In addition to guest posts here at attwiw, your subscriptions this year also made it possible for me to bring a few guests on to my podcast, which was definitely exciting for me and I would imagine for people who listen to the podcast and would like to hear somebody else's voice every now and … Continue reading In Case You Missed It: attwiw’s 2018 Interviews

I'm taking a break from heavy blogging but I'm not dead, and so I have some preliminary thoughts about Donald Trump's announcement today that the US is pulling its forces out of Syria (or is going to pull them out of Syria, or considering pulling them out of Syria, or something--the Trump administration, like Syria, … Continue reading Dangerous Donald’s Dastardly Syrian Deeds

As I mentioned on Monday, support from attwiw subscribers helped us add a couple of new features this year. I'm particularly excited that we've been able to start featuring posts by other writers here at attwiw, people who can bring you more in-depth features on interesting topics. With your support I want to continue and … Continue reading In Case You Missed It: attwiw’s 2018 Guest Posts

The Ottomans I think sometimes get a bad rap for losing World War I, because, hey, if you only go by the final result it was a pretty total Ottoman defeat. But the fact of the matter is that Ottoman forces generally acquitted themselves well for most of the war, especially in Europe and the … Continue reading Today in World history: the Armistice of Mudros (1918)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU Technically speaking we're not supposed to be visiting one another again until tomorrow, and that's when we'll be resuming our regular updates around here. But as you likely know by now there's something that's been going on in Iran for the past couple of days. I thought we maybe ought to focus on that … Continue reading Iran All Night and Day

The 64th anniversary of the coup that toppled Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was Saturday, and rather than write another Deep Thought about that event and the impact it had on Iranian and world history, I thought--mostly because I am extremely swamped at the moment--that I would link you to this Foreign Policy piece which in … Continue reading Mosaddegh and the CIA, 64 years later

I just want to briefly run through the latest news on Thursday/Friday's two terrorist incidents in Spain, the vehicle attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. The combined death toll from the three incidents, not counting dead terrorists, now stands at 14, after a woman injured in the Cambrils attack died. The fifth attacker in that latter incident … Continue reading Updates on Barcelona/Cambrils

At least one person has been killed and almost certainly more than that in a terrorist attack along Barcelona's tourist-heavy Las Ramblas street. Earlier this evening local time a van hopped the curb and drove into a crowd of people on the sidewalk. Catalan police later confirmed that this was a deliberate act and was/is … Continue reading DEVELOPING: Barcelona terror attack

Brookings' Bruce Reidel says that Donald Trump's $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia is "Fake News": I’ve spoken to contacts in the defense business and on the Hill, and all of them say the same thing: There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but … Continue reading Stop calling everything “Fake News”