2009-02-01 02:55
In case you hadn't noticed. Might as well make it official. This is due to a number of factors, including family, tenure pressures, and generally being spread too thin. But the final straw w… Read More
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We are a junior political scientist and a soldier of misfortune who have been arguing since childhood about ethics and global security.
2008-12-30 06:13
Number of Israeli deaths due to rocket attacks from Gaza in the past eight years: 19.Number of Palestinian deaths due to retaliatory fire from Israel in the past 36 hours: 375.Hmm. Of course… Read More
2008-12-19 16:35
HT to BBC's "Day In Pictures":"If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side." Read More
2008-12-16 03:56
The New York Times has a long report on the drive for uranium in Niger, which is threatening to create a conflict between Tuareg nomads who live on but presumably do not own the land wherein… Read More
2008-12-02 02:06
Writing in the Salt Lake Tribune today, two arms consultants ask some pointed questions: For decades, nuclear weapons were thought to make us safer by deterring the first strike by another n… Read More
2008-12-01 06:02
President Bush is doing what a lame duck can: try to complete rule-making processes at federal agencies that would lock in conservative policies on labor, environmental and health standards:… Read More
2008-11-27 21:55
Salim Ahmed Hamdan has been returned to his native Yemen, ostensibly to serve the final months of the sentence he received from the military commission that convicted him of providing materi… Read More
2008-11-27 05:59
Pirates have captured a supertanker with a cargo worth $100 mil. Kenneth Anderson has an interesting appraisal of the legal dynamics of the situation at Opinio Juris. A minor, but interestin… Read More
2008-11-27 05:54
Radio Free Europe has a valuable case study on the politics behind counting war casualties. The article details the work of Mirsad Tokaca, a contro-versial Bosnian figure whose careful studi… Read More
2008-11-20 18:07
As I perused the web this morning I was delighted to come across a resource on the laws of war at the Society of Professional Journalists' website. In describing some of the historical antec… Read More
2008-11-14 16:55
Here is a perfectly dreadful story I missed last week in the heat of the US election: a 13-year Somali girl who was raped by three men was stoned to death for "adultery" in front of a crowd… Read More
2008-11-11 18:54
This week, Bosnia's top war crimes court convicted Mladen Blagojevic for inhumane treatment of prisoners, but acquitted three others accused of participating in the Srebrenica massacre for l… Read More
2008-11-11 05:53
So today we hear that "assassination fears surround Obama" but don't worry, because the Secret Service is on the job, and Obama even has a codename: "Renegade." Hmm. The Secret Service goes… Read More
2008-11-10 15:39
It seems that Obama has captured the Trekkie vote. A Google search turned up no similar group for McCain."If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every ti… Read More
2008-11-10 13:50
The Center for Constitutional Rights has initiated a campaign, “100 Days to Restore the Constitution.” Chief among its goals: "Ending Torture, Rendition, and Illegal Detention;… Read More
2008-11-07 03:33
So says President Hamid Karzai. A fine idea. Of course, the US isn't in the business of killing civilians directly; it only "accidentally" hits wedding parties and other civilian gatherings… Read More
2008-11-05 04:09
First of all, Americans elected their first African-American president tonight.Second, this election appears to be emblematic of a sea change in American political culture; and many argue th… Read More
2008-11-02 20:47
Foreign Policy reports sardonically on the DOD's research into cognitive enhancers for warfare in this article, entitled "This is Your Brain on War."Could pills one day replace bullets in an… Read More
2008-10-28 01:13
In another public trouncing of established international law, U.S. military helicoptors staged an attack yesterday 8 kilometers inside Syria. According to the Washington Post:"Sunday's attac… Read More
2008-10-27 02:57
Robert Kaiser’s WAPO discussion of Obama and McCain’s foreign policy similarities contains a grain of truth. Kaiser points out that both want to increase the size of the military… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
An earlier post by yours truly chided well-meaning but misinformed American (ah, but I repeat myself) parents who allowed their children to play violent video games as long as they followed… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I can't think of anything dumber than the sentencing of Muntadhar al-Zeidi to three years in Iraq prison for throwing a shoe at President Bush during an unannounced visit to the country. Not… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Despite the minor fact that the majority of the Geneva Conventions did not exist in World War II, a chubby 13-year-old has convinced his parents to allow him to play "Call of Duty" on the c… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Kudos to my distinguished colleague Diodotus for having largely shouldered the burden of running this humble discussion for the last several months.I further applaud the resolution to spend… Read More
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