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MG Jeffrey Buchanan, USA Discussion on Operation New Dawn: Bridge to an Enduring Partnership - Remarks
In light of the impending end of the United States Forces–Iraq mission this December, Major General Jeffrey Buchanan, USA, Director of Strategic Effects for United States Forc...
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In the Arctic and South China Sea, U.S. Policymakers to Grapple with Similar Challenges
As my short time here at CNAS is just about over – having focused primarily on South China Sea research – it seems as though I will be leaving as the oil and gas rich Arctic r...
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MG Jeffrey Buchanan, USA Discussion on Operation New Dawn: Bridge to an Enduring Partnership - Q&A
Iraq has the potential to become a pivotal strategic partner for the United States and its allies in the region. But Iraq is also undergoing its democratic transition and its ...
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Summer Reading
I am off for a week's vacation on the family farm in East Tennessee and will be away from the blog during that time, so I wanted to highlight a few reading suggestions while I...
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Budget Cuts Part III: Pre-funding Climate Catastrophe
In December 2010, the Obama administration released a bipartisan report from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform that, among other things, recommended ...
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War of the Camps, Revisted
The following is the unedited, full text of Hizballah's statement condemning the Syrian Navy's shelling of the Palestinian refugee camp at ar-Ramel: ...
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Did Pakistan Sell Out America?
The strategic partnership between the United States and Pakistan appears once again to be careening toward the brink of self-destruction. Reports that Pakistan may have given ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Reading the Israel Summer
I am very reluctant, as I have written, to provide any analysis of Israeli domestic politics based on such limited time spent in Israel and an inability to speak Hebrew and th...
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This Weekend’s News: In Pakistan, a Notable Reminder
Yesterday, Ajay Chhibber, assistant secretary general of the United Nations, assistant administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and UNDP regional directo...
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A Question for Rick Perry
When Sen. Barack Obama was running for president, it emerged that one of his informal advisors, former Clinton official Rob Malley, had met with members of Hamas as part of hi...
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Israel, the United States, and Counterinsurgency
Yesterday, I wrapped up a really fun and interesting trip to Israel and, briefly, the Palestinian Territories. For a long time, I have insisted that there is really no substan...
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Patience
I just returned from Israel today and will have a few days in Washington this week before traveling to the Holy Land* with my wife for some vacation on the family farm. I will...
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Command Post: "Does It Make Sense for Obama to Bar U.S. Combat Boots in Libya?"
War, first and foremost, is a collection of choices. When President Obama ruled out the use of U.S. military boots on the ground inside Libya, it may have made political sense...
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Command Post: "Why Did It Take the U.S. So Long to Recognize the Libyan Rebels?"
After five months of bombing the government of Muammar Gadaffi, the U.S. finally recognized Libya's rebel forces. Was this the right decision, and, if so -- why did it take so...
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34 Years of Successful COIN, Down the Drain
I just read a sentence in the International Herald Tribune that will have no doubt caused some British Army veterans a high degree of consternation: [Water cannons] have not p...
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Book Review: Hack the Planet
Geoengineering – intentionally altering the climate, often discussed as a means of countering the already-in-process warming from greenhouse gases – has long been a favorite t...
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Command Post: "Why Can't NATO Whup Libya?"
As NATO's war against Libya nears its sixth-month anniversary, there's one question that keeps churning over and over again in what passes for my mind: why can't the most powe...
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Budget Cuts Part II: Foreign Aid
It seems inevitable that the soft power side of the natural security world will take a hit in the upcoming round of budget cuts. Foreign operations already took sizable hits e...
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Command Post: "Why Did the U.S. Hand Off the Libyan War to NATO?"
Why did the U.S. military agree to do the "heavy lifting" in the opening days of the war with Libya -- launching long-range bombing strikes from the continental U.S., among ot...
By John A. Nagl
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Budget Cuts & DOD Energy
We’d be remiss (and possibly lose all cred as think-tankers) if we didn’t ponder what the debt crisis and upcoming budget cuts meant for the issues of focus for this blog. To ...