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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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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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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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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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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...
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Happy Fourth
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Summer Reading List: Rising Tide
Among the books on my shelf that have sat there for years, awaiting their turn at the head of my queue, was John M. Barry’s 1997 tome Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood ...
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Summer Reading List: Player One
As CNAS is on vacation this week, we continue our Summer Reading List recommendations. Enjoy! You’ll never guess who is writing about peak oil these days. Douglas Coupland. Ye...
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Summer Reading List: Scientific American, For the Last Time
CNAS is closed this week. We bloggers have dispersed far away from Washington. For those who must spend their days at desks, this week we bring you our second Summer Reading L...
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Thank You
I would be remiss if I did not say anything about Sec. Gates today. I have never met the man but greatly appreciated the way in which he brought greater accountability to the ...
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On Drones
I just finished Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann's essay on drone strikes in Foreign Affairs and recommend it. I especially agreed with the concluding recommendations, whi...
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When STL is not an airport in Missouri
As the names of those indicted by the special tribunal for Lebanon begin to leak out, please go to Qifa Nabki for invaluable background reading on the tribunal itself....
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Summer Minerals Reading List: “Elements of Security: Mitigating the Risks of U.S. Dependence on Critical Minerals” and “Rare Earth Elements in National Defense: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options”
Not surprisingly there has been greater attention to critical minerals recently, including potential U.S. vulnerability with dependence on rare earth elements. The increased f...
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Back in the USSA, Part IV: Readings
There are two items of note I want to highlight to which I was not able to draw attention while traveling. The first is this post by my friend Steve Negus on Issandr's blog on...
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With U.S. Troops Continuing to Drawdown from Iraq, Many Challenges Remain
As the U.S. military continues its drawdown of troops from Iraq – with the last of those troops to leave by December 31, 2011 – policymakers and analysts are likely to raise c...