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Contents<br />
What would Curzon do? David Kilcullen<br />
3 How Pakistan can deal with the extremist threat 12<br />
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The space age is yet to come Mary Wakefield<br />
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Great adva<br />
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Johannesburg<br />
s Johannesburg slid deeper<br />
into recession, I put in a bid<br />
for a rundow<a title="The Spectator- Sample Issue page 1" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wqdttt&pageid=1"> ROD LI D D L E : TW TT E R A N D FA C E B O O K A</a> R E F O R M I D D L E -AG E D N A R C I S S I S T S I 18 JU L Y 2009 www.spectator.co.uk £2.95 Let’s steamroller the Taleban DA V I D KI L C U L L
<a title="The Spectator- Sample Issue page 2" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wqdttt&pageid=2"> TheSpectator,22OldQueenStreet,LondonSW1H9HP Telep</a>hone02079610200;Fax02079610250;www.spectator.co.uk The front line T he Afghan conflict is a war of Afghanistan. This has
<a title="The Spectator- Sample Issue page 3" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wqdttt&pageid=3"> Contents What would Curzon do? David Kilcul</a>len 3 How Pakistan can deal with the extremist threat 12 7 The space age is yet to come Mary Wakefield 8 Great adva
<a title="The Spectator- Sample Issue page 4" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wqdttt&pageid=4"> diary A </a> Johannesburg s Johannesburg slid deeper into recession, I put in a bid for a rundow
<a title="The Spectator- Sample Issue page 5" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wqdttt&pageid=5"> The specTaTor’s noTes I t may we</a>ll be true that some equipment given to British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan is inadequate. It
<a title="The Spectator- Sample Issue page 6" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wqdttt&pageid=6"> Tears for the fallen DIARY OF A NOTTING HILL NO</a>BODY By Tamzin Lightwater Monday I wonder if Gary has Gwyneth Paltrow's number? No reason he would have, obvious- ly, but just on the
<a title="The Spectator- Sample Issue page 7" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wqdttt&pageid=7"> ForanswerstotheAfghan-Pakistan conflict,ask:whatw</a>ouldCurzondo? David Kilcullen, the influential counter-insurgency strategist, seeks inspiration in Curzon's experienceasViceroyofIndiato
<a title="The Spectator- Sample Issue page 8" href="http://www.zmag.dk/showmag.php?mid=wqdttt&pageid=8"> hearted performance. The Pakistani Taleban had be</a>en steadily expanding their control across Malakand Division (the northern third of North-West Frontier Province) and, after heavy-handedarmyoperation
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