The Economist

The grim tactical lessons Western armies are taking from Gaza’s war

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The Diplomat

Lessons From How Western Intelligence Tracked Imperial Japan’s Aviation Technology

In a recent trio of posts at the blog From Balloons to Drones, Justin Pyke (a Canadian scholar working on military and intelligence history) tracked how Western intelligence evaluated Japanese ...
The Guardian

The bombing of Mali highlights all the lessons of western intervention

The west African nation becomes the eighth country in the last four years alone where Muslims are killed by the west As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key ...
The Conversation

Five years of war in Syria: five lessons Western leaders haven’t learned

Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Director of Accelerated Degree Programs, Center for Public Policy and Adminstration; and Director, Middle Eastern Studies, UMass Amherst The ink had barely dried ...
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Five years of war in Syria: Five lessons Western leaders haven’t learned

The ink had barely dried on the Munich ceasefire agreement announced on February 11 by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry when only a few days later Syrians and others were casting doubt that it could ...