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المحارب الدبلوماسي : معارك أحد مقاتلي القبعات الخضر من واشنطن إلى أفغانستان
في هذا الكتاب «المحارب الدبلوماسي : معارك أحد مقاتلي القبعات الخضر من واشنطن إلى أفغانستان»، يتحدث والتز عن تجربته المباشرة الفريدة، ويكشف عن المشاهد والأصوات والعواطف والتعقيدات التي تنطوي عليها الحرب في أفغانستان، كما يسلط الضوء على قضايا السياسة التي عصفت بالمجهود الحربي هناك طوال العقد الماضي، من تجارة المخدرات، والإصابات بين المدنيين، ونقص الموارد مقارنة بحالة العراق، إلى استراتيجية التحالف الشاملة، وفي الوقت نفسه يشير والتز إلى أن استقرار أفغانستان والمنطقة يظل أمرا حيويا للأمن القومي الأمريكي، وأن الالتزام الطويل الأجل، على غرار كوريا الجنوبية أو ألمانيا، أمر حتمي إذا ما أرادت الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية أن تظل آمنة.
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Trump Throws Michael Waltz Overboard and Offers Him a Leaky Raft
Michael Waltz was thrown overboard as national security adviser while being offered a leaky lifeboat, demotion to US Permanent Representative to the UN. The \"permanent\" thing is at the whim of the increasingly erratic president, who had just contrived to ditch his previous unqualified nominee, Rep. Elise Stefanik, before she presented her credentials. The proximate cause of Waltz's demotion was his use of the Signal platform to share classified information. The focus of this story illustrates successful use of the tactic \"flooding the zone\": The medium completely camouflages the actual message. These people were discussing war crimes against Yemen on an insecure channel, but they are pilloried only because they were indiscreet about it, not because they were plotting to attack a country with which the US was not at war. It is alleged that rather than the Signal fiasco, his real crime was his attitude to Iran, where President Trump has had the temerity to disagree with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
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Warrior Diplomat
Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency,
and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S.
military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both
policymakers in Washington DC and soldiers at war, albeit for
different reasons. Few, however, have dealt with these issues in
the White House situation room and on the front line. Michael G.
Waltz has done just that, working as a policy advisor to Vice
President Richard B. Cheney and also serving in the mountains of
Afghanistan as a Green Beret, directly implementing strategy in the
field that he helped devise in Washington.
In Warrior Diplomat Waltz shares his unique firsthand
experiences, revealing the sights, sounds, emotions, and
complexities involved in the war in Afghanistan. Waltz also
highlights the policy issues that have plagued the war effort
throughout the past decade, from the drug trade, to civilian
casualties, to a lack of resources in comparison to Iraq, to the
overall coalition strategy. At the same time, he points out that
stabilizing Afghanistan and the region remains crucial to national
security and that a long-term commitment along the lines of South
Korea or Germany is imperative if America is to remain secure.
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Military Veterans of the War on Terror
The number of US military veterans of the War on Terror (WoT) who were elected to Congress increased to its highest level ever in 2021. This trend reflects broader changes in the makeup of Congress, which now includes more gender, racial, ethnic, and religious diversity than ever before. This article bridges the literatures on socialization and civil-military relations with foreign-policy analyses of advocacy and entrepreneurship to study WoT veterans in Congress. This cohort of veterans represents a new generation with distinctive experiences that generally include more exposure to combat, more redeployments, and more post-traumatic stress diagnoses than previous generations of soldiers. Specifically, this study examines links between WoT veterans’experiences and their adoption of creative strategies to achieve defense and foreign-policy objectives such as maintaining US commitments to operations in Syria and Afghanistan. Looking beyond roll-call voting with a multidimensional and diversified model of veteran legislative advocacy can enrich our understanding of today’s complex foreign-policy decision-making processes.
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Several household chemical exposures are associated with pediatric‐onset multiple sclerosis
Background There is limited information about the potential associations of multiple sclerosis (MS) and commonly used household chemicals. Methods We performed a case‐control study of exposures to common household chemicals during childhood in children with MS and healthy pediatric controls. Exposures to household products were collected from a comprehensive questionnaire (http://www.usnpmsc.org/Documents/EnvironmentalAssessment.pdf) completed by parents at the time of enrollment in the study. Cases included children diagnosed with MS or clinically isolated syndrome with at least two silent T2 bright lesions on MRI, recruited within 4 years of disease onset from 16 pediatric MS clinics in the USA. Multivariate analyses using logistic regression were adjusted for possible confounders including age, sex, race, ethnicity, mother's highest level of education, and urban versus rural living. Results Questionnaire responses to household chemicals were available for 312 eligible cases (median age 15.7 years, 63% girls) and 490 healthy controls (median age 15.0, 57% girls). Exposure to rodenticides (odds ratio [OR] 2.10, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.35–3.26, P ≤ 0.001), weed control agents (OR 1.99, 95% CI 1.36–2.92, P ≤ 0.001) and products for plant/tree disease control (OR 2.72, 95% CI 1.54–4.82, P ≤ 0.001) anytime during childhood were associated with an increased risk for pediatric‐onset MS in adjusted and multiple comparisons analyses. Conclusions Our findings suggest that exposure to specific household chemicals during early childhood is associated with the risk of developing pediatric‐onset MS. Future studies are needed to elucidate a causal relationship and the exact agents involved.
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