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"War is Kind"
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind,Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.Hoarse, booming drums of t...
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"The Young British Soldier"
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceasedEre 'e's fit for to serve as a sol...
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"Back"
They ask me where I've been,And what I've done and seen.But what can I replyWho know it wasn't I,But someone just like me,Who went across the seaAnd with my head and handsKill...
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"Suicide in the Trenches"
I knew a simple soldier boyWho grinned at life in empty joy,Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,And whistled early with the lark.In winter trenches, cowed and glum,With cr...
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"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black f...
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CNAS, NPR and the Indian Ocean
Last night, CNAS hosted the official launch of Robert Kaplan’s new book, Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. As Nate Fick said in his opening remarks, ...
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Two Quick Links for Veterans
Veterans Day is approaching, and I wanted to post two quick links that all you Iraq and Afghanistan veterans should check out. The first is the new blog at Veterans Affairs, w...
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In the Indian Ocean, Hints Toward the Future of American Power
The twentieth century witnessed Europe unfold as the center of gravity for world history. And in this still early century, the Middle East and South-Central Asia have been foc...
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This Weekend’s News: As President Obama Heads to Indonesia, U.S. Firms Look On
With the president preparing to depart India for Indonesia tomorrow, I thought it was appropriate that The Washington Post had a piece over the weekend on Indonesia, a country...
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Attention, Upstate New York Readers: Your Favorite Bloggers, Together for One Night Only, Next Tuesday
The alternate title Londonstani and I suggested was Two Dope Boyz [in a Cadillac]. Skidmore passed on that idea, but this talk should nonetheless be a lot of fun (for us, if n...
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Go Japan! And CNAS!
On Monday, we mentioned the successful conference on the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Japan through last week. While I haven’t yet had time to read the detai...
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We Need an Indian Civilian Surge
President Barack Obama visits India this weekend amid high expectations for the future of the U.S.-India relationship. Yet of the many issues that will be on his plate -- civi...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense Policy and the New Congress: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss (Updated)
I wrote earlier that this blog is not the go-to place for analysis on what last night's election results mean for defense policy, but it then occurred to me that my office is ...
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The United States & China: Escalating Tensions at the UNFCCC or a New Geo-Political Reality?
Making a guest appearance on the blog today is the talented Alex Stark, CNAS natural security veteran who now spends her free time traveling to China (last month) and Cancun (...
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In Praise of Ike Skelton
It was pretty obvious that the Republicans were going to win the House of Representatives and that Buck McKeon would be the new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee....
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Big Idea of the Day: Sectarianism Alive and Well in Lebanon Edition
From "The Role of Sectarianism in the Allocation of Public Expenditure in Postwar Lebanon" by Nisreen Salti and Jad Chaaban: A preliminary analysis of the poverty, education, ...
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Picture of the Day: Love is a Battlefield
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Big Idea of the Day
This relatively easy-to-understand paragraph is from that article I mentioned below: Civil wars are military contests where each side's military capacity shapes the type of mi...
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Two Quick Reading Recommendations
Two recent articles made me think. The first, which is the most accesible (in more ways than one), is Richard Betts' review essay on Huntington, Fukuyama and Mearsheimer in th...
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What the 2010 USMC "Commandant's Planning Guidance" Says about Resources
I'm going through my backlogged email from my week out of the office. While I was gone, my officemate, CNAS's USMC Senior Military Fellow LtCol Paul Deutsch was kind enough to...