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Gates Predicts ‘Sustained’ Afghan Mission, (Washington Post)…Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press
The U.S. military will pour thousands of troops into Afghanistan by next summer and can expect to commit a sustained force for several more years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and his top military commander there said Thursday.
When the additions are complete, the number of [...]

North Korea Nuclear Talks Stall (New York Times)…Associated Press
Six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program stalled Wednesday after the North rejected a Chinese proposal outlining how monitors could verify its past atomic activities. North Korea was refusing to allow outside inspectors to take samples from its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon — a central method [...]

McCaffrey And Rumsfeld , New York Times, December 3, 2008 , Pg. 26

To the Editor:
Re “One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex” (front page, Nov. 30):Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey makes much of his opposition to former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Whatever General McCaffrey or other unnamed individuals may believe, though, I am unaware of any decision to [...]

POST: Transformation Leadership. Aditya Birla Group, India’s First Global Corporation
One of the best descriptions of transformational leadership has been penned by Prof. Bernard Bass, a renowned exponent of the idea. He says succinctly,
“Leaders are truly transformational when they increase awareness of what is right, good, important and beautiful, when they help to elevate followers’ needs [...]

North Korea Threatens To Snip Ties With South (New York Times)…Choe Sang-Hun, Nov 24, 2008.
In a reversal of recent progress toward reconciliation on the divided Korean Peninsula, North Korea said Monday it would ban South Korean tourists from the ancient city of Kaesong and “selectively expel” South Koreans working in a joint industrial complex there [...]

Report Sees Nuclear Arms, Scarce Resources As Seeds Of Global Instability, (Washington Post)…Peter Finn and Walter Pincus, Nov 21, 2008.
The drive for dwindling resources, including energy and water, combined with the spread of nuclear weapons technology could make large swaths of the globe ripe for regional conflicts, some of them potentially devastating, according to a [...]

CIA Chief: Iraq Not Main Front, (Washington Post)…Walter Pincus, Nov 14, 2008.CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday that al-Qaeda remains the single greatest threat to the United States but that Iraq is no longer the central front in the broader war on terrorism.
C.I.A. Chief Says Qaeda Is Extending Its Reach, (New York Times)…Mark Mazzetti, [...]

POST: Economics Drive Political Change, November 05, 2008
On the day after elections in America, it seems like a good time to talk about democracy elsewhere. Politicians like to talk about politics and the ideologies behind their particular brand of politics. In the West, we are fond of democracy — especially representational democracy — and [...]

Play the news / Will Israel strike Iran’s nuclear sites?, By Haaretz.com Staff.
In June, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton predicted that Israel would strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities before the end of George W. Bush’s term in 2009.
Iran’s uranium enrichment - considered a sure sign of progress toward nuclear weapons - [...]

Next President’s Iraq War, (Washington Times)…Austin Bay, Oct 17, 2008. p25.
In a month, Iraq will be the next president’s war. From the American perspective, the next president’s phase of the Iraq war will be twofold. First off, it will be a proxy war with Iran’s tyrannical mullahs. The second “fold” will be even more strategically [...]