Foreign and Defense Policy

Best of the foreign policy blogs (Jan. 7-13, 2012)

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Here is the best of what AEI scholars are reading this week from the foreign policy and national security blogosphere:

• Max Boot at CommentaryMagazine.com lays out the tragic consequences of past American defense drawdowns in Slashing America’s Defense: A Suicidal Trajectory.

• Tom Joscelyn at WeeklyStandard.com offers a brutal takedown of two New York Times op-eds by former Guantanamo detainees Lakhdar Boumediene and Murat Kurnaz in The Stories ex-Gitmo Detainees Tell.

• David French at NationalReview.com explains the disturbing phenomenon of Ron Paul’s Appeal Among the Military.

• Jonathan Tobin at CommentaryMagazine.com explains why Killing Iranian Scientists Is Not Terrorism.

• Fouad Ajami at WashingtonPost.com details Five Myths About the Arab Spring.

• Jaime Daremblum at PJMedia.com reports on how a financially strapped Iran is seeking a lifeline in Latin America.

• Eric Trager at WashingtonInstitute.org on The Muslim Brotherhood’s Radical Plan for Egypt.

• Josh Rogin at ForeignPolicy.com reports on the effort to Protect former Pakistani Ambassador to Washington Husain Haqqani.

• Barbara Demick at LATimes.com on the Chinese Communist Party’s love affair with high-end cars (they like their Lamborghinis red).

• Allison Barrie at FoxNews.com reports that Spider-Man Body Armor May Finally Be Within Reach.

• Rafa Needleman at Cnet.com explains how For $300 you too can have a smartphone-controlled, video-recording micro-drone (missiles not included).

 

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