Lebanon, America, and the Courage of Fouad Ajami
For his courage to think independently, and for his honesty in tackling Arab failure, Ajami became the guiding light for many Arab thinkers after him.
Thomas Edward Lawrence
The U.S. Military And South Korea Must Train To Deter North Korea
ROK/U.S. combined training – routine but necessary defensive exercises – is described in the media in various ways that causes confusion among the public. With the start of the annual computer simulation...
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Lawrence of Arabia may have been murdered by British secret service, new film suggests
A controversial new biopic about T.E. Lawrence suggests British secret service may have murdered the famous desert warrior. The British army officer and...
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‘Lawrence of Arabia’ Was a Zionist
This week, May 19 to be exact, marks the 80th anniversary of the death of T. E. Lawrence — generally known as Lawrence of Arabia — who played a crucial role as a British officer in de...
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BOOK REVIEW: Was Lawrence Gay in Arabia?
Among the innumerable highly regarded T.E. Lawrence biographies, Anthony Sattin’s new work, “The Young T.E. Lawrence,” is noteworthy in deftly capturing the pre-World War I inte...
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Why Rachel Corrie Went to Gaza
What the pro-Palestinian activist—whose death was just ruled an accident—shared with Lawrence of Arabia
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Victim of Assad
In a grim footnote to the ongoing human tragedy in Syria, the country's cultural he...
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The First Time
Desert Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia by Charles Townshend Belknap Press, 624 pp., $35 THIS BOOK IS an exquisite history of the excruciatingly diffi...
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An Actor-centric Theory of War
The United States, the most powerful nation in the world, is reassessing its approach to war. With America entering the 10th year of what was originally called the global war on terror, the Natio...
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Pashtuns and Pakistanis
The war in Afghanistan obviously isn't going well. Depressing critiques from all quarters underscore Afghanistan's appalling poverty, warlordism, religious conservatism, corruption, pop...
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The War is Justified by Saddam’s Evil…It Will Give Iraq a Better Future
By Richard Chesnoff There's a lot of hand-wringing over what happens to Iraq after Saddam Hussein is ousted, which he will be very shortly, now that the war has begun....