Rational Security: The "Did You Miss Us?" Edition

Benjamin Wittes
Thursday, November 5, 2015, 10:19 AM

We missed a week on Rational Security because Shane, Tamara, and I were all out of town last week. Did you miss us? This week, we talk about President Obama's decision to send 50 Special Forces members into Syria; what does it mean, other than 100 boots on the ground (assuming, that is that all 50 have two feet and wear boots). Tamara talks about a new book marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. And I discuss the battle between Christine Fair and Glenn Greenwald over drones strikes.

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We missed a week on Rational Security because Shane, Tamara, and I were all out of town last week. Did you miss us? This week, we talk about President Obama's decision to send 50 Special Forces members into Syria; what does it mean, other than 100 boots on the ground (assuming, that is that all 50 have two feet and wear boots). Tamara talks about a new book marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. And I discuss the battle between Christine Fair and Glenn Greenwald over drones strikes.

Meanwhile, in our Object Lessons segment, I have a new recruit to my fight against Russian President Vladimir Putin:

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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