Source: Operation Inherent Resolve And Other Overseas Contingency Operations (82-pg PDF, October 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018) ...

    Source: The Pentagon's $2.2 Billion Soviet Arms Pipeline Flooding Syria

      Source: Cultural Assessment of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (74-pg PDF)

              Source:  Counter-Da'esh Influence Operations: Cognitive Space Narrative Simulation Insights (69-pg PDF)

Listening to the radio and reading the news lately there has been a lot about the Russian-backed advance of the Syrian army on the city...

      Source: ISIL Influence and Resolve (71-page PDF)

Source: Report: U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels may have committed war crimes in Syria

Source: 'Almost quarter of a million people' dead in Syria war

  Source: In two charts, this is what refugees say about why they are leaving Syria now

"Il faut être psychiatre pour comprendre que c'est un menteur pathologique... On a affaire à un psychopathe doté d'une d...

Source: Many Americans link U.S. military strike in Syria to end times

President Obama, looking for reasons for military action in Syria e ngages in somewhat of a stretch to tie military action against the...

OK, so there has been a lot of talk about 'proof' that Assad gave the order to use sarin on civilians... This blogger observes ...

" The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does no...

Source: Armed Conflict in Syria: U.S. and International Response

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Click to enlarge Source: The Economist

Earlier blog posts, summarized by the November 2010 entry ' Getting to agreement ', highlighted the illusory nature of a number of t...

Picture of the "Syria (government) massacre in Houla" , helpfully provided by " Activist ." Originally via the BBC then...