Robert Haddick

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Un-Surge in Afghanistan

Thursday, June 23, 2011

President Obama announced that 10,000 troops would return from Afghanistan this year, and the full 33,000 sent in the recent surge would return by next summer. Robert Haddick, managing editor of Small Wars Journal, discusses the Obama administration's shift.

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As Airstrikes on Libya Continue, Lessons in History

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

NATO increased airstrikes on Libya Wednesday morning, bombarding Gadhafi forces with the heaviest assault since the air campaign started over two-months ago. However, Col. Moammar Gadhafi does not seem any closer to relinquishing power than he did two months ago. What is NATO doing wrong? Robert Haddick, managing editor of Small Wars Journal, says NATO will look to past successful campaigns, such as Kosovo, and try to implement that success to Libya. Haddick explains that there is an element of coercion and pressure implicit in these attacks aimed at getting Gadhafi's leadership to crack.

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The Web of Weapons

Friday, April 01, 2011

Robert Haddick, managing editor of Small Wars Journal, provides a look at supplying weapons to Libyan rebels, the US's history of arming insurgencies and where Gadhafi has gotten his weapons.

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