2016 | Uttam Gupta | i To stay...

Disquiet on the western front

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August 18, 2016 http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/happymon-jacob-on-indiapakistan-border-loc-security/article8999610  Happymon Jaco...

** How Gilgit was lost forever

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http:/www.asianage.com/columnists/how-gilgit-was-lost-forever-574 Aug 16, 2016 With Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching a massive ...

*** 'India's nuclear assets are very well protected'

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http://www.rediff.com/news/report/indias-nuclear-assets-are-very-well-protected/20160817.htm August 17, 2016   Also: India's break...

*** Is the ISIS Caliphate Collapsing?

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http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-isis-caliphate-collapsing-17338?page=show The Islamic State is losing on the battlefield and in...

** A Special Relationship for the UK After All

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Reality Check A daily explanation of what matters and what doesn't in the world of geopolitics. Aug. 18, 2016 By Jacob L. Shapir...

** Countering the Narrative: Understanding Terrorist’s Influence and Tactics, Analyzing Opportunities for Intervention, and Delegitimizing the Attraction to Extremism

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http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/countering-the-narrative-understanding-terrorist%E2%80%99s-influence-and-tactics-analyzing-opportun ...

Report: Contractors outnumber U.S. troops in

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http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/crs-report-afghanistan-contractors By: Leo Shane III, August 17, 2016 (Photo Credit: Senior Airma...

Phelps, The Gold Standard

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by Felix Richter, Statista.com -- this post authored by Martin Armstrong 31 year old Olympian Micheal Phelps has taken his incredible tally...

Calling Al Qaeda’s Bluff

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/opinion/calling-al-qaedas-bluff.html?ref=world Contributing Op-Ed Writer By HUSSEIN IBISH AUG. 17, ...

What’s Wrong With the Pentagon’s Body Counts of ISIS Casualties in Iraq and Syria?

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Reviewing the Pentagon’s ISIS Body Counts Micah Zenko Council on Foreign Relations August 16, 2016 Four months after President Oba...

What’s Wrong With the Pentagon’s Body Counts of ISIS Casualties in Iraq and Syria?

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Reviewing the Pentagon’s ISIS Body Counts Micah Zenko Council on Foreign Relations August 16, 2016 Four months after President Oba...

Why the Pentagon sees recapture of Syrian city as template for battling the Islamic State

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/recapture-of-syrian-city-a-template-for-coming-us-battles-against-islamic-state/2...

Russia Is Winning the War Before the War

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August 17, 2016 http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/201608/17/russia_is_winning_the_war_before_the_war_109715.html By James D. Durs...

American Conservatism and Russia

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Aug. 17, 2016 By George Friedman Once staunchly anti-Soviet, some conservatives are embracing Putin’s Russia. Until the fall of th...

What Exactly Is Going On In Ukraine?

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http://www.realclearworld.com/2016/08/12/what_exactly_is_going_on_in_ukraine_177854.html?utm_source=rcp-today&utm_medium=email&utm...

‘Shadow Brokers’ Leak Raises Alarming Question: Was the N.S.A. Hacked?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/us/shadow-brokers-leak-raises-alarming-question-was-the-nsa-hacked.html?ribbon-ad-idx=9&rref=homep...

Nation-States in the Digital World

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http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2016/08/13/nation-states_in_the_digital_world_111989.html?utm_source=rcp-today&utm_medium=email...