Since the Russian invasion of Georgia there has been a lot of discussion about the media war and who won it. The Guardian's Peter Wilby, like many others,...
Daniel Korski
Daniel Korski is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yemen as well as in the United States. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Project on National Security Forum.
Return of the Proxy War?
In 2006 the U.S national security establishment “re-discovered” counter-insurgency, as General David Petraeus fresh from having published the Army/Marine COIN...
How low can you go?
Over on the Guardian website, Nick Brown, a senior Labour leader, is supporting Russia’s invasion of Georgia to make a partisan political attack against David...
Buyer’s Regret in London?
You know when you have bought something you weren't sure you needed, but you were tempted beyond control? And anyway, the thing it was meant to replace -...
Will Britain learn from China?
With the Beijing Olympics about to be declared a success, attention will turn to London. One question is on everyone’s minds: can London 2012 match the power...
The view from the U.S
Jules did a piece about an ordinary Russian’s reaction to the Russo-Georgian War. To give some balance, here are the views of an ordinary American and friend...
Post-Musharraf, Pakistan needs help
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is resigning, thus opening a new chapter in this country's history as the governing parties, PPP and PML-N, are bound to...
Russo-Georgian Warfare: Tea and Medals
At the risk of sounding morbid, it's now possible to designate winners and losers in the heats of what will hopefully not become a new Olympic discipline:...
Beginning the reconstruction
Whilst the US has stolen a march on Europe by deciding to send aid with the US military, this will be palliative and humanitarian, rather than deal with the...
Counter-Jihad 2.0
There you are, spotty-faced and filled with anti-Western rage. An Ed Hussein, pre-conversion, in search of a community of co-believers who, like you, want to...
The Secret War with Iran
At the risk of turning Global Dashboard into a book club, I have to recommend a book for the autumn reading list. Written by Ronen Bergman, one of Israel’s...
What’s Georgian for Agranat?
Now that the Russo-Georgian War is coming to an end, hopefully the Georgian authorities will review the steps that led to the confrontation, and its military...
Will Georgia copy Israel or Hezbollah?
Following the Georgian War from the Tel Aviv beaches lends a different perspective. The $ 22 million in military exports from Israel to Georgia belie a much...
Labour’s Mili-tancy
There are many things to say about the story that David Miliband and Alan Milburn, the former Health Secretary, would consider teaming up to run the Labour...
Stop panting, British intelligence will remain
The Telegraph has another “EU-is-taking-over” story today about how moves to create a European intelligence service will jeopardise the work of British spies....
After state-building
Partly to deflect criticism of his call for a withdrawal from Iraq, Senator Barack Obama has said the U.S “should seize the moment” to build up its presence...
Supply or demand? Which way to fight drugs?
That cheeky discusser Alex seems to be both praising me and taking me to tasks for believing that a supply-side approach to the Afghan drugs trade will make a...
Where Korski Goes, the FT follows. Sort of
I hope my fellow bloggers will forgive me this self-indulgent post, but I could not resist. You see, the FT has a leader about the Afghan drugs trade,...
Europe: Stand up and Fight
Yesterday, my colleague and former senior MoD official Nick Witney pushed out a report on the future of European security and defense cooperation. Few people...
Ensuring Security In An Unpredictable World
National security reform is, I guess, one of the leitmotifs of this blog and both Charlie and I have written about this in its U.S and British forms. Now, the...
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