This piece describes the Russian war plan for Syria, even though author Jamie Dettmer is wrong about fortunes being reversed. The overall strategy — to crush the more moderate armed factions in the opposition, leaving the extremists — is straight out of the Chechnya playbook, say military analysts. So too are the scorched-earth indiscriminate tactics…
Arms reduction works in Utopia, not here on Earth
January 18, 2016
Every now and then, I read something about how this or that nation is the world’s biggest importer or exporter of arms. So what? Groups that track arms sales never explain the context. Who’s buying the weapons, and for what reason? Arms in and of themselves don’t matter. It’s the people who own them who…