Articles & Blog Posts by Douglas Hanson

• Dealing Us Out of the War
• Nukes, Terrorists, and the Nation-State Connection
• Poland 'reconsiders' Euro-US missile defense deal
• Indian Communists reverse stance on nuke talks
• Former Putin Associate Seeks Georgian Presidency
• Former Putin Associate seeks Georgian Presidency
• Anti-theistic Film Premieres Next Month
• Big Players and the Stakes in the Unrest in Georgia
• US-Euro Missile Defense Shield May Be Delayed
• South Texas Set to Make Energy History
• India's ruling party says nuclear deal still on
• Lessons from the latest intelligence leak
• Democrats obstruct geopolitical strategy
• Baghdad Jim Sides with the Enemy - Again
• Communists threaten to cut support from India's ruling government
• Protests shut down Indian Parliament four days early
• Recounting Abrams' War in Vietnam
• Leftists in India freeze nuclear deal with US
• Sarkozy Counters Russia's Gazprom
• Leftists in India Freeze Nuke Deal with US
• Russia Confronts NATO and the US
• Venezuela buys aircraft from Russia
• Iraqi Science Ministry Official Kidnapped
• Reports of Al-Douri's switch may be premature
• Threat of another Prague Spring
• More military digital shenanigans
• The Real Lesson of the Beauchamp Affair
• Russia bombing incident in Georgia and NATO
• Is Russia's Power on the Decline?
• Russian Bomb Dropped on Georgia
• Iraqi armed forces turn to China while Pentagon dithers
• The Surge: Another View
• Bin Laden and the Baluchistan Connection
• SecDef Gates to Putin: Drop Dead!
• Political order under stress in South Africa
• Al-Qaeda in South Africa
• War Films That Get It Right: Two Classics Re-released
• Democrats Subverting US Global Strategy
• Georgia increases military commitment to Coalition
• No WMD in Iraq? (A continuing series)
• AFRICOM Briefing
• Another Crisis in Command
• Bombing a place I know well
• The Caucasus maneuver is working
• No WMD in Iraq? (A continuing series)
• The New Silk Road
• No WMD in Iraq? (A continuing series)
• No WMDs in Iraq? Part II
• Novak Finally Gets It
• What? No WMDs in Iraq?
• The CIA: clueless or conniving?
• The US - Mexico Border Powder Keg
• Keegan's alternate reality
• Corporate bosses against school vouchers
• Ignoring the covert nuclear club
• US African Command Established by President Bush
• Gaia's Warriors
• Harsh tradition continues in the Russian Army
• Answering the call
• Fantasy and Reality: 24 and the War on Terror
• US secret force against Iranian influence in Iraq
• The real stakes
• Admiral Fallon and CENTCOM
• Who betrayed the military?
• The National Guard needs to be guarded
• Here comes the new boss; same as the old boss
• What happened to Letters from Iwo Jima? (updated)
• Victory the Old Fashioned Way
• The India - US strategic partnership
• Money and Waging War: the Myth of WW II
• Karpinski's delusions
• Defending the troop strength deception
• The Generals' Fantasy Wars
• Eastwood Stumbles with Flags
• Deconstructing the 'Niger Affair'
• Georgian Forces Move into Abkhazia
• Putin as the New Gorbachev
• Dealing with Hezbollah's Siegfried Line
• A Warning from the Army Chief of Staff
• Saddam's WMD: Discovery and Denial
• The Beltway Replays the Vietnam War
• Putin, Iran and the Caucasus
• Border Towns Under Siege
• Fitzgerald and Plame's Covert Status
• The Counter-insurgency Bugaboo
• The Yellowcake Connection
• General Zinni and Pre-War Intelligence
• Defeating Iran
• Our Sunni friends
• Putin's dangerous game with Iran
• CENTCOM Reports 27 November 2005
• Free agents
• Getting it wrong on the Gulf War
• Covering up Iraq's quest for uranium in Africa
• CENTCOM Reports
• The troop strength question
• IAEA issues ultimatum to Iran
• Federal funding of Louisiana disaster planning
• Battle Tanks vs. Bulldozers
• Shilling for a nuclear Iran
• Sharon's Gaza maneuver
• The Balkan terrorist connection
• The Iran - Russia nuclear pact
• Strategy and Saddam
• Transformation of the US Army
• The National Guard and homeland security
• Congress and force structure realignment
• Russia's nuclear deception
• Another Clinton legacy
• The Balkans fiasco continues
• Winning battles and losing wars
• Birds of a feather
• Second-class citizens
• The hypocrisy of the Army Times
• Target: Iran
• The next domino
• Troop strength and Congress
• Counting the cost
• Bush, military forces, and a strategic vision
• The left's body count dilemma
• Fighting the SecDef instead of fighting the war
• A cry in the wilderness
• Here we go again
• Netwar: The first battles
• Journalists and the CIA bomb out
• Arafat's first war
• The IAEA's game
• Where We Stand (II)
• The UN, Al-Tuwaitha, and nukes
• Where We Stand
• The real chain of connection
• Battle Blog 20-26 September 2004
• Battle Blog 13 -19 September 2004
• Rathergate producer Mapes needs to get a lawyer
• A-hunting we will go
• Battle Blog 6 - 12 September 2004
• Battle Blog 30 August - September 5 2004
• Sadr's reign of terror
• Battle Blog 23 - 29 August 2004
• Can we talk?
• Our German allies
• Battle Blog 16 - 22 August 2004
• The Russian cheerleader
• Battle Blog 8-15 August 2004
• The fight in Najaf
• WMDs in Iraq - the real story begins to emerge
• Battle Blog 1 - 7 August 2004
• Oklahoma is OK
• Council revives flawed strategy
• Battle Blog 25 - 31 July 2004
• The quagmire nobody talks about
• Battle Blog 18 - 24 July 2004
• Battle Blog 11 - 17 July 2004
• The UN, Al-Tuwaitha, and nukes
• Battle Blog 4 - 10 July 2004
• Mainstream press reporter joins the wrong side
• Curtain call in the Balkans
• Battle Blog 27 June - 3 July 2004
• Finally!
• Battle Blog 20 - 26 June 2004
• War coverage interrupted
• Battle Blog 13 - 19 June 2004
• Iran raises the ante
• Battle Blog 6 - 12 June 2004
• Investigating the obvious
• The Homeland Security Pork Barrel
• Battle Blog 30 May - 5 June 2004
• Dog Seven
• Battle Blog 23 - 29 May 2004
• The low-down on Zinni
• Pesticides, Precursors, and Petulance Revisited
• Information Warfare 101
• Deutschland Unter Alles
• Senator Hagel's Flashback
• Advantage: Iran
• Numbers Racket
• Depleted uranium: the saga continues
• An Open Letter to Dan Rather and CBS News
• Pesticides, Precursors, and Petulance
• Case Not Closed: Iraq's WMD Stockpiles