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	<description>Eric Roitsch, National Security Analyst, Author, Lecturer</description>
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		<title>Kismayo Falls: Silent Victory, Quiet War</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2012/10/10/kismayo-falls-silent-victory-quiet-war/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2012/10/10/kismayo-falls-silent-victory-quiet-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the world’s attention focused on high-profile conflicts such as Afghanistan and Syria, and humanitarian crises in Darfur and Haiti, the troubled East African state of Somalia seems to have fallen off the global radar screen, though its duress eclipses that of the aforementioned nations in terms of both intensity of conflict and human suffering.<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2012/10/10/kismayo-falls-silent-victory-quiet-war/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Melee in Mali</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2012/08/23/melee-in-mali/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone ever even heard of Mali?  Relatively few people other than Africa observers and Terrorism analysts have heard of Mali, but that obscurity may be short-lived. This large, sparsely populated West African nation is rapidly beginning to show signs of becoming the next front in the War on Terror. In recent years, Mali has<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2012/08/23/melee-in-mali/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian Contagion in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2012/08/08/syrian-contagion-in-lebanon/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2012/08/08/syrian-contagion-in-lebanon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When considering the deployment of a nation’s military to support peacekeeping or stability operations, national interest usually trumps morality. In the 1994, the US did not intervene to stop the Rwandan genocide in which nearly a million Tutsis were butchered by the Hutus because it did not threaten US interests. Yet just a few years<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2012/08/08/syrian-contagion-in-lebanon/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Economy and Center of Gravity</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/08/28/debt-and-centers-of-gravity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/08/28/debt-and-centers-of-gravity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to buy national security?  During the Ancient and Medieval periods, it was common for potentates, kings and even empires to pay an adversary not to attack. Rome did so when the Goths threatened their northern frontier. Constantinople later paid successive generations of Arabs to leave them in peace. In these cases as<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/08/28/debt-and-centers-of-gravity/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Withdrawal From Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/07/01/withdrawal-from-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a senior Military Officer publicly disagrees with the President of the United States, it tends to make headlines.    Since the President’s announcement of a strategic retirement from Afghanistan, the news media has been broadcasting testimony of senior military officers as they disagree with the President’s plan before Congressional panels. They do so for a<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/07/01/withdrawal-from-afghanistan/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pressure to Withdraw</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/06/02/pressure-to-withdraw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Historically, nations that are broke do not have the capability to wage war, yet the United States simply goes deeper into the financial hole to support combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. For many, this along with the death of Osama Bin Laden, justifies a withdrawal from both theatres of operation. Last week, all but<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/06/02/pressure-to-withdraw/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Intelligence Carrot(?)</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/05/22/an-intelligence-carrot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 22:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were to envision what the detention center for America’s worst enemies would look like, would family visitation be part of it?  The Pentagon is currently weighing whether or not to grant that privilege to the 172 terrorist detainees remaining at the Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) Detention Facility. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers in the US House<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/05/22/an-intelligence-carrot/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Timing &amp; Tempo</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/03/18/timing-tempo/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/03/18/timing-tempo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can Hannibal’s invasion of Italy in the third century BC and Custer’s campaign against the Sioux in 1876 possibly apply to the 21st century war on terror?  Principles of warfare are timeless and unchanging. During the campaigns of both Hannibal and Custer, timing and tempo played a huge role in the success and failure<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/03/18/timing-tempo/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the US Intelligence Services?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/02/21/where-are-the-us-intelligence-services/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/02/21/where-are-the-us-intelligence-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When CIA Director, Leon Panetta was asked what the new Egyptian government would look like in the Wake of President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, he unapologetically replied; “You know as much as I do.”  Though Panetta is clearly out of touch with international security issues, there are many private intelligence think tanks such as Stratfor and<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/02/21/where-are-the-us-intelligence-services/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cairo in Flames</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/02/09/cairo-in-flames/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/02/09/cairo-in-flames/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roitsch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a second Iran in the Middle-East, sharing a border with Israel and controlling the Suez Canal and all the oil and East-West commerce flowing through it. If events in Cairo are allowed to escalate to the point of governmental collapse, a second Iran is what the transformed Egypt will likely resemble.  For two weeks,<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/roitsch/2011/02/09/cairo-in-flames/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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