Avatar photoSSCI Iraq reports

Two of them are out. There’s one comparing the IC’s prewar assessments with the postwar results on the ground and another about the IC’s use of INC-provided information.

Avatar photoBest Option in a Bad Situation

Calling it “the best option in a bad situation,” Geoff Forden and John Thomson have another paper out recommending a multinational nuclear arrangement to resolve the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program: Iran would lease all its enrichment-related equipment and facilities to the partnership and would undertake not to enrich and reprocess except through the partnership. …

Avatar photoUNMOVIC On Hussein's WMD Motives

UNMOVIC released a report a while back describing the commission’s lessons-learned from its work in Iraq. The whole thing is pretty interesting…I would just highlight its explanation for Iraq’s slack cooperation with the inspectors: It would appear that the following factors contributed to Iraq’s decision not to reveal such information to the United Nations: (a) …

Avatar photoRandom Wonk Shout Out

An idiosyncratic endeavor such as this blog can hardly be expected to produce predictable links or references. Yet even with a healthy expectation of surprise, every now and again, I am shocked to see a very random reference to my blog. Case in point: The Wikipedia entry for Wham-O “Super Ball” references my post about …