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• the costs of NOT dropping the atomic bombs

  From Wikipedia’s entry for Operation Downfall, the plan for the invasion of Japan: Nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan. To the present date, all the American military casualties of the sixty years following the end of World War II — including the Korean [...]

  05 Jul 2008 History, War & Peace; one comment. permalink   

• about those imaginary iraqi terror links

  Surprise! Saddam Hussein had links to terrorist organizations. You need a moment? It’s okay. I’ll wait. . . . Project Harmony, which is sifting through hundreds of thousands of captured documents from the previous regime, released a report on the various links that Ba’athist Iraq provided training, intelligence, or materiel to groups as diverse as: [...]

  31 Mar 2008 Politics, War & Peace; 4 comments. permalink   

• a peek inside the NSC

  Duke professor Peter Feaver writes a fascinating article in Commentary magazine about the shift in the administration’s Iraq policy during his two-year tenure from 2005 – 2007. It’s an interesting look into the process of formulating a policy and watching hundreds of opportunistic leaders do their best to rip it to shreds. Those influenced by [...]

  31 Mar 2008 Politics, War & Peace; no comments. permalink