Stevenson’s army, January 1

Best wishes for a happy one!

– WSJ says big winners in Afghanistan were private contractors.

– NYT says Kabul airport suicide bomber had recently been released from prison.

Many sites have “best of year” collections.  Here’s WOTR’s. Here’s one from the Economist. FP has a future cast.

And here’s a search engine that doesn’t have ads in your results.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).