Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 27, 2015

Peter Grier, CSM: US warship in South China Sea: What's at stake?

The US often uses its warships in freedom-of-navigation exercises. This patrol was public, and meant to be so, in a way that such moves usually aren't.

The passage of a United States Navy destroyer near one of China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea may mark the reemergence of traditional geopolitical tensions in a region long preoccupied with domestic economic concerns.

In other words, this is about much more than a warship far from home sailing within a few miles of a bunch of rocks.

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 27, 2015

US Freedom of Navigation Patrols in the South China Sea: China Reacts -- Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat

Russian Casualties Would Take a Toll on Assad -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

Path to Peace in Syria Runs Through Moscow -- Josh Cohen, Moscow Times

Let the Russians bleed in Syria while we focus on containing Jihadists -- Mike Pietrucha and Jeremy Renken, War On The Rocks

The History of No-Fly Zones Doesn’t Bode Well for Syria -- Stephen Wrage and Scott Cooper, Defense One

ISIS after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? -- Andrew Bowen, Al Arabiya

White House: Our Iraq, Syria Strategy Doesn’t Fit on a ‘Reasonably Sized Bumper Sticker’ -- Bridget Johnson, PJ Media

What Israeli leaders think America gets wrong about the world -- Max Fisher, VOX

State Department Still Without New Plan to Fight Drugs in Afghanistan -- Paul D. Shinkman, US News and World Report

Putin’s Coup: How the Russian leader used the Ukraine crisis to consolidate his dictatorship. -- Ben Judah, Politico

The end of the Merkel era is within sight -- Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

Is Bosnia Headed for Civil War? -- James Lyon, Foreign Policy

Poland's Risky Choice -- Bloomberg editorial

The EU Elite Should Listen to Poland -- Telegraph editorial

Can Argentina's Next President Escape Kirchnerismo? -- Mac Margolis, Bloomberg