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...Pace last autumn. The counterinsurgency doctrine--drafted by a group led by Petraeus and published by the Army in 2006--is a remarkable document. It has a Zen tinge, posing nine paradoxes of counterinsurgency warfare like "the more force used, the less effective it is" and "the more you protect your force, the less secure you are." It proposes radical new tactics, which resemble nothing so much as the community policing that transformed New York and other U.S. cities in the 1990s. This requires a revolution in military training, an emphasis on creative decision making rather than on merely following...
...case you fear traveling light, here's a superfluous tchotchke to lug around. It's an umbrella designed to protect your camera. Once you've set up your tripod, this goes up top, above the camera, so that the storm doesn't drench your $1,000 device. In a downpour, setting up and adjusting the umbrella to protect your camera may prove a tricky task. And how often are you desperate to set up a tripod photo when it's raining hard enough to require an umbrella? It'll only cost $25 to find...
...sparked outrage. Thirty-eight women and children had been reported missing from the slum over the past two years, with little response from the authorities. "The most important aspect of these murders is not why the victims were killed or by whom, but the failure of the police to protect the powerless," says Swati Mehta, a consultant for the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, an NGO in New Delhi. "This case is indicative of how the police function in India, and how the system needs to be changed...
...know if Ashley will ever be able to sit up or control a wheelchair with her head as Philip eventually could. "They flew to the worst-case scenarios," she says--worrying about what might happen to Ashley and intervening drastically to prevent it. Removing her uterus will not protect her from abuse, only from pregnancy. Was there really no better...
...executive overreach, but never, ever get on the wrong side of tough national security policies. Echoing the dominant centrist approach, California's Dianne Feinstein, who sits on both the intelligence and judiciary committees, told me yesterday she thinks "it is right to give the government reasonable leeway to protect Americans," while "having hearings and oversight is also helpful in clearing...