UncategorizedHitler’s non-German collaboratorsSpiegel’s detailed and, to my mind, well crafted article about the role non-Germans played in the Holocaust is upsetting people in...
UncategorizedOmar Samad leaves Canada, after five years as Afghanistan’s ambassadorOmar Samad, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Canada, is leaving this week after almost five years in Canada to become his country’s...
UncategorizedIranian democrat beaten, on hunger strikeI’ve written about Iranian democratic activist Behrouz Javid Tehrani several times since meeting him in Tehran five years...
CanadaThe Macleans.ca Interview: Omar SamadAs Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Canada gets set to move to France, he reflects on the mission in Khandahar and his relationship with the Harper government
UncategorizedHow to beat an insurgency by killing fewer people (III)David Kilcullen, former counter-insurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq, argues that American drone attacks in Pakistan...
UncategorizedIsrael’s "Ultimate Mission" in bad propagandaOften, while reading the online version of the Jerusalem Post , I come across ads promoting something called the “Ultimate...
UncategorizedHow to lose a counter-insurgency: stop protecting the peopleFrom today’s National Post, about a ’ drawback’ of Canadian troops and the dismantling of an armed outpost in Taliban-controlled...
UncategorizedAll in: America’s gamble in IraqI’ve blogged previously about Thomas Ricks’ new book, The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in...