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	<title>SHAFR.org &#187; William Stueck</title>
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		<title>The Korean War at 60</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/06/20/the-korean-war-at-60/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harry Truman administration:  1945-1953]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korean War: 1950-1953]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anniversaries of wars invite reflection, but since wars are often complex in nature and ambiguous in legacy the question of what exactly to reflect on can be difficult to resolve.  When it comes to Korea, for example, we could dwell upon the following facts:  it was a hideously destructive conflict, especially for the Korean people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan and the Chinese Civil War</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/12/afghanistan-and-the-chinese-civil-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/12/afghanistan-and-the-chinese-civil-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harry Truman administration:  1945-1953]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperialism/Colonization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any political historian will tell you that government decisionmakers frequently use historical analogies in making up their minds and that, more often than not, they do so badly.   And Kimber Quinney reminded us in her thoughtful November 9 commentary that historians are not immune to employing such analogies either, or in doing so badly.
Yet as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would happen if Kim Jong-il tested a Nuke and the United States Didn&#8217;t Notice?</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/05/25/what-would-happen-if-kim-jong-il-tested-a-nuke-and-the-united-states-didnt-notice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/05/25/what-would-happen-if-kim-jong-il-tested-a-nuke-and-the-united-states-didnt-notice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 22:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear proliferation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, President Kim, so you&#8217;re really ticked off at my failure to comment on your prior shinanigans on the SHAFR blog. You win. I&#8217;m finally going to advise the Obama administration on how to respond to your recent, alleged, test of a nuke, and in public on the SHAFR blog.
Darth Cheney to the contrary notwithstanding, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>closing guantanamo:  managing insecurity</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/05/21/closing-guantanamo-managing-insecurity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/05/21/closing-guantanamo-managing-insecurity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a card-carrying member of the ACLU. I do not believe that the rights outlined in the Bill of Rights are absolute. I&#8217;ve even been known to tell telephone solicitors for the NRA who invoke the second amendment, that their ilk are members of one of  the top ten evil organizations in the country (in language not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>torture and &#8220;the one percent doctrine&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/04/22/torture-and-the-one-percent-doctrine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/04/22/torture-and-the-one-percent-doctrine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-9/11:  2001-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is end-of-the-semester crunch time, but the lead story in the New York Times this morning is sufficiently powerful and disturbing to get me away from a pile of student papers. I confess that revelations that the Bush administration adopted tactics used by the Chinese Communists in the Korean War turned my stomach. Yet it occurs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cold War and Post-Cold War Worlds:  Continuities in Grand Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/03/06/the-cold-war-and-post-cold-war-worlds-continuities-in-grand-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/03/06/the-cold-war-and-post-cold-war-worlds-continuities-in-grand-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam:  1961-1975]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Independence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harry Truman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Multilateralism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune recently to participate in a conference at Duke University sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Strategic Studies. Each of the five sessions featured a paper on the reassessments of U.S. grand strategy that occurred in the aftermath of one of America&#8217;s wars from World War II to the present&#8211;World War II, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Paul Kennedy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/12/rethinking-paul-kennedy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/12/rethinking-paul-kennedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Early Cold War:  1945-1961]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Late Cold War:  1961-1991]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policymaking--American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-9/11:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory and Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imperial overstretch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Nye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kennedy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Historians are not known for their prescience. There&#8217;s something about studying the past, with all its complexity, that discourages many of us from looking forward with any sense of confidence. Those of us who can&#8217;t resist the temptation as often as not&#8211;perhaps moreso&#8211;get things wrong. I remember that in the fall of 1980 I decided for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ole Johnny Just Can&#8217;t Let Go</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/03/ole-johnny-just-cant-let-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/03/ole-johnny-just-cant-let-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War:  2003-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Bolton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Old folks like yours truly tend to have lost some of their ability to get their dander up&#8211;not to mention a few other things.  Yet if there&#8217;s anything that&#8217;s certain to reassure me that I&#8217;m still alive and kickin&#8217; it&#8217;s to confront at 6 AM in the morning, after my first cup of coffee, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Obama&#8217;s Election Means</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/21/what-obamas-election-means/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/21/what-obamas-election-means/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As African Americans celebrate the rise of one of their own, for the first time, to the highest office in the land and white folks self-congratulate for either not preventing it from happening or helping the process along, we might bear in mind that Barack Obama became president of the United States yesterday because he demonstrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq, Afghanistan, and American Credibility:  Historical Parallels, Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/08/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/08/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford administration:  1974-1977]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter administration:  1977-1981]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I signed off last week with the promise of more to come on the risk to American credibility worldwide of a U.S. failure, or even,  as Secretary of Defense Gates suggested, a perceived failure, in either Afghanistan or Iraq.  Gates has declared that either one would be &#8220;disastrous.&#8221;  I was in the process of examining the impact of the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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