Jan. 15, 2008--Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s, and is now suffering the violent blowback of that policy... NYT A1
--The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq's borders from external threat until at least 2018.--NYT A1
--When the elite of global business father in Davos, Switzerland, for their annual retreat next week ... Power and wealth have shifted from West to East, from major oil companies to petro-governments, and from US banks and hedge funds to the state-controlled investments funds of the Middle East and Asia.--WSJ A6
--Will the Iraq war produce peacetime technological benefits comparable with previous conflicts? So far, it doesn't seem so, says Victor Davis Hanson, a military historian. --WSJB12
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