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While you weren't looking ...
... Saudi Arabia and the UAE more or less invaded Bahrain. Just thought you would want to know. The New York Times has assembled a really smart crew of scholars to weigh in on...
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Events from Around Town: How does Population Affect National Security?
Yesterday, the Wilson Center held a book launch for The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security with author Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba. Deputy Under Secretary of De...
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Comment of the Day
The great Trudy Rubin, whose column I used to read while living in Philadelphia, weighed in on Egypt: Having recently returned from Cairo, I say thank you, thank you, for poin...
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For Intervention in Libya: Two Views
It's not as fun to poke holes in arguments for military intervention in Libya when they are advanced by people like Anne-Marie Slaughter and Eliot Cohen, who should basically ...
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Wars and the Service Chiefs
Anyone who has been watching the war in Afghanistan for the past two years knows that ISAF, having focused on southern Afghanistan for the past 18 months, now aspires to shift...
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This Weekend’s News: After the Quake
The devastating 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan on Friday and the subsequent tsunami that crippled several of the island nation’s coast communities – even sweeping across the...
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The Order of Battle
Anthony Shadid, who has seen a war or two, from Libya: Only days ago, rebels were boldly promising to march on Surt, Colonel Qaddafi’s hometown, then on to Tripoli, where opp...
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Investigating American Muslims
We need to investigate radicalization in the United States. Peter King's hearings today, though, endanger U.S. counter-terrorism and counter-radicalization efforts in two ways...
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Stay classy, Michael Hastings! Part III
Well, hopefully this will end the furor over an ugly and now thoroughly discredited hit piece. In a more just world, Rolling Stone would conduct an internal investigation to d...
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The Rebels Love Us, Right?
I was looking through the Sinjar documents (.pdf) today because I remembered (incorrectly, as it turns out) that Benghazi had sent more foreign fighters to Iraq than any other...
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Quote of the Day: "What Do You Pay Us For?" Edition
Boy, if I were an intelligence analyst working on North Africa right now, I would be steaming. Q: Hey, it's actually Jake Tapper. Just, Tom, if you could comment on -- DNI C...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Uncertain Rise of China's MilitaryChina’s growing defense budget – in addition to its claim of sovereignty in the South China Sea, anti-satellite weapons testing, and interest in cyber military capabilities – ...
By Abraham M. Denmark
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Satellites You Need to Know: Climb Aboard the A-Train
Today we are kicking off a new occassional series, "Satellites You Need to Know," which, as you may expect, explores satellites that we think you should know. It's important t...
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China’s Natural Security for the Next Five Years
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivered a speech on China’s five year plan at the Eleventh Party Congress on Saturday. (The Wall Street Journal provided a transcript here.) His r...
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Brigitte Gabriel, the SLA, and Khiam
Here's a question for the editors of the New York Times: when you guys ran your profile of Brigitte Gabriel today, did your reporter not know of or just choose not to report o...
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In Asia, an Opportunity to Strengthen Long-term Relationships though Natural Resource Cooperation
China is experiencing one of the worst droughts in 60 years experts say, in part a consequence of the Asian giant’s insatiable appetite for energy and water resources that are...
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The Pale Blue Dot
Many thanks to the reader of this blog who pointed me toward this moving video of the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia set to Carl Sagan reading from "Earth: The Pale Blue Dot."...
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Wael Ghonim and Wadah Khanfar at TED2011
I'm still waiting to see and hear Stan McChrystal's talk....
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Quote of the Day II
From a Libyan shaking his head at the behavior of the British government: This is no way to conduct yourself during an uprising....
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Quote of the Day: Op-Ed Edition (and an excuse to remind Tom Friedman why we're still in Afghanistan)
Here's Nick Kristof in Saturday's Times: It’s a sophisticated argument that a column can’t do justice to... I'm not the only one who read that phrase and smiled. What a relie...