Paging through Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars, I should not have been surprised that the index lacks any entry for "intelligence." The excerpts that dribbled out earlier this week had made unavoidably clear that there was, in fact, no entry for intelligence in...
The steady increase in U.S. cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into the frontier areas of Pakistan – whether by drone missiles or attack helicopters – is causing a serious backlash from both the region's residents and Islamabad's government and military leadership....
“Better safe than sorry” is a popular English idiom that can be traced back to Irish novelist Samuel Lover's Rory O'More (1837). Essentially, it means that it is better to take precautionary actions rather than be sorry that you didn't if something bad happens. One...
Amid new calls for Washington to attack Iran's nuclear facilities if its diplomatic efforts at curbing Tehran's uranium-enrichment program fail, the United States Wednesday imposed unilateral sanctions against eight senior Iranian officials whom it accused of...
