Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
"The world isn't black and white, good or bad. The battles that make a real difference are fought in the murky area in between, where the greater good requires brutal sacrifice. Where both the means and the ends are just shadows in a featureless gray landscape. And that was the death of my idealism."
-Rachel Vincent
"There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens."
- Scott Adams
"The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area."
- Edward Jay Epstein
1. The Media Manufactured Biden’s Political ‘Fiasco’ in Afghanistan
2. Winning Ugly: What the War on Terror Cost America
3. Mission Afghanistan: Advice for A US Special Operations Unit (2009)
4. Masters and Commanders: Are Civil-Military Relations in Crisis?
5. $6,500 on a charter plane to escape from Afghan hell
6. CIA, U.S. Troops Conduct Missions Outside Kabul Airport to Extract Americans, Afghan Allies
7. U.S. Still Searching for Americans in Afghanistan as Deadline Closes In
8. Three Aircraft Carriers. Dozens Of Stealth Fighters. A Powerful Allied Battle Group Has Gathered Near China.
9. All Rapport, No Results: What Afghanistan’s Collapse Reveals About the Flaws in US Security Force Assistance
10. Rejecting Covid Inquiry, China Peddles Conspiracy Theories Blaming the U.S
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/8-26-2021-National-Security-News-and-Commentary.html?soid=1114009586911&aid=UroT7oJDZjM
