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You realize they've never actually won a war, right?
If you've been following the reaction of Pakistanis to the killing of Osama bin Laden over the past week, it has been very difficult to not be impressed by folks like Mosharra...
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Roundtable: Blame Pakistan?
Click here to watch the video. CNAS Senior Fellow Tom Ricks appears on This Week with Christiane Amanpour to discuss U.S.-Pakistan relations with George Will, Liz Cheney and...
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Summer Reading List: Foreign Policy’s “Food Issue”
When the articles in the new Foreign Policy “Food Issue” first hit my RSS feed about a week back, I snidely Tweeted: "Doesn't look like FP's food issue will stack up to Wired'...
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Summer Reading List: Future Faces of War
A few months back, we hosted Dr. Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba at CNAS to discuss her recent book, The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security. This should be one of th...
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Future of Al-Qaeda
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But seriously, which one of you was Osama bin Laden? (Updated)
Apparently my blog had a regular reader in Abbottabad. Anyone want to take a guess as to which nut-job Abu Muqawama commenter was really Osama bin Laden? Update: Solved! It wa...
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About that bin Laden joke...
Look at the face of the president at 2:21. Look at the laughing face of Sec. Gates just before him. This monologue is so great to watch in retrospect, knowing Gates and Obama ...
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Summer Reading List 2011
It’s getting warm outside. Tornadoes have already devastated swaths of the country. Gas prices are climbing. Summer is nearly upon us. And as we care deeply about how you spen...
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From Desert One to Abbottabad
I turns out there is some interest about this bin Laden fellow and what his death means, so I will be chained to the leg of a chair in a local coffee house, writing on deadlin...
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MSNBC Interviews Tom Ricks on Obama's Strategy to Find bin Laden
In an interview on MSNBC, CNAS Senior Fellow Tom Ricks discusses the differences between the Obama and Bush administrations in plans to locate Osama bin Laden. Watch the vide...
By Thomas E. Ricks
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This Weekend's News:
This weekend's natural security news consisted of just a few pieces barely worth mentioning. The big news is obvious, I'm sure most of you were up much of the night watching t...
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Osama
Some of this blog's readers have probably been checking to see if I had any reaction to last night's news, and I apologize for not writing anything until now. I received the n...
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Osama bin Laden Evidence Trove: U.S. Hopes to Follow al Qaeda's Money Trail
Watch the video here. U.S agents charged with disrupting and dismantling al Qaeda are hoping Sunday's harrowing raid of Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound yields valuable fi...
By John A. Nagl
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A New Kind Of Defense
The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant U.S. victory to date in the war on terrorism. Its full consequences may not be known for months or even years, but the ...
By David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Stop Trying to Renegotiate the SOFA
Over the past few weeks, top U.S. officials have started to publicly press the Iraqi government to decide whether it will allow thousands of American troops to stay in the cou...
By Brian Burton
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"Night Dragon" Example of Cyber Attacks
For my final note to Smart Grid Cyber Security Week, I wanted to draw your attention to "Night Dragon," a cyber attack on energy companies which a pal brought to my attention ...
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What Books on Foreign Affairs Should a U.S. Senator Read?
Daniel Drezner, chuckling along with the rest of us at a passage in Ryan Lizza's profile of the president's foreign policy, has a great challenge: what books should a junior s...
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A Prayer for the South
I had grown used to spending my days digesting casualty reports from the Arabic-speaking world -- 14 killed in Homs, 36 killed in and around Damascus, etc. Today, by contrast,...
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The DOD-DOE MOU & the Grid
At a White House Energy Security Summit on Tuesday the Departments of Defense and Energy reaffirmed their commitment to the joint memorandum of understanding they signed in Ju...
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Challenges for Obama's New National Security Team are Huge
President Barack Obama's national security shake-up will pit some of America's most able practitioners against some of the nation's most intractable challenges. The forceful, ...
By Patrick M. Cronin