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** The folly of PR-driven strategy: Ukraine’s doomed 155th Brigade ([link removed])
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By Mike Fredenburg on Feb 10, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Ukraine has undertaken a number of optics-driven decisions and initiatives that have ended up doing real damage to its military and its ability to defend territory. A primary example ([link removed]) is the standing up ([link removed](military)) of the brand-new 155th Brigade — its short life and its subsequent demise.
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** American security contractors walking thin line in Gaza ([link removed])
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By Stavroula Pabst on Feb 07, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image The notion of sending private contractors to Gaza has been floated numerous times, to mixed-to-poor reviews. Last year, National Security expert Peter Singer dismissed the cause as “not even half baked. ([link removed]) ” More recently, a retired military official told RS it was a “bad, bad idea ([link removed]) .” Even Washington Post columnist David Ignatius described the concept as “potentially controversial ([link removed]) .”
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** Trump's Gaza vision would be US counterinsurgency failure 2025 ([link removed])
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By Steve Deal on Feb 06, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image In his 1971 classic ([link removed]) “Every War Must End,” Fred Charles Iklé painfully reminded every would-be commander and statesman of the wrenching tragedies that result from confusing military means with political ends.
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** Trump's Gaza plan is not America First ([link removed])
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By Paul R. Pillar on Feb 06, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image President Trump’s most recent pronouncement ([link removed]) about the Gaza Strip and the people who live there brings to mind Abraham Lincoln's definition ([link removed]) of a hypocrite as a man who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy on grounds that he is an orphan.
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** If true, Trump move to withdraw US military from Syria is the right one ([link removed])
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By Adam Weinstein on Feb 05, 2025 02:14 pm
Featured Image Statements from unnamed DoD officials ([link removed]) suggest that President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw U.S. troops from Northeast Syria.
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** North Korean soldiers in Russia: Were they ever there? ([link removed])
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By Ted Snider on Feb 05, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image We still don’t know for sure if there are North Korean troops fighting in Russia against Ukrainian forces. Perhaps we never will. But Ukraine’s case for their presence was not made stronger by the sudden announcement ([link removed]) on January 30 that they were gone.
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