– New Yorker – Jon Lee Anderson on the last days of Muammar Qaddafi.

– Geopolitics / Pakistan – The Journalist and The Spies – Dexter Filkins reports on the murder of a reporter who exposed Pakistan’s secrets.

– The Atlantic – James Fallows writes that just after the streets of Tunisia and Egypt erupted, China saw a series of “Jasmine” protests-until the government stopped them cold. Its methods were subtler than they had been at Tiananmen Square, and more insidious. Was the regime’s defensive reaction just paranoia? Or is the Chinese public less satisfied-and more combustible-than it appears?

– New York Times Magazine – Syria’s rebel youth have had to teach themselves everything.

– The Atlantic – The longtime Atlantic writer reflects on what the United States — and he personally — got wrong and right about Afghanistan and Iraq.

– Daily Telegraph – Very interesting look at how the end game in Tripoli unfolded…

– US Naval Institute Proceedings – Its ever-contentious relationship with America is unlikely to change, but the time is right for a reassessment of U.S. strategy in the region.

– Geopolitics / New York Times Magazine – If Ali Abdullah Saleh and his generals believe they can defeat protesters, they are taking an enormous risk.

– New Yorker – The unintended consequences of American funding in Pakistan.

– Chatham House – Niall Ferguson on the future of China.

– Wall Street Journal – Henry Kissinger on the future of China.

– Esquire – Thomas P.M. Barnett analyses the revolutions in the Arab world.

– New Yorker – Jon Lee Anderson asks can a ragtag civilian army defeat a dictator?

– New Yorker – Dexter Filkins asks can protesters find a path between dictatorship and anarchy in Yemen?

– New York Times – CJ Chivers assesses the state of the Libyan rebels.

– New York Times Magazine – The sudden, bloody transformation of normal citizens into rebels.

– New Yorker – Jon Lee Anderson gives an excellent look at the war on the ground in Libya.

See also: Who Are The Rebels?

– Defense Technology International – Excellent look at the war in the air in Libya.

– StrategyPage – Excellent analysis of the current situation on the ground in Libya.

– National Interest – A surprisingly optimistic global strategic assessment from Robert D. Kaplan and his brother.

– Newsweek – Niall Ferguson writes that most rebellions end in carnage and tyranny. So why are Americans cheering on the Arab revolutionary wave?

– Daily Telegraph – For 500 years Western civilisation was full of self-belief, but now, historian Niall Ferguson argues its dominance is coming to an end.

– Washington Post – Robert D. Kaplan writes that with the toppling of autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia – and other Arab dictators, such as Libya’s, on the ropes – some have euphorically announced the arrival of democracy in the Middle East. But something more subtle may develop.

– New York Times – Thomas Friedman on just how difficult a democratic transition will be for the Middle East.

– Newsweek – Niall Ferguson on Obama’s Egypt debacle and the vacuum it exposes.