The White House has announced its intention to nominate John Rood as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation. (The Arizona Republic has a full writeup.) Of course, you may remember Rood from his starring turn in Dafna Linzer’s “Brady Bunch NSC” article: Much of Rood’s job includes dealing with Cold War leftovers …
Another Caucasian, Gary
by | 2006-07-18 | 15 Comments
Okay folks, we are back. If I could trouble you, oh friends of wonk, please pass the word around. Send e-mails, bring it up over white russians, what-have-you. Friend of Wonk Allen Thomson wins a prize for big catch—the Missile Defense Agency is planning to install a forward-based X-band Radar in the Caucasus: “The mobile/transportable …
Wonk Outage
by | 2006-07-16 | 1 Comment
Greg here – I apologize to everyone for the extended outage. We had a series of badly timed events which all occurred about six hours before I sailed away to Bermuda for seven unplugged days. We’re back online now and streaming out of a new data center … so yeah … thanks for your patience …
Eloise at the Security Council
by | 2006-07-06 | 3 Comments
Friend of Wonk Jacqueline Shire sends this dispatch from the UN Security Council as the members-states consider what to do about North Korea: Eloise at the Security Council I’ve often wished that Kay Thompson were alive so that she and Hilary Knight could add an “Eloise at the United Nations” book to their collection of …
