USAID

Police training in stability ops

September 8, 2010

The U.S. Army War College‘s Strategic Studies Institute published last month a monograph authored by Colonel (Ret.) Dennis E Keller, entitled “U.S. Military Forces and Police Assistance in Stability Operations: The Least-Worst Option to Fill the U.S. Capacity Gap.” Col. Keller gives a historical overview of U.S. foreign police training, where the “U.S. government is poorly [...]

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Lifting the communications embargo

July 15, 2010

Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and editor in chief of Americas Quarterly, argues for lifting the communications embargo on Cuba in the July/August 2010 issue of Foreign Policy magazine: This leaves Washington in a quandary. Last week’s release of the 52 prisoners — independent journalists and human [...]

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Plea for the release continues

June 3, 2010

Foreign Policy‘s The Cable blog reports on yesterday’s briefing by State Dept. spokesman P.J. Crowley: State continues to plea for the release of Alan Gross, the USAID contractor arrested in Cuba for distributing satellite phones, laptops, and the like. The U.S. has been granted consular access to Gross five times, most recently on May 25. Gross’ [...]

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