GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS

Japan Confirms ‘Secret' Pacts With US - By Associated Press (11/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
Associated Press   
Thursday, 11 March 2010 08:14

By Associated Press

TOKYO - Japan confirmed Tuesday secret Cold War-era pacts with Washington that tacitly allowed nuclear warships in Japanese ports in violation of a hallowed postwar principle, effectively acknowledging that previous governments had lied about them for decades.

While the move was welcomed as a step toward greater government transparency, atomic bomb survivors expressed disgust that officials kept such agreements hidden for dozens of years.

The revelations came after an investigation by a panel of experts appointed by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government, which swept to power last fall on promises to bring more openness to government. His left-leaning party defeated the long-ruling conservatives who repeatedly denied the existence of such agreements.

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US, Japan Alliance Grows Uncertain - By Teri Weaver, David Allen and Chiyomi Sumida (10/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
Teri Weaver, David Allen and Chiyomi Sumida   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 07:58

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Iranian Threat To Destroy Israel Doesn't Hold Up - By Avner Cohen (10/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
Avner Cohen   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 07:56

By Avner Cohen – J Street

What if our leaders and pundits had reacted to the Iranian nuclear program in a completely different way than they actually have? What if they had not viewed an Iranian bomb as an "existential threat" and instead treated it as something that, even if it became a reality, would be a major global political problem, but not a military threat - because Iran (like every other nuclear state) would never be able to use a nuclear bomb as an operational military weapon?

What if Israel had treated Iran's nuclear project as an exhibitionist, even childish, attempt by a nation mired in a deep identity crisis to exploit the prestige and mystique of nuclear power to create a national ethos of technological progress at home, as well as a diplomatic miracle cure that would enable it to challenge the West and move to the center of the international stage?

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The Drama Of Iraqi Elections (8/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 08 March 2010 08:40

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How to Fight a Better War (Next Time): Three Fixes for the American Way of War - By Tom Engelhardt (6/3/10) PDF Print E-mail
By Tom Engelhardt   
Saturday, 06 March 2010 13:48

TomDispatch.com, March 3, 2010

Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it's never too soon to think about the next war.  The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners.  The question is:  Are they focusing on how to manage future wars so that they won't last longer than the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World War II combined?

There's reason to worry, especially since the lessons of both Iraq and Afghanistan are clear: it takes years after a war has been launched for the U.S. military to develop tactics that lead to stasis.  ("Victory" is a word that has gone out of fashion.)

Here, then, are three modest suggestions for recalibrating the American way of war.  All are based on a simple principle -- "preventive war planning" -- and are focused on getting the next war right before it begins, not decades after it's launched.

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