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  13 May SWJ News, Op-Ed, Events & Blog Roundup

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  IRAQ Sadr City Cease-fire Signed After Weeks of Fighting - Associated Press Shi'ite Gunmen in Baghdad Ignore Truce - Reuters Clashes in Sadr City Kill 11 - Associated Press Iran Hard-liners Come Out Against Iraqi-US Deal - Associated Press Missile Is Fired at Copter Over Baghdad - Farrell and Gordon, New York Times More Gains in Iraq - New York Post editorial Remember Basra? - Peter Wehner, National Review opinion Rethinking the Iraq Critics - Michael Barone, Washington Times opinion Maliki Stands Firm - Max Boot, Contentions Iraqi Troops Subdue Basra - Noah Shachtman, Danger Room Cracking Sadr City - Phillip Carter, Intel Dump Enforcing the Rule of Law - Dr. iRack, Abu Muqawama In Pictures: Patrolling the Shorja Market - Bill Ardolino, The Long War Journal The General in His Labyrinth - Max Boot, Washington Post book review Sanchez: An Orthodox Officer - Phillip Carter, Intel Dump Iraq Status Report - Iraq Status Report The Daily Show - Douglas Feith Uncut Part 1 The Daily Show - Douglas Feith Uncut Part 2 AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN TRIBAL AREAS 12 Militants Killed in Southern Afghanistan - Associated Press Senior Afghan Officials Suspended - BBC News Taleban Dead Returned to Pakistan - BBC News A Counterinsurgency Grows in Khost - Ann Marlowe, Weekly Standard opinion Pakistani Taliban, Iraqi al Qaeda Killed - Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal Taliban Spring Offensive: Pointless Bickering - Herschel Smith, The Captain's Journal Senior Afghan Officials Sacked - Matt Dupee, The Long War Journal IRAN Smuggling to Iran Rife in Dangerous Gulf Waters - Reuters Iran Says to Sue US and Britain Over Mosque Blast - Reuters From the Mouths of Mullahs - Jules Crittenden, Forward Movement THE LONG WAR The 'Long War' Fallacy - Andrew Bacevich, Los Angeles Times opinion Why We Need Nukes and Gitmo - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times opinion Shielding Official Leakers - Frank Gaffney Jr., Washington Times opinion Counterfeiting: A Matter of National Security - Jay Fraser, Threats Watch Owning ‘the Means of Communication’ - Will Hartley, Insurgency Research Group Regulating Complex Terrain in COIN - Michael Innes, Complex Terrain Laboratory Blood Debts and Exotic Others - Patrick Porter, Kings of War Prisons in Counterinsurgency - Herschel Smith, The Captain's Journal Media Power and Terrorists - Brigitte Nacos, Complex Terrain Laboratory US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE “Burying the Ghosts of Vietnam” - Bob Cassidy, Small Wars Journal The Ghosts of Vietnam - Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club More Armor for MRAPs - Noah Shachtman, Danger Room Vietnam Ghosts - Phillip Carter, Intel Dump Gates in Touch with the Future, But... - Tom Barnett, Thomas PM Barnett So Near Yet So Far - Richard Fernandez, The Belmont Club Force Structure for Small Wars - Andrew Pavord, Small Wars Journal Contracting Out Iraqi Army Advising - Peter Singer, The Brookings Institution Top US Commando Says Strain of War Limits Forces - Associated Press Personal Responsibility - Phillip Carter, Intel Dump AFRICA Sudan Briefly Arrests Islamist Leader - Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times Sudan: Islamist Leader Arrested - Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post Bin Laden Host Held After Raid on Khartoum - Rob Crilly, London Times Sudan Briefly Detains Islamist for Alleged Rebel Links - Associated Press Darfur Rebel Leader Vows Attrition War - Associated Press Sudanese Troops Hunt for Rebels in Khartoum - Reuters Official: Chad Closes Border with Sudan - Associated Press Zimbabwe Rejects Western Poll Observers - Reuters Kenya: Back to the Land, Warily - Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post US Revives Reward Plan for Rwanda Suspects - Reuters AMERICAS Venezuela Takes Over Steel Firm - BBC News Roots of Haiti's Food Crisis Run Deep - Carol Williams, Los Angeles Times Haiti Lawmakers Reject PM Nominee - Associated Press Bolivia's Morales Approves August Recall Vote - Associated Press 6 Charged in Shooting of Officer in Mexico - James McKinley, New York Times Mexico Police say Drug Cartel Killed No. 2 Cop - Associated Press Mexican Rebels Reject Direct Talks with Government - Reuters US Role in Mexico Assassination - Mary O'Grady, Wall Street Journal opinion Could Mexico’s Rot Spread North? - Westhawk, Westhawk ASIA PACIFIC Quake Kills Thousands in W. China - Hooker and Yardley, New York Times Quake in China Kills Thousands - Jill Drew, Washington Post Death Toll in China Put at 10,000 - Magnier and Demick, Los Angeles Times At Least 10,000 Dead in China - Jane Macartney, London Times Deadly quake strikes China - Chris O'Brien, Washington Times China: 'Tens of Thousands' Dead - Spencer and Moore, London Daily Telegraph ‘No Hope’ for Children Buried in Earthquake - Edward Wong, New York Times Death Toll Rises in China Quake - BBC News UN Leader Tells Burma to Hurry on Aid - Hoge and Mydans New York Times American Admiral Takes Plea To Burma - Kazmin and Lynch, Washington Post Burma Accused of 'Crime' Against Its People - Leo Lewis, London Times UN Frustrated at Burma Response - BBC News Burma Crisis: UN Must Step Up - London Daily Telegraph editorial The United Nations Can Save Burma - Daadler and Stares, Boston Globe opinion Burma: Case for Intervention - David Aaronovitch, London Times opinion Gunboat Diplomacy for Burma? - James Kirchick, Contentions Ghost of Macarthur Lands in Burma - Galrahn, Information Dissemination Dalai Lama Expects Talks to Resume - Somini Sengupta, New York Times Who's Afraid of Big Bad China? Why? - Chris Patten, London Times opinion The Challenge From China - Mark Helprin, Wall Street Journal opinion The Right Path With N. Korea - Hecker and Perry, Washington Post opinion Hanoi on Trial - Wall Street Journal editorial EUROPE Putin Chooses Cabinet, Retains Key Officials - Peter Finn, Washington Post Putin in Control as Russia Names Cabinet - Reuters Georgia in Peril - Washington Times editorial Serbia Braces for Electoral Showdown - Dan Bilefsky, New York Times Serbia Begins Postelection Talks - Associated Press Serbia in Coalition Scramble After Ambivalent Vote - Reuters Good Morning Serbia - London Times editorial Victory in Serbia - Max Boot, Contentions MIDDLE EAST In Lebanon, a Call for US Action - Erdbrink and Wright, Washington Post Druze Plead for US Help in Lebanon - Sara Carter, Washington Times Army Says It Will Use Force to Quell Fighting - Robert Worth, New York Times Bush Offers Help for Lebanon Army - BBC News Fighting in Tripoli, Beirut Calm - Associated Press Lebanese Army Says will Intervene from Tuesday - Reuters From Lebanon to Hezbollahstan - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal opinion What’s Wrong in Lebanon - Claudia Rosett, National Review opinion Civil War in the Video Age - Abu Muqawama, Abu Muqawama Jordan Charges Man in Honor Killing of Sister - Associated Press Bush's Inauspicious Visit - Washington Post editorial SOUTH ASIA Pakistani Party Quits Cabinet Over Justices - Pamela Constable, Washington Post Sharif’s Party Leaves Cabinet in Pakistan - Jane Perlez, New York Times Pakistan Plunges into Fresh Political Crisis - Zahid Hussain, London Times Pakistan Government Set to Split - BBC News Fighting 'Continues' in Kashmir - BBC News Nine Dead in Indian Rebel Attack - BBC News WORLD Spread of Nuclear Capability Is Feared - Joby Warrick, Washington Post While the IAEA and Security Council Dither... - Westhawk, Westhawk RECOMMENDED READING COIN Book Club # 9 - Kip, Abu Muqawama Iraq Status Report - Iraq Status Report UK CT & COIN Features - Will Hartley, Insurgency Research Group EVENTS OF INTEREST 13 May 2008 - After the Iraqi Offensive: An Address by Colonel H. R. McMaster (Public Event). Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute. The government of Iraq has made great strides both militarily and politically over the past year and a half. After dramatically reducing al Qaeda in Iraq’s operational capability, the Iraqi Security Forces have successfully undertaken operations to reclaim segments of Basra and Sadr City from Shiite extremist elements. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al Maliki has won increasing support from the major Sunni, Kurdish, and Shiite blocs due to his leadership in this offensive. Moreover, in a sign of bottom-up reconciliation, nearly 90 percent of Sunnis polled declared their intention to participate in the October provincial elections. How will Iraqi political dynamics evolve as operations against Shiite extremists continue? How will the security situation in Iraq evolve as the July drawdown in U.S. forces approaches? How have recent events in Iraq influenced our understanding of nation-building strategy? Having recently returned from working with Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus in Iraq, Colonel H. R. McMaster will address these and other questions at AEI on May 13. Following his address, Michèle Flournoy of the Center for a New American Security and AEI’s Thomas Donnelly will join Colonel McMaster for a discussion of these issues. 15 May 2008 - Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power (Public Event). Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute. In Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power (AEI Press, May 2008), AEI scholars Thomas Donnelly and Frederick W. Kagan pose a series of urgent questions for policymakers: What is the strategic role of American ground forces? What missions will these forces undertake in the future? What is the nature of land warfare in the twenty-first century? What qualities are necessary to succeed on the battlefields of the Long War? What is the ideal size and configuration of the force--and how much will it cost? On Thursday, May 15, Donnelly, Kagan, and Kathleen Hicks of the Center for Strategic and International Studies will discuss these and other questions about the size, shape, and costs of the land forces the United States will require in the years ahead. 4-5 June 208 - 2008 Joint Symposium - Strategic Re-Assessment: From Long-Range Planning to Future Strategy and Forces (Public Event). Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and US Joint Forces Command. Fundamental to the development and implementation of a successful future defense posture is a foundation comprised of a well-reasoned assessment of the future security environment, a clear understanding of the “realm of the possible” for and limitations of military forces, and an understanding of the nation’s security objectives. Developing an appropriate assessment of the future security environment is not something done in a vacuum as it is impossible to fully separate purely military or national security issues from other elements of the national and global environment. This is particularly true for the United States. Technical innovation and adaptation, the rise and decline of other actors on the international stage, domestic politics, globalization and its effects on trade, migration, communications, and the power of nonstate actors all, bear heavily on any security assessment. There is no shortage of assessments of the future security environment. In the last decade, National Defense University itself has produced several, most recently, Strategic Challenges – America’s Global Security Agenda. The objectives of this symposium are to examine some of these strategic assessments, to review our success at incorporating their key elements into strategic and operational plans, and to propose ways to institutionalize best practices into the process for future force development and joint force planning. We will explore these issues through a series of panel discussions and keynote addresses. Featured speakers will include military officers, government officials, and experts from research institutes. 17-19 June 208 - 3rd Annual North American Security Colloquium: Wars Without Borders (Public Event). Kingston, Ontario. Sponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, Queen's Centre for International Relations, and Defence Management Studies at Queen's University, and the Canadian 'Forces' Land Doctrine and Training System. The conflicts today in Iraq and in Afghanistan are examples of what some leading scholars and many commanders have termed “continuous wars among the people.” This type of conflict is developing or occurring in other regions of the world, in Africa and in Latin America for example. In many of these situations traditional and legal borders no longer define or contain the conflict, nor do obvious sovereign entities control belligerents. International commitments to control these conflicts necessarily demand complex, multi-dimensional diplomatic, military, police, and humanitarian responses. What has been learned about such conflicts from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan may to some degree be transferable to conflicts in other regions. Assuming that the international community may well face future operations characterized by regional, borderless “wars among the people”, the centres at Queen’s University and their partners propose convening a distinguished group of approximately 200 experts from academic, military, governmental, and international institutions to examine how best to prepare commanders, military units and governments to plan for and conduct complex, multi-dimensional stability campaigns in this new environment. 16-18 September 2008 - The U.S. Army and the Interagency Process: A Historical Perspective (Public Event - Conference / Call for Papers). Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Sponsored by the U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute. The symposium will include a variety of guest speakers, panel sessions, and general discussions. This symposium will explore the partnership between the U.S. Army and government agencies in attaining national goals and objectives in peace and war within a historical context. Separate international topics may be presented. The symposium will also examine current issues, dilemmas, problems, trends, and practices associated with U.S. Army operations requiring close interagency cooperation.

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