Friday’s Reading List
By Taylor Marvin
Simone Martini, 1328. Via Wikimedia.
What I read this week:
Not one US servicemember has been killed in Afghanistan in the last 25 days.
Barbara Walter on why Assad will fight to the end.
Inside the Navy’s aircraft carrier deployment budget gamble.
When democratization produces drug violence.
The hidden story of airpower in Libya (via Shashank Joshi).
What patterns of trade might tell us about the democratic peace.
This was published back in December, but The Economist’s story on the 1860s War of the Triple Alliance is excellent.
Did Israel assassinate an IRGC general in Syria?
Reader answers to my question at Political Violence @ a Glance on Iran’s amateurish fakes.
Five ways to make progress in evolutionary psychology: Smash, not match, stereotypes (via Ed Young).
Smoke & Stir 
