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Gregory Kulacki and I are giving a talk about the Chinese ASAT test at the Carnegie Endowment. Short version: There is no message for us. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace invites you to attend A Different View of China’s…
If you aren’t reading the comments on my last few Syria posts, you are missing some great contributions by readers including: John Hogan has used satellite images to pin down the construction date of the “Box-on-the-Euphrates” to between 26 May…
Is the Box-on-the-Euphrates in a remote place? Details like that might seem insignificant, but they are not. Often, it seems to me, intelligence judgments are supported by informal bits of “color” or what you might call the gouge — circumstantial…
This is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, better known as Curveball, getting down at an Iraqi wedding in 1993. The 60 Minutes segment tonight, if you saw it after the Patriots-Colts game, was a fine introduction to Curveball and that damned wall.…
Ambassador Rocca is getting lambasted for stating that US nuclear forces are not on hair trigger alert: It is popular to call for removing nuclear weapons from “hair-trigger alert.” Frankly, in order to take action to comply with this request,…
