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		<title>UKRAINE UP-DATE, WHAT NOW? RESPONDING AND KEEPING OUR HEAD AND LOOKING AHEAD</title>
		<link>http://cipnationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/ukraine-up-date-what-now-responding-keeping-our-head-and-looking-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry C. Blaney III]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ukraine Up-Date, What Now? Responding and Keeping Our Head and Looking Ahead by Harry C. Blaney III   The Ukrainian revolution has now turned into a global crisis of Cold War proportions. Now is the time for caution, steadiness and resolution. If taken off course, the outcome could be a disaster for all sides, not least for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cipnationalsecurity.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10779913&#038;post=4179&#038;subd=cipnationalsecurity&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CYPRUS PLUS</title>
		<link>http://cipnationalsecurity.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/cyprus-plus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Berlind]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CYPRUS PLUS Alan D. Berlind The recent post by this inattentive blogger (“A CYPRUS SOLUTION”) named various political and geographical entities that have substantial interests in the success of the discussions underway between the two Cypriot communities aimed at re-uniting them under a single sovereign banner:  Cyprus herself, the United States, Turkey, Israel and the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cipnationalsecurity.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10779913&#038;post=4175&#038;subd=cipnationalsecurity&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UKRAINE, A SAD MODEL FOR OUR GLOBAL FUTURE AND A WARNING?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry C. Blaney III]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UKRAINE, A SAD MODEL FOR OUR GLOBAL FUTURE AND A WARNING? By Harry C. Blaney III The upheavals in Ukraine, where we have witness continued conditions of unrest, uncertainty, needless deaths, and political and economic dysfunction, shows us a model of our larger world. Ukraine is but one example of a growing unstable, high risk, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cipnationalsecurity.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10779913&#038;post=4132&#038;subd=cipnationalsecurity&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DEFENSE BUDGET (NEW ONE IN THE WORKS, MAYBE) AND PERHAPS A REAL, MODERN, FORWARD LOOKING DEFENSE POSTURE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEFENSE BUDGET (NEW ONE IN THE WORKS, MAYBE) AND PERHAPS A REAL, MODERN, FORWARD LOOKING DEFENSE POSTURE?

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Harry C. Blaney III

Revealed on Monday February 24th was the defense budget for FY 2015, and the headlines were about the cuts to manpower mostly in the army. Yet, the most important questions of what ought to be our major objectives, an examination of the global security landscape, and finally, the right tools to employ has been given too little attention.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cipnationalsecurity.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10779913&#038;post=4121&#038;subd=cipnationalsecurity&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SYRIA UP-DATE: AFTER GENEVA II, THEN WHAT?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry C. Blaney III]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SYRIA UP-DATE: AFTER GENEVA II, THEN WHAT? by Harry C. Blaney III   President Obama in Washington during the visit of France’s president Hollande, has said that he was fairly pessimistic about progress in gaining peace and a transitional government in Syria. There are indications that the administration is engaged somewhat in new thinking about [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cipnationalsecurity.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10779913&#038;post=4115&#038;subd=cipnationalsecurity&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A CYPRUS SOLUTION</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CYPRUS SOLUTION by Alan D. Berlind Forty years after an attempted Greek coup was met with a Turkish invasion that seized some 40% of the Republic of Cyprus and left some 40,000 Turkish troops on the island, there are signs that a reunification may be in the cards, reportedly with active backing from Washington [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cipnationalsecurity.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10779913&#038;post=4111&#038;subd=cipnationalsecurity&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SYRIA TOO MUCH POSTURING AND TOO LITTLE REAL DIPLOMACY AND REAL PRESSURE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry C. Blaney III]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SYRIA TOO MUCH POSTURING AND TOO LITTLE REAL DIPLOMACY AND REAL PRESSURE by Harry C. Blaney III Once again there is continued unspeakable bloodletting in Syria. Now the guns have been turned on the convoys of humanitarian aid and relief and those escorting civilians out of the killing fields of Homs in Syria. Already, the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cipnationalsecurity.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10779913&#038;post=4103&#038;subd=cipnationalsecurity&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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