Greetings readers. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been a bit slower posting — and I just wanted to express my deep thanks to all of you to allow me the space to make some shifts in the way my professional life is organized.
As far as overblown fears of the Chinese military are concerned, the impending launch of China’s first aircraft carrier is just another sign of the Beijing’s growing strength and assertiveness.
This is a guest post by Caroline Esser, a research associate with the New America Foundation’s Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program. The newest way to sell Israel to Americans: LGBT rights.
Today, I received alerts that three friends had taken new positions. National Security Network Deputy Director Joel Rubin is no longer with the National Security Network, a great organization that is smartening Dems up on foreign policy.
This is a guest post by Jonathan Guyer, a program associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force and the official cartoonist of The Washington Note. He also is assistant editor for The Middle East Channel at FP. He blogs at Mideast by Midwest.
This morning in Zurich, I am chairing the “Terrorism and Counterterrorism” panel of the International Security Forum 2011 which is organized in partnership with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
It may come as a relief to President Obama that France has decided to increase the pace of operations in Libya by deploying attack helicopters. Britain, on the other hand, seems to still be on the fence. The role of airpower in this conflict has been a critical one.
For those of you following President Obama’s trip to Ireland, the UK, France, and Poland, here is the opener of a piece I just wrote for the BBC on the need for US-UK Relations to get an update and reset.
Theodore Roosevelt’s words on Presidents and the critical importance of avoiding ‘yes men’ and getting unvarnished counsel and critique: The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants.
(Chester the Turtle, lives in Chester River, Chestertown; photo credit: Andrew Oros; click image for larger version) I love cities — but love nature too, and this very big Maryland snapping turtle crawled up into my back yard recently, dug itself a big hole for the next generation of turtles in our river and creek,…
