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Earthquakes Not Necessarily a Deal Breaker for Nuclear
Nuclear critics are likely to take the most recent earthquake in Indonesia as a new opportunity to protest the construction of a nuclear power plant on Java. Indonesia has a ...
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The Greatest Thing on the Internet Today
This is amazing. Have a great Labor Day weekend, comrades. (h/t @JamesSanna)...
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A Note to Readers
I get several hundred emails a day and often do not have the time to respond to them all. I am by no means some kind of big deal, but I also don't have a personal assistant. S...
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Four Great Books I Have Lost: A Lament
I have searched and searched my libraries both here and in Tennessee for the following books, all four of which I read in 2004 and 2005 and thus probably lost in moves from Be...
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An Open Letter to the Washington Post
Dear Sir or Madam: As one of your readers, what in the world am I supposed to make of an article in yesterday's newspaper claiming that the United States and its allies are ki...
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Natural Insecurity in the Hermit Kingdom
Just beyond the tranquil picturesque landscape of the demilitarized zone on the Korean Peninsula lies modern day North Korea, a bizarre and mysterious world unto itself. The c...
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SHOCKING VIDEO: An Abu Muqawama Exclusive
By now you've all read about the ICBM Charlie Foxtrot that left 50 Minuteman III nuclear missiles on the fritz. We here at Abu Muqawama have been given exclusive access to the...
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The Gun
My review of the great new C.J. Chivers book on the AK-47 is now out from behind the Wilson Quarterly's paywall. You can read it here....
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Guest Contributor Chris Scanzoni: Sudan, Oil and Security
Though the conflict in Darfur has publicly captivated Americans, U.S. officials are vigorously striving to prevent a war in Sudan that promises even greater human costs. A Jan...
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This Weekend's News: Reflections on Our Clean Energy Policies
With midterm elections just over a week away, there are a number of introspective reports on the Obama administration’s domestic policies, including on the clean energy initia...
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Natural Allies: A Blueprint for the Future of U.S.-India Relations | Transcript
In advance of President Obama’s much-awaited trip to India, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released Natural Allies: A Blueprint for the Future of U.S.-India...
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Joao Silva and His Legacy
The great Joao Silva, I have no doubt, will someday recover from his injuries and return to the battlefield, back to work, showing other photojournalists how it's done. But I ...
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Beyond Pakistan's political elites
Commentor Zathras rightly took me to task on a post about India and Pakistan's relationship. Pakistan's long-term interest lies in the two countries settling their differences...
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Joao Silva
I have heard from multiple people that Joao Silva, one of the finest combat photojournalists in the history of photojournalism, was severely wounded today in Arghandab Distric...
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Rejuvenating Strategic Partnership
In 1998, then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee asserted that India and the United States were "natural allies in the quest for a better future for the world in the 21st cen...
By Richard Fontaine
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Natural Allies: A Blueprint for the Future of U.S.-India Relations | Video
In advance of President Obama’s much-awaited trip to India, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released Natural Allies: A Blueprint for the Future of U.S.-India R...
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The Most Important Post on Wikileaks You Will Read Today
That title is a blatant attempt to draw your attention to the thing you cared about yesterday: reconciliation and negotiations in Afghanistan. I have a new piece on ForeignPol...
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The US-Pak gap pt 2
A couple of people have made the point that I skipped over India in my overview of Pakistan-US relations. It's a fair point. India is a post by itself (hence the new post). In...
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Resources in the Strategic Asia Series
A few weeks back a few colleagues and I went to the release event for this year’s edition of the Strategic Asia series, released annually by the National Bureau of Asian Resea...
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The US-Pak gap
"I'm curious, though, to hear from my Islamabad-based blogging partner how he would square the circle facing U.S. policy-makers." Right, well... hmm... I feel slightly fraudul...