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Through Military Engagement, Harnessing Natural Resources for Peacebuilding
On Wednesday, I’ll be at the Wilson Center for a daylong symposium,Harnessing Natural Resources for Peacebuilding: Lessons From U.S. and Japanese Assistance, where I’ll join a...
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Stanford Freshmen To Debate War Ethics In 2011 'Three Books' Program
When Professor Scott Sagan chose "war ethics" as the theme for this year's Three Books selections for incoming freshmen, he knew he had to offer the students some extra guidan...
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Book Review: Steve Tankel's "Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba"
Genius CNAS research assistant Mirv "Matt" Irvine, who knows more about Pakistani militant groups than most, has written a review of my friend Steve Tankel's new book on Lashk...
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This Weekend’s News: Naval Exchanges Irk China over South China Sea
Recent naval exercises between the United States and Vietnam have drawn criticism from China due to disputes between China and Vietnam over the South China Sea. “United States...
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Command Post Episode Five: "The Challenge of Pakistan"
When it comes to fingering trouble spots in the arc of crisis that springs from the Middle East and ranges west to Libya and east to India, No. 1 -- with a bullet -- is invari...
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Women and CNAS
Micah Zenko has a piece up on Foreign Policy's website about gender (im)balance in think tanks. His data (which I assume he took from our website, here) demonstrates that only...
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Command Post Episode Four: "What's Pakistan's Role in Afghanistan Going To Be?"
As the U.S. begins pulling troops out of Afghanistan, is Pakistan going to be a help or a hindrance to stability in the region? John Nagl of the Center for a New American Secu...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Energy (and Not Rare Earths) in the SASC's 2012 NDAA
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s approved its FY2012 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1253), which we’ve been anxiously awaiting. First, I’ll start with an omissio...
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Command Post Episode Three: "Counter-Insurgency versus Counter-Terrorism?"
Since President Obama announced his plan to begin pulling 33,000 troops out of Afghanistan by the end of next summer, there's been a lot of debate over whether this marks the ...
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The Arctic Heats Up: New EO and Survey Expeditions
It appears that DOD updated its Unified Command Plan to assign NORTHCOM the lead on the Arctic just in time. The pace of Arctic-area activity by the United States, Russia and ...
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Command Post Episode Two: "Is Counter-Insurgency Dead?"
Here's our second take on President Obama's Afghan policy in our new video series featuring John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security and your Battleland scribe. We'...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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A Glimpse of the HA/DR Future
While we were out last week, a few news items big enough to make the Early Bird focused on U.S. military responses to natural disasters. Both of these issues are continuing t...
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AWK KIA
As either Reinhold Niebuhr or Brother Mouzone once said, "The game is the game." Ahmed Wali Karzai, long a case study for how U.S. government agencies and departments pull in...
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RLTW
SFC Leroy Petry will receive the Medal of Honor today. Army.mil has a really excellent feature explaining the medal itself, Rangers, and what SFC Petry did to earn the nation'...
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Command Post Episode One: President Obama's evolving strategy for Afghanistan
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce the launch of Command Post, a new video series from CNAS and TIME. The video series will take week-long lo...
By John A. Nagl, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Dan Byman's "A High Price"
I had mentioned on the blog a few weeks back that I was looking forward to reading Dan Byman's A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. I can safel...
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This (Past Week's) News
As we are just getting back from a week of vacation - and I didn't see any particularly jaw-dropping natural security news over the weekend - I'll start the week by just point...
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And now, let me wade on into three ongoing, unrelated controversies with both guns blazing...
Ready? 1. This nonsense about adding new medals to recognize service in Iraq and Afghanistan is just as ridiculous as people have been saying, and for even more reasons. The w...
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On Nation Building
Max Boot's provocative op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in defense of nation-building has been getting people excited and angry. Max: If you want yet another example of how cos...
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Random Thoughts
CNAS is closed for the week, so I am at home catching up on my reading and workouts. A few random thoughts, though: 1. The Dutch are justifiably ashamed of what happened -- an...