Andrew Exum, the coindinista blogger– counterinsurgency for the uninitiate–relies heavily upon the Norwegian Thomas Hegghammer,…

Call it the Petraeus effect. Here is further evidence that someone changed the water in…

This story didn’t make it to the Martin Kramer blog, which contains reflections on "Harvard…

Steve Walt says that I was wrong in my characterization of the news that Harvard’s…

Jackson Diehl in Washington Post: Obama is poisonous, vindictive and ideological… Noah Pollak in Commentary…

The BBC puts U.S. corporate and public media to shame, violating taboos on Israel.  On…

This recent posting about Paul Berman’s alleged ‘persuasiveness’ prompted a painful memory — the time…

Jeet Heer jumps on Jennifer Rubin’s lamentable post at Commentary about the AIPAC’rs who compare…

At TPM, Justin Elliott has tracked David Schenker, of the Washington Institute for Near East…

A former member of John McCain’s braintrust, neocon RobertKagan is in the Washington Post to…