Somehow we haven’t quite come up with the perfect literary device to meld James Clapper into the Boot Camp Clik, but by the time he becomes the next Director of National Intelligence, we’ll have figured it out. Get used to this video. I’ll be posting it a lot.

This Mosharraf Zaidi piece will make you smarter. What’s up with the Pakistani bureaucracy? The problem with Pakistani government today is that it doesn’t enjoy the competent stability it once used to through the bureaucracy. Today’s Pakistan’s bureaucracy, while made up of individually brilliant officers, is a collection of inward-looking dinosaurs that cannot see beyond [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 642-10 July 20, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Jesse R. Tilton, 23, of Decatur, Ill., died July 16 at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, of wounds sustained July 13 when insurgents attacked [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 641-10 July 20, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Anibal Santiago, 37, of Belvidere, Ill., died July 18 in Bagram, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained July 17 in a non-combat related incident in Kwowst, Afghanistan. He [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 640-10 July 20, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. 1st Lt. Robert N. Bennedsen, 25, of Vashon, Wash., died July 18 at Qalat, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive [...]

The big Danger Room post today? James Clapper’s confirmation hearings to become the next director of national intelligence. Owing to the Post series and all the focus around it, I opted to focus on contractors. Clapper drew some distinctions between the different sorts of intel functions contracted out and pledged to work with the Senate [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 639-10 July 20, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Gunnery Sgt. Christopher L. Eastman, 28, of Moose Pass, Ark.  died July 18 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 7th [...]

There are consequences to casting the Afghanistan war as a mission to stabilize Afghanistan, with the necessarily derivative objective of shoring up the Afghanistan government. As Matthew Yglesias points out, one of them is that you shouldn’t undercut the Afghan president when he says that he wants Afghan forces in full control of the country’s [...]

I’ll be working tonight to hit a Wired deadline, but if you’re in D.C., you should come out at 7 p.m. to the National Press Club, where the Miami Herald‘s Carol Rosenberg and others will discuss covering Guantanamo Bay and the ground rules under which reporters operate.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 638-10 July 20, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Justin B. Allen, 23, of Coal Grove, Ohio, died July 18 in Zhari, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when he was shot by insurgents while conducting combat [...]