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Abu Muqawama Salutes ...
... GEN George Casey. Military historians and other security studies scholars will long debate what GEN Casey did or did not do in Iraq from 2004 until 2007, but that is not t...
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From the Dept. of Wonderful Advice (Pot & Kettle Edition)
From an anonymous Pakistani official: [You] can’t have us as your ally and treat us as your adversary at the same time. It would be a lot easier to trust the ISI if our own i...
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Book Review: Treasures of the Earth by Saleem Ali
Saleem Ali’s 2009 book, Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, arrived at my desk at just the right time last fall. I’ve been working on a new report on...
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Really, Google?
So Google chooses today to celebrate the achievements of a brutal totalitarian regime (that one of its founders fled!) instead of the 150th anniversary of the war that freed t...
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Military Spending Must Be Part of the Deficit Debate
The budget compromise reached by the White House and Congress this weekend included a "historic amount of cuts," as House Speaker John Boehner and Senate majority leader Harry...
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Japan’s New Deal Opportunity
Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered office in the midst of an historic internal disaster, the Great Depression. But although FDR exuded the confidence to inspire a nation, he l...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Abu Muqawama Goes Jihad on the VA (UPDATED)
I have a lot of love for the hard-working people at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, but when Foreign Policy asked me what parts of the government should shut down and stay shut...
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The Crisis in Civil-Military Relations That Wasn't
When the president fired Gen. Stan McChrystal last year, a chorus of pundits rushed to proclaim the United States faced a crisis in civil-military relations. I do not want to ...
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This Weekend’s News: A New Biofuel Boom?
On Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Agriculture will offer grants and loans to gas station owners to install “new ‘blender pumps’ so drivers c...
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The REAL Reason We Were Serving Bud Light Lime at Friday's Hail & Farewell*
I just want to say, in all seriousness, that I am very proud my employer is partnering with the White House and Gen. Stan McChrystal in a new initiative in support of military...
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High-Tech 1, Low-Tech 0
Americans have what the Irish scholar Theo Farrell has called a technology fetish in our strategic culture. As someone who has spent most of my life fighting in and studying l...
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Events From Around Town: A Rare Earth Crisis, or No Rare Earth Crisis? That is the Question.
Yesterday, the American Enterprise Institute hosted a two panel discussion on whether there is “A Rare-Earth Crisis?” The panelists came from diverse backgrounds and were each...
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The Heretical Question of the Day
Here's a question for NATO officials: far be it for me to stick up for the ethics and values of the fighting forces of Moammar Gadhafi, but your description of "using human sh...
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Beware The Void Under Tyranny
With fighting near the end between the armies of two presidential aspirants in Ivory Coast, that country is at the bottom of a descent that began in 1993 with the death of the...
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Financial Hardball: Corralling Terrorists and Proliferators
CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow David Asher delivered a testimony to the Congressional Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade for the U.S. House Committee on F...
By David Asher
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The Challenges of Post-Gadhafi Libya
Late last night, I linked to Mona el-Ghobashy's excellent article in which she identifies just what Egypt's people won -- or rather, won back -- through their uprising: The ge...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Saleem Ali
This week I had the pleasure of doing a 5 Questions interview with great thinker Saleem Ali. If you don’t yet know his work, you will soon. Recently named a Young Global Leade...
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Two and a Half Months Later
Some great Egypt analysis by Mona el-Ghabashy: The genius of the Egyptian revolution is its methodical restoration of the public weal. The uprising restored the meaning of pol...
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Stan McChrystal at TED
Ignore his messed-up voice: there is a lot of good stuff in here on the challenges of military leadership today:...
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Events from Around Town: The Chairman’s Perspective on Natural Security
Given that there is never a shortage of immediate crises monopolizing their time and energy, it is easy for policymakers to give less attention to the threats looming just bey...