FAO Quotables

"But being right, even morally right, isn't everything. It is also important to be competent, to be consistent, and to be knowledgeable. It's important for your soldiers and diplomats to speak the language of the people you want to influence. It's important to understand the ethnic and tribal divisions of the place you hope to assist."
-Anne Applebaum

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Congressional Research Service Reports: A Great Resource...if you can find them

Congressional Research Service Reports: A Great Resource...if you can find them.  Even though the taxpayers are ponying up for them, they aren't all publicly available or organized.  However there are a few websites that organize and post the ones that are:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/index.html
http://opencrs.com/

Here are two recent ones I enjoyed reading:
Senegal: Background and US Relations
25 March 2011
By Alexis Arieff
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R41369_20110325.pdf

Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa
22 March 2011
By Lauren Ploch
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL34003.pdf
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