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Fun Fact of the Day
Dave Kilcullen just pointed out to me that the entire budget for USIP is equal to the amount of money it takes to deploy one platoon of infantry to Afghanistan for a year....
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India’s New Budget: Fighting Food Insecurity
As the attention of the world turns towards the East over the coming decades, India will become an increasingly important power. As a recent CNAS report began, “The emergence ...
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What We Are Reading (And What We Are NOT Reading)
1. Yesterday, it was Gen. Mattis. Today's big cup o' ice water comes from Sec. Gates: In his most pointed comment, Mr. Gates said that “we also have to think about, frankly, t...
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Should the U.S. Move Against Qaddafi? A Logical, But Difficult, Step
The administration is right to ratchet up the pressure on Colonel Qaddafi and his brutal regime. Talking of establishing a no-flight zone, repositioning American military asse...
By Richard Fontaine
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Oman's Renaissance Man
The democratic upheaval across the Arab world has now become so profound and overwhelming -- so unstoppable -- as to engulf arguably the least oppressive and most competent au...
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And today's prize for Biggest Cup of Ice Water goes to ...
... Jim Mattis of CENTCOM! AFP - Enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya would first require bombing the north African nation's air defense systems, top US commander General James...
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Today's Most Important Story That You Will Likely Not Read
An article by Leila Fadel on the Egyptian police ran in today's Washington Post. I probably would not have read it had I not been flipping through the actual paper edition, an...
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In North Korea, Food Shortages Strain Relations
Faced with floods, an exceptionally cold winter, and the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, North Korea has issueddesperate pleas to the international community for food aid....
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Stay classy, Michael Hastings! Part II
Michael Hastings and Rolling Stone had a bad weekend. First, Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washington Post (who is obviously a shill who would never under any circumstances crit...
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This Weekend’s News: Oil, Food and the Unrest in the Middle East
Widespread political unrest continued in Libya over the weekend, prompting President Obama and representatives at the United Nations in New York to weigh in. On Saturday night...
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Arab Democracy And The Return of The Mediterranean World
With the toppling of autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia - and other Arab dictators, such as Libya's, on the ropes - some have euphorically announced the arrival of democr...
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Cyber Sanity
Despite a ballooning federal debt and intense pressures on the federal budget, cyber security has become Washington’s new growth industry. The U.S. government has spent over $...
By Kristin M. Lord & Travis Sharp
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What We Are Reading (And What We Are NOT Reading) UPDATED
What I am reading today:1. I just finished the very solid new Crisis Group report on Egypt. The first 15 pages read like a thriller, and the analysis on the Egyptian military ...
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Quote of the Day: How to Be a Better Analyst
It comes from noted defense policy specialist Al Franken*: While the briefings provided me with a helpful update on what was happening on the ground, I knew that I would have ...
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If a U.S. president could speak honestly about Libya...
Listening to U.S. journalists demand to know what the Obama Administration is doing about Libya is growing tiresome. So much so that it was refreshing to hear the NATO secret...
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Stay classy, Michael Hastings!
One of the ugliest sentences you will ever read in a piece of journalism: Caldwell seemed more eager to advance his own career than to defeat the Taliban. That is not a quot...
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Egypt Trip Report: Part IV
Before 11 February, before the fall of Mubarak, before the crowds in central Cairo torched the headquarters of the ruling party (watching it burn for for three glorious days a...
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Final Frontier Week Part 3: Will the Sun Take Down the Electric Grid?
Over the past few days, we’ve been highlighting how space technology can be used to improve our understanding of climate and environmental change as we examine the security an...
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America Primed
The past century has seen a multi-polar world through the end of World War II, a bipolar world through the end of the Cold War and a dissipating unipolar world since. Economic...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Doing More Without More: Obtaining Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending - Transcript
Today’s constrained economic environment demands that taxpayer dollars be prioritized to meet the demands of the 21st century. On February 22, a week after the defense budget...