Alan Gomez, USA TODAY: Berlin attack latest in disturbing terror trend
If the truck attack on a crowded Berlin market that killed a dozen people sounded familiar, that's because it follows a disturbing trend of terrorism that requires little organization, manpower or technological know-how.
Whether the Berlin rampage represents the latest lone wolf attack or is the latest example of an Islamic State operative able to conceal his ties to the terrorist organization worries authorities.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 20, 2016
Attack on Berlin is bound to change Germany -- Alexander Kudascheff, DW
Unease in the Christmas air in Germany -- Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe
Berlin attack may make Merkel's re-election quest rougher -- AP
The implications of Andrey Karlov assassination -- Akin
Unver, Al Jazeera
Why killing of Russian diplomat may well bring Turkey and Russia closer -- Julian Borger, The Guardian
Aleppo's fall will change U.S. and Russian roles in Syria -- Mohamad Bazzi, Reuters
Greece’s Perpetual Crisis -- Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate
Japan’s existential crisis -- Konrad Yakabuski, The Globe and Mail
China just returned a US Navy drone. Why'd they take it in the first place? -- Bob Bateman, VOX
More Than Meets the Eye in the South China Sea -- Stratfor
Cracks in the Chinese Powerhouse -- Timothy Heath, Cipher Brief
Rex Tillerson’s tenure as US secretary of state is likely to follow an ExxonMobil mindset -- Robin Mills, National Interest
Tracking Trump’s National-Security Conflicts of Interest -- Caroline Houck, Atlantic Media fellow at Defense One
Trump is unifying the fractured GOP foreign policy establishment -- Hugh Hewitt, Washington Post
Why killing of Russian diplomat may well bring Turkey and Russia closer -- Julian Borger, The Guardian
Aleppo's fall will change U.S. and Russian roles in Syria -- Mohamad Bazzi, Reuters
Greece’s Perpetual Crisis -- Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate
Japan’s existential crisis -- Konrad Yakabuski, The Globe and Mail
China just returned a US Navy drone. Why'd they take it in the first place? -- Bob Bateman, VOX
More Than Meets the Eye in the South China Sea -- Stratfor
Cracks in the Chinese Powerhouse -- Timothy Heath, Cipher Brief
Rex Tillerson’s tenure as US secretary of state is likely to follow an ExxonMobil mindset -- Robin Mills, National Interest
Tracking Trump’s National-Security Conflicts of Interest -- Caroline Houck, Atlantic Media fellow at Defense One
Trump is unifying the fractured GOP foreign policy establishment -- Hugh Hewitt, Washington Post
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