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Thanks to a fortuitous retweet, I found out that Andrew Bacevich, veteran, professor, and author of several books on American foreign policy, will be doing a reading/discussion at a bookstore a couple blocks from my apartment tonight. I’m going to try to make it, so does anyone have anything they would like asked? Or any [...]

At the risk of tackling a topic I’ve talked about before (a couple times), something stuck out to me in the Gates-a-palooza of the last few days. From Fareed Zakaria’s Op-Ed in WaPo: Gates likes to point out that there are more musicians in U.S. military marching bands than members of the Foreign Service. In [...]

Rarely has it been so eloquently put: I have created a heterosexual dating history to recite to fellow cadets when they inquire. I have endured unwanted approaches by male cadets for fear of being accused as a lesbian by rejecting or reporting these events. I have been coerced into ignoring derogatory comments towards homosexuals for [...]

Best news from Gates’ presser yesterday, as far as I’m concerned: Q     You’re not exactly working yourself out of a job by coming up with all of these initiatives.  Have you made a decision about how long you’re going to stay?  Because I think publicly you’re still only committed to the end of this year. [...]

(Karaka beat me to this, but I still want to expand on it.) Today the Pentagon announced that it was eliminating the Joint Forces Command, based in Norfolk. This is billed as a cost-saving measure. It certainly won’t be the last, as Gates looks to trim the massive defense budget. Gates gave a press briefing [...]

I very much regret the nasty things I said about Fareed Zakaria in college when I had to read his book From Wealth to Power in a my capstone class. Not only does he host the most informative show on television this side of Frontline, he does things like this: Five years ago, the ADL [...]

A story that deserves a bit more attention than it gets is the ongoing plight of Kyrgyzstan. Back in April, protests led to a revolution that overthrew the President, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, himself the product of the “Tulip Revolution” in 2005. Opposition leader and interim President Roza Otunbayeva had barely gotten settled when ethnically fueled riots [...]

Jonathan Bernstein points out that conservatives aren’t the only ones making a big deal out of trivial “issues.” Specifically, he points to MoveOn.org, and their campaign to keep Fox from getting Helen Thomas’ seat in the White House briefing room. He’ s 100% right in that this is a complete non-issue, and MoveOn shouldn’t be [...]

I wanted to agree with and push back a bit against mikey’s excellent post on Wikileaks. First, I wonder how extensive the questions about Wikileaks credibility as an organization would have been when it came to light that the Wikileaks staff themselves were responsible for withholding information within the leaked documents. I’ll offer a very [...]

Hello, everyone! I’m yet another guestblogger here while Spencer vacations (or something) in Afghanistan. My name is Matt Lewis, a name which I happen to share with a conservative blogger. Like Jenn, I yelled “pick me! Pick me!” in the comments, and Spencer was kind enough to give me an opportunity to write here. Normally [...]