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Murphy's Law: Swiss Air Defense Goes 24/7
Strategy Page· 4 days agoFebruary 7, 2021: As of 2021 the Swiss Air Force is to provide 24/7 availability of jet interceptors to deal with any emergency, like a commercial, or any other aircraft, entering Swiss airspace ...
Yuval Noah Harari on how to prevent a new age of imperialism
The Economist· 4 days agoThis law of history should be on the minds of world leaders in the run-up to the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland on June 15th. Whenever international rules become meaningless, countries ...
Biden’s Foreign-Policy Problem Is Incompetence
Foreign Policy Magazine· 3 days agoAs the New York Mets compiled a record of 40 wins and 120 losses during their comically inept inaugural season, manager Casey Stengel famously lamented:...
Yemen: More Talking, Less Fighting
Strategy Page· 6 days agoMay 12, 2023: Peace negotiations seemed promising earlier in the year but have stalled, mainly because the Shia rebels, the Yemen government and Saudi Arabia cannot agree on who should get what ...
Yemen: Dying for a Solution
Strategy Page· 3 days agoJune 27, 2023: Iranian influence on the Shia rebels is fading and many rebel factions call for some kind of peace deal and an end to a civil war that the rebels were losing. The war continues ...
Mali: The Good, The Bad And The Deadly
Strategy Page· 5 days agoJanuary 18, 2021: The five-month-old interim government has a new problem; the recent loss of Soumaila Cissé, the popular and long-time opposition politician favored to win the next presidential ...
Leadership: Updating Army Officer Training
Strategy Page· 4 days agoJuly 24, 2022: Since 2010 the U.S. Army has been trying to revamp army training, organization and equipment from ten years of actual COIN (Counter-Insurgency) combat to a vague future fighting ...