You Might Have Missed: Ukraine, Rep. Mike Rogers and Drones
Jeanne Whalen and Alan Cullison, “Ukraine Battles to Rebuild a Depleted Military,” Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2014.In recent weeks Mr. Yarema has turned to Washington and NATO for help, but with...
View ArticleThe CIA and the Moral Sunk Costs of the Torture Program
This morning, The Washington Post has a blockbuster story about that 6,300-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's torture program. The part that will likely get the most attention is...
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Afghanistan’s Election: The Real Results
An Afghan woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Mazar-i- sharif April 5, 2014. REUTERS/Zohra BensemraFollowing Afghanistan’s presidential election Saturday, ballots from villages of the Hindu...
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Amid Europe’s Crisis, Danger Signs from Egypt
A man sits next to a poster of presidential candidate and former Egyptian army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in central Cairo, April 8, 2014. REUTERS/Asmaa WaguihWe know what happens when...
View ArticleReport: US Drone Casualty Estimates Are Likely Too Low
Defense analyst Lawrence Lewis has authored an unclassified report critically analyzing the metrics used to estimate civilian casualties from drone strikes.* Lewis is an analyst and field...
View ArticleThe Senate Torture Report and Investigative Journalism
Today, Sen. Diane Feinstein and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the chair and former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), published an op-ed in the Washington Post, “Why the Senate Report...
View ArticleDon't Let the Bush Administration Off the Hook For Torture
There's a new report out today from McClatchey on the CIA's torture program based on that Intelligence Committee report. They got a closer look at it than journalists have before, so there are some...
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Top of the Morning: Terror in Abuja
Top stories from DAWNS DigestScores Killed in Abuja Bus station bombing…At least 71 people are dead after a blast struck a busy bus station in Nigeria’s capital. This is the worst attack in Abuja since...
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Top of the Morning: Drone Strikes in Yemen Target Al Qaeda
Top stories from DAWNS Digest“Yemeni forces, reportedly backed by U.S. drone strikes, hit al-Qaida militants for a second straight day Monday in what Yemen officials said was an assault on a major base...
View ArticleYou Might Have Missed: Kissinger, China’s Navy, and Counterinsurgency Wars
“The Secretary’s Analytical Staff Meeting on Non-Proliferation,” U.S. Department of State, August 2, 1974.SECRETARY KISSINGER: I just have a reluctance to have the United States go charging around the...
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