See, this is example of why Robert Kaplan is so awesome. I’ve read plenty of interesting commentary on the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, but almost all of it focuses on local issues: how did the government’s counterinsurgency campaign work?; how has the Tamil civilian population been affected?; etc. By contrast, Kaplan [...]

Reflecting on the demise of the Tamil Tigers, Christopher Hitchens writes the following:
Deciding to fight as a conventional army that belonged to a separate state, the LTTE has now been defeated as a conventional army, and its state has ceased to exist. Not since the British defeated the Malayan Communists, who were too much restricted [...]