Here is the best of what AEI’s foreign and defense policy scholars are reading this week:
• Spencer Ackerman at Wired.com’s Danger Room blog breaks the news of a New U.S. commando team operating near Iran.
• Barbara Starr at CNN.com’s Security Clearance blog reports that the U.S. is back to two carriers near Iran (see a pattern here?).
• Jonathan Tobin at Commentarymagazine.com’s Contentions blog asks Can Obama get away with Iran inaction?
• CNN.com’s Security Clearance blog reports on a speech by former CIA director John McLaughlin detailing how al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is carrying on after the death of Anwar al-Awlaki.
• Tom Joscelyn at LongWarJournal.org marks the 10th anniversary of Guantanamo with this report on an Ex-Gitmo detainee sentenced to 3 years in prison by an Algerian court for returning to the fight.
• Jackson Diehl at the WashingtonPost.com’s PostPartisan blog asks Why talk to the Taliban?.
• Ben Smith at Politico.com reports on A subtle but important shift in Mitt Romney’s foreign policy.
• Robert Kagan in TNR.com on The myth of American decline.
• Scott Johnson at Powerlineblog.com on Who will fact-check the fact-checkers.
• Josh Rogin at ForeignPolicy.com reports that Obama names his world leader BFFs!
• Noah Shachtman at Wired.com’s Danger Room reports that the Air Force’s top brain wants a ‘social radar’ to ‘see into hearts and minds’.
• Jamie Crawford at CNN.com’s Security Clearance blog reports on Diplomacy’s next frontier: space.
