Last Friday, Charli Carpenter announced that Jon Western, Five College Associate Professor at Mount Holyoake College, has joined the blogging team at Duck of Minerva. Western featured prominently in Samantha Power’s Pulitzer-winning book A Problem From Hell: America in the Age of Genocide; she describes how he, and others like him, resigned in protest from the US State Department in the mid-1990s. Western’s first post at DoM, not to mention his work on humanitarian intervention, suggest that the blogosphere and the discussion on Afghanistan have just been elevated. One worth watching.
Tag: intervention
Omnivore 21/09/09
Panther’s Claw Troops Back in UK, BBC News
Roboboat? C.J. Chivers, At War
McChrystal Calls For More Troops to Avoid Afghan Failure, Eric Schmitt and Tom Shanker, New York Times
Afghanistan Statebuilding, Jon Western, Duck of Minerva
Assess the Debate For Yourself, Bernard Finel, BernardFinel.com
They Will Mobilize If We Leave… And If We Stay, Patrick Porter, Kings of War
Terror Suspect Had Bomb Guide, David Johnston and William K. Rashbaum, New York Times
Third Night of Trouble in Armagh, BBC News
Police Clamp Down Amid Fears of Major Terror Attack, Henry MacDonald, The Guardian
Omnivore 18/09/09
Pick Your Policymaking Metaphor, Dan Drezner, Foreign Policy
Marine Generals to Cheney: Knock It Off, Tom Ricks, Foreign Policy
Afghanistan Vs. Iraq Media Coverage, Katherine Tiedemann, Af-Pak Channel
3B Or Not 3B, Steve Coll, Af-Pak Channel
Tragic Fate Of Afghan Bomb Survivor, Mustafa Saber, IWPR/Afghan Recovery Report
Balkh Businessmen In Panic Over Abductions, Ahmed Kawoosh, IWPR/Afghan Recovery Report
Time Running Out For NATO In Afghanistan: British General, Richard Norton-Taylor & David Batty, The Guardian
From the Bridge: Flying Across the Atlantic, Admiral James G. Stavridis, Allied Command Operations Blog
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