by Richard Schulman The US and Saudi Arabia have given new meaning to military operations at the theater level — by running a re-enactment of France’s Maginot Line strategy that led to the fall of France in WWII. US and Saudi Arabian radar and missile defenses were pointed toward Houthi positions to the south. But […]
Strategic caution required in Khashoggi affair
“Politics ain’t beanbag,” as the saying goes, and that goes especially for Mideast politics, where terrorism and murder of opponents are the coin of the realm. Saudi citizen, journalist, Muslim Brotherhood member and its leading propagandist Jamal (“James”) Khashoggi knew this well. He reportedly gave his cell phone to his fiancee waiting outside, set his […]
