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Energy (and Not Rare Earths) in the SASC's 2012 NDAA
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s approved its FY2012 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1253), which we’ve been anxiously awaiting. First, I’ll start with an omissio...
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Command Post Episode Four: "What's Pakistan's Role in Afghanistan Going To Be?"
As the U.S. begins pulling troops out of Afghanistan, is Pakistan going to be a help or a hindrance to stability in the region? John Nagl of the Center for a New American Secu...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Command Post Episode Three: "Counter-Insurgency versus Counter-Terrorism?"
Since President Obama announced his plan to begin pulling 33,000 troops out of Afghanistan by the end of next summer, there's been a lot of debate over whether this marks the ...
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The Arctic Heats Up: New EO and Survey Expeditions
It appears that DOD updated its Unified Command Plan to assign NORTHCOM the lead on the Arctic just in time. The pace of Arctic-area activity by the United States, Russia and ...
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Command Post Episode Two: "Is Counter-Insurgency Dead?"
Here's our second take on President Obama's Afghan policy in our new video series featuring John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and your Battleland scribe. We'...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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RLTW
SFC Leroy Petry will receive the Medal of Honor today. Army.mil has a really excellent feature explaining the medal itself, Rangers, and what SFC Petry did to earn the nation'...
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AWK KIA
As either Reinhold Niebuhr or Brother Mouzone once said, "The game is the game." Ahmed Wali Karzai, long a case study for how U.S. government agencies and departments pull in...
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A Glimpse of the HA/DR Future
While we were out last week, a few news items big enough to make the Early Bird focused on U.S. military responses to natural disasters. Both of these issues are continuing t...
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This (Past Week's) News
As we are just getting back from a week of vacation - and I didn't see any particularly jaw-dropping natural security news over the weekend - I'll start the week by just point...
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Dan Byman's "A High Price"
I had mentioned on the blog a few weeks back that I was looking forward to reading Dan Byman's A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. I can safel...
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Command Post Episode One: President Obama's evolving strategy for Afghanistan
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce the launch of Command Post, a new video series from CNAS and TIME. The video series will take week-long lo...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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And now, let me wade on into three ongoing, unrelated controversies with both guns blazing...
Ready? 1. This nonsense about adding new medals to recognize service in Iraq and Afghanistan is just as ridiculous as people have been saying, and for even more reasons. The w...
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On Nation Building
Max Boot's provocative op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in defense of nation-building has been getting people excited and angry. Max: If you want yet another example of how cos...
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Random Thoughts
CNAS is closed for the week, so I am at home catching up on my reading and workouts. A few random thoughts, though: 1. The Dutch are justifiably ashamed of what happened -- an...
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Happy Fourth
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Summer Reading List: Rising Tide
Among the books on my shelf that have sat there for years, awaiting their turn at the head of my queue, was John M. Barry’s 1997 tome Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood ...
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Summer Reading List: Player One
As CNAS is on vacation this week, we continue our Summer Reading List recommendations. Enjoy! You’ll never guess who is writing about peak oil these days. Douglas Coupland. Ye...
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Summer Reading List: Scientific American, For the Last Time
CNAS is closed this week. We bloggers have dispersed far away from Washington. For those who must spend their days at desks, this week we bring you our second Summer Reading L...
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Thank You
I would be remiss if I did not say anything about Sec. Gates today. I have never met the man but greatly appreciated the way in which he brought greater accountability to the ...
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On Drones
I just finished Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann's essay on drone strikes in Foreign Affairs and recommend it. I especially agreed with the concluding recommendations, whi...