Here is a rather scathing review of UN operations by Anthony Banbury, the former United Nations assistant secretary general for field support. He lambastes the
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Freedom in the World: 2016 -Freedom House
Freedom House has released its 2016 global summary. As usual, the results were not good. However Tunisia has made the list of “Free” states. A
U.N. says some of its peacekeepers were paying 13-year-olds for sex -Washington Post
Allegations of sexual misconduct and/or rape among UN peacekeepers are not new. This report is notable because The UN is acknowledging that peacekeepers have become
Why the U.S. military can’t succeed in training foreign armies -Reuters
“The reason that U.S.-trained foreign forces usually do not prevail is not because they are poorly trained and ill-equipped. In fact, they often have better
Syria’s one hope may be as dim as Bosnia’s once was -Reuters
This article is very speculative, but it provides a potential model for post-civil war Syria. As the article also mentions however, the situation in Syria
Map: The walls Europe is building to keep people out
“After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, for a while it seemed like border fences and barriers were a thing of the past in Europe. Many
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