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		<title>Back into the Shadows: The Sudden Demise of a General</title>
		<link>http://finalstandblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/back-into-the-shadows-the-sudden-demise-of-a-general/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has dismissed the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, amidst an uproar caused by an article published in the Rolling Stone magazine. McChrystal, who carried the hopes and expectations of many in spite of the marked escalation of the conflict, lasted little more than a year. This was my bottom line when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=675&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Force Back on the Table?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coercion/Compellence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times of London has revealed today that Saudi Arabia is prepared to open part of its airspace for an Israeli strike against Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities, quoting both Saudi and US defense sources. Apparently, the Saudi armed forces have run drills geared to avoiding any accidental engagements between Israeli planes and Saudi air defenses in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=657&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legality, Legitimacy and the New Misdeeds of the &#8220;Jewish Pirate&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://finalstandblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/legality-legitimacy-and-the-new-misdeeds-of-the-jewish-pirate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate surrounding the Gaza blockade and Mavi Marmara incident is in full swing and it&#8217;s getting both sadder and more ridiculous by the hour. I still find the sheer dimensions of the response you get whenever Israel does something &#8220;outrageous&#8221; hard to believe, way beyond anything even faintly resembling plausibility and more disproportionate than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=627&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Strategy-Making: Another Battle Lost&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://finalstandblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/israeli-strategy-making-another-battle-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 21:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, even the most cursory glance at the discussion fora of numerous quality papers, so-called, is enough to reveal that a) being a quality paper doesn&#8217;t mean having readers of the same, a similar or, indeed, any quality at all (but they reveal that 24/7/365),  and b) it&#8217;s Israel-bashing season and people love it.  (Doubtless, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=598&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AfPak and the Limits of Air Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 23:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the number of American dead in Afghanistan and Pakistan reached 1000, according to icasualties.org. Against this somber backdrop, I&#8217;d like to return to a more familiar issue which figured prominently on the &#8220;old&#8221; Final Stand blog, namely, the use of air power in that theater of the GWOT, no-longer-so-called. Since I have last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=545&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Note on Educability and Guts</title>
		<link>http://finalstandblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/a-note-on-educability-and-guts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 12:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear weapons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a brief comment on the apparent P5 agreement on a new Iran sanctions resolution: When the Turkish-Brasilian angle popped up the day before yesterday, I was confident that the Iranians &#8212; by now the world&#8217;s undisputed masters when it comes to stalling for time &#8212; had pulled it of once again. The clear implication [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=552&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8 May 1945: Victory, But At What Cost&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://finalstandblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/victory-but-at-what-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 22:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Old, unhappy, far-off things...]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Honor the fallen brave. We still remember. Filed under: Old, unhappy, far-off things...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=518&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dire Straits: Area Denial and the Rise of Asymmetry</title>
		<link>http://finalstandblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/dire-straits-area-denial-and-the-rise-of-asymmetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Strategy (Naval)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conscious of the danger that some might get the impression that I&#8217;ve left terra firma behind for good,  I embark on writing the third naval strategy post in a row. Landlubbers may rest assured, however, that I will head back to shore after this one and stay away from the watery blue &#8212; and brown, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=435&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flexing Muscles in the South China Sea: &#8220;Just the Beginning&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://finalstandblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/flexing-muscles-in-the-south-china-sea-just-the-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you will have gathered from the monster size of my inaugural post on the &#8220;new&#8221; Final Stand, I&#8217;m still working on the conciseness-bit of the new mission&#8230;:) However, while I&#8217;ve not yet done my homework, it certainly appears the PLA Navy has done hers &#8212; and more thoroughly than I realized at first. Meaning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=458&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Naval Break-out Takes Shape. Or Does It?</title>
		<link>http://finalstandblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/the-chinese-break-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Haas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may seem a little odd that I should be kicking off the All New Final Stand with an assessment of Chinese military modernization, which hasn&#8217;t figured at all in my earlier commentary here and hasn&#8217;t been one of my principal areas of interest or expertise. However, I do find some of most recent developments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=finalstandblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7694517&amp;post=378&amp;subd=finalstandblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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