"Understanding Kobane," by Christopher Davidson

Christopher Davidson of Durham University and author of After the Sheikhs: the Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies has written an analysis discussing the “broader implications” of the attack on Kobane.

“The UN has scrambled, as best as it can, to retrogressively fit the Iraq bombing campaigns into its narrative, and it will have to do the same with the Syrian airstrikes. But by the time the ‘boots on the ground’ arrive in Syria (probably not before Kobane falls, but maybe on some subsequent date)—which may not be Western or NATO boots, but those of Arab regional NATO client states—we will have read another compelling chapter in the story of the UN’s decline,” Davidson wrote on the Hurst Publishers website.