Wednesday, August 11, 2010

More from Jim Dao, NY Times about Afghanistan

Jim Dao of the NY Times is following a combat unit on their entire deployment to Afghanistan from pre-deployment through the getting back home.  Here's the latest installment.

There's some funny stuff about all the things that go wrong with a  new unit on its first mission.  It's front-page of the print edition today for those who read the old fashioned way.

Geography, War, and Power: Ian Morris’s Grand Argument

  Across Why the West Rules, for Now, War! What Is It Good For? , and Geography Is Destiny , historian Ian Morris advances one of the most...