Kimberly Kagan has posted an excellent analysis of the security situation in Iraq on today's DAILY STANDARD. You can click on the image to download the pdf. Kimberly Kagan is a military historian who has taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Yale University, Georgetown University, and American University. She is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University, where she teaches the History of Military Operations;an affiliate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University; and a visiting fellow at Yale International Security Studies. Bottom line: Kagan knows her stuff, and the report provides the kind of analysis that is so desperately lacking in the mainstream media's "bomb-a-day" coverage. You can look for updates from Kagan at THE DAILY STANDARD every other week, and of course we will link to it here as well.