Posted in Afghanistan, Demography, Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Military, Yemen on Nov 18th, 2008 Comments Off on Pop quiz!
From MESH Admin Some of the many interactive geography quizzes on the web ask visitors to identify the countries and capitals of the Middle East. We assume MESH readers have no problem there, so we’ve collected links to more challenging quizzes. There’s no end to learning.
Posted in Iraq, Philip Carl Salzman on Oct 7th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Philip Carl Salzman Peter W. Galbraith, in “Is This a ‘Victory’?” (in the current issue of The New York Review of Books), frets that there is no apparent way to “transform Iraq’s ruling theocrats into democrats, diminish Iran’s vast influence in Baghdad, or reconcile Kurds and Sunnis to Iraq’s new order.” It is apparent […]
Posted in Books, Iraq, Military on Aug 24th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Baghdad at Sunrise’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Peter R. Mansoor is the General Raymond Mason Chair of Military History, Ohio State University, and a recently retired U.S. Army colonel. His new book is Baghdad at […]
Posted in Counterinsurgency, Iraq, Qaeda on Aug 1st, 2008 Comments Off on Foreign fighters in Iraq
From Assaf Moghadam The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point just released a study on the foreign fighters streaming into Iraq. The new study, Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road in and Out of Iraq, edited by my colleague Brian Fishman, expands on an analysis of Al Qaeda in Iraq’s personnel records conducted by […]
Posted in Books, Iraq, Military on Jul 29th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Steven Metz is chairman of the Regional Strategy and Planning Department and research professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. His […]
Posted in Arab Gulf, Books, Geopolitics, Iran, Iraq on Jun 23rd, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Marc J. O’Reilly is assistant professor of political science at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. His new book is Unexceptional: America’s Empire in the Persian Gulf, 1941-2007.
Posted in Books, Counterinsurgency, Iraq, United Kingdom on May 8th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Spies in Arabia’
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Priya Satia is assistant professor of modern British history at Stanford University. Her new book is Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s […]
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