Conn Hallinan
LATEST ARTICLES BY Conn Hallinan
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Opinion
Afghanistan: Dangerous illusions about a very bumpy border
August 17, 2011Okay, New York Times, time for a little geography lesson, with a few bits of history thrown in.
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World
Afghanistan: anatomy of a hit
July 28, 2011The assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai in Kandahar is one of those moments when the long and bloody Afghanistan war comes into focus.
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Opinion
Italy: Barbarians at the gates
July 13, 2011There are signs that the Italian economy is running off the rails, but the signs are subtle. Lots of locked houses and long grass, for instance.
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U.S.
War comes home: the traumatic brain injury epidemic
June 28, 2011According to official DOD figures, 332,000 soldiers have suffered brain injuries since 2000. Many of these are mild traumatic brain injuries, a term that is profoundly misleading.
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World
Iran: Turmoil at the top
June 17, 2011There is a struggle between Ahmadinejad and the clerics around Khamenei, but, while it may play out in arguments over obscure religious issues, the fight is over political and economic power.
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Peace
Counter-terrorism: the new face of war
May 31, 2011The assassination of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden did more than knock off America's Public Enemy Number One, it formalized a new kind of warfare.
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World
War crimes and the bombing of Libya
May 20, 2011Are we being dragged into a war whose means violate the Geneva Conventions? It is hard not to answer that question in anything but the affirmative.
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Peace
Bin Laden, Pakistan and the Great Game’s new clothes
May 10, 2011This is, after all, the ground over which the 19th century "Great Game" was played, the essence of which was obfuscation. What you thought you saw or knew was not necessarily what was.
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