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Dakota Meyer
Bing West, of course, described it the most eloquently: For a man to charge into fire once requires grit that is instinctive in few men; to do so a second time, now knowing wh...
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Read This Now: Joint Investigation Report on BP Oil Spill
Yesterday, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released two reports based on the findings from the joint...
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Command Post: The Human Toll Taken by a Decade of War
Just how worn out are our troops because of non-stop combat since 9/11? To what degree has that contributed to problems like PTSD, family breakups and suicide in the ranks? T...
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NATO-Taliban Twitter Fight! (Or, The Enduring Wisdom of Ecclesiastes 1:9)
The media is fascinated by the Twitter fight between the Taliban and the NATO forces in Afghanistan. Really, though, aside from the medium itself, this is nothing new in warfa...
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Implementing DOD Energy Programs Requires Navigating the Red Tape
Successfully implementing new energy programs at DOD installations often requires a sophisticated understanding of state regulatory bodies and coordination with public utility...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
This week in Washington, a conference at the National Defense University has gathered some of the world's leading experts on terrorism. A few nights ago, I joined some of them...
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Navy Sheds Light on Arctic Exercises
Ever wonder what the U.S. Navy does during its annual ICEX training in the Arctic? All Hands Television has the scoop in this video of the 2011 exercises that runs less than 1...
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Today's Worst Use of the Passive Voice
From a Washington Post staff editorial: An incident in which five Egyptian guards were killed when Israeli forces pursued terrorists crossing the border helped to trigger the ...
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On Platoon Leadership
George MacDonald Fraser, in his memoir Quartered Safe Out Here, already has one of my favorite quotes (.pdf) about platoon leadership in combat: If you want to know how scare...
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Command Post: "How Did the U.S. Military Retool Itself Post-9/11?"
In the decade after 9/11, just how much did the U.S. military have to recalibrate to fight the wars it found itself launching in Afghanistan and, 18 months later, in Iraq? Thi...
By Eric Schmitt
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What We Still Don't Know About the Kabul Attacks
Tuesday, Sept. 13's dramatic attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO compounds in Kabul is sure to garner many headlines and will sow doubts about the ability of the Afghan nation...
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Pentagon Must Reshape Future Role of Private Contractors
The recent report by the U.S. Commission on Wartime Contracting, which examined contracting abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan, understandably focused on the loss of up to $60 bil...
By Richard Fontaine
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Special Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Q&A with Thomas Hegghammer
If you are like me, you mostly avoided the television and the op-ed pages today. I am not sure it is entirely healthy that we force ourselves, as a society, to grieve anew ten...
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Finland and Norway Trip Report
A few weeks back, I was asked by the U.S. embassies in Helsinki and Oslo to visit each city to lead a series of informal roundtable discussions and particpate in formal think ...
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Two Great Pieces of Long-Form Journalism
1. Jeremy Scahill in the Nation. 2. Elizabeth Rubin in Tablet. Have a great weekend digesting those two challenging pieces....
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Counterstrike: The Untold Story Of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda - Video
In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. It soon became clear, however, that this...
By Eric Schmitt
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Command Post: "Did the U.S. Overreact to 9/11?"
It's a fair question as the 10th anniversary of the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon looms. After all, it was the most shocking macro-event most Ame...
By Eric Schmitt
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Read This Now: Crunch Time for U.S. Science
Our friend and colleague Dr. Jay Gulledge has a terrific piece in the latest issue of Nature arguing that researchers must make a stronger case for funding climate science res...
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The Future…It’s Not.
I have to admit that I was disappointed with this Foreign Policy “The Future is Now” report predicting a global oil production shift back to the Americas. The author, Amy Myer...
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Command Post: "How Has U.S. National Security Changed Since 9/11?"
It's hard to believe -- at least for some of us -- that it has been a decade since 9/11. Before then, covering the military meant going out to the National Training Center at ...
By Eric Schmitt