July, 2006

From Rhetoric to Practice

by Anthony H. Cordesman

July 29th, 2006

Like Ed Luttwak, I see a great many grays and uncertainties, not blacks and whites. I’ve never been much for blogging, and this exercise has simply persuaded that it leads to forms of “soapboxing” that fail to add much insight.
There are, however, a few additional points that I feel need to be considered if anyone [...]

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Iran’s Self-Destabilization

by Edward N. Luttwak

July 28th, 2006

Ted Carpenter writes
to deliberately destabilize the Iranian state by encouraging Baluch, Kurdish, Azeri and other secessionist movements strikes me as even more reckless. Yes, we hate the current government in Tehran (for very good reasons), but we must be careful not to create another cauldron of chaos in the Persian Gulf region .

What is [...]

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