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		<title>An Imperfect War</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/an-imperfect-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorrism]]></category>

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Ever since the assassination of Bin Laden I have been pondering the war on terror. Some would say I was late to the game.  I was glad to see Bin Laden killed, but I stilled questioned the method. We invaded a sovereign nation without their permission and assassinated a target.  I am always troubled by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cabinet War</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/05/the-cabinet-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 16:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dance of the Furies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fighting the Great War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Neiberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War I]]></category>

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I just finished reading Dance of the Furies- Europe and the Outbreak of World War I by Michael Neiberg.  It is an excellent companion to another book he wrote about WWI:  Fighting the Great War.  Michael is a history professor with a focus on World War I,  and my nephew. His other books about World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A History of Flawed Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/04/a-history-of-flawed-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Kay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Known and Unknown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shah]]></category>

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Though the intelligence failures surrounding Iraq are now well known, recent history is abundant with examples of flawed intelligence that have affected key national security decisions and contingency planning.  They include, for example: the poor quality of the intelligence gathered on the ground in Viet Nam; the underestimates of the scale of the Soviet Union’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Rule of War</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/04/the-final-rule-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gideon Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How Wars End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viet Nam]]></category>

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Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, has written a book focusing on the conclusion and post military developments of America’s wars  from WWI though the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.  If How Wars End has a common theme is the need to carefully consider the consequences and costs of victory as a part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruthlessness and Patience</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/03/ruthlessness-and-patience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gemayel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Known and Unknown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>

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The Syrian dictatorship possessed in the extreme two qualities particularly dangerous in a military adversary- ruthlessness and patience.  Like all dictatorships, the regime had the advantage of not needing to cater to its domestic opinion.  It could do whatever it deemed expedient to achieve its goals.  The Syrians had been playing a diplomatic card game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The False Certainty of Anticipation</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/03/the-false-certainty-of-anticipation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Known and Unknown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predator]]></category>

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Earlier in the war we had received several reports of supposed sightings of both Mullah Omar and bin Laden, which all proved to be false.
At one point I watched a Predator video feed of a tall, lanky man wearing a turban and white robes and surrounded by what looked like an entourage of bodyguards.  Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Alan Gross</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/03/free-alan-gross/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Gross was sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban jail for the crime of trying to bring internet access to the Cuban people. The Wall Street Journal reported, &#8220;A 61-year-old contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Mr. Gross has been held since 2009. His crime was working on a democracy-promotion mission to bring Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Change</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/03/fighting-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iceland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Known and Unknown]]></category>

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When I learned, for example, that the Pentagon had been spending $225 million every year to maintain our forces in Iceland, I sent a memo to Powell recommending that we make a change.  I pointed out that our aircraft originally had been stationed in Iceland to track Soviet subs in the North Atlantic.  Now that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumsfeld’s View</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/03/5534/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/03/5534/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Condoleeza Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Rumsfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Known and Unknown]]></category>

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I have admired Rumsfeld. He seemed intelligently clear in his press briefings and was able to use humor appropriately.  Yet many in the military were scathingly critical of him and pushed for his resignation.  He was deemed to squelch criticism and dissent, and ignore basic principles of war in spite of warnings.  It was my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy is Secondary</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/02/democracy-is-secondary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/02/democracy-is-secondary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayatollah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mossadegh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mubarak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim Brotherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we try to predict what the outcome will be in Egypt we tend to compare it to the last similar conflict, which many think is Iran. But the mistake in Iran began in 1953 when Mohammad Mosaddegh, a democratically elected popular ruler was overthrown largely by our CIA and replaced with the unpopular Shah. [...]]]></description>
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