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The Problem with Military Writing on Afghanistan
This blog post by longtime friend of the blog Christian Bleuer should be required reading for not just military officers who write on Afghanistan but also we civilian defense ...
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Could Security Concerns Change Global Attitudes with Countries Straddling the Climate Divide?
Could Russian President Medvedev’s recent statement on climate change be the beginning of a change in attitude among skeptical world leaders (and others in their country) that...
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Al Qaeda's Karachi plans
While Pakistan's most immediate disasters (floods, an aircrash, wikileaks, diplomatic squabbles etc) have taken up the headlines, the political killings in Karachi haven't got...
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On UNIFIL (Updated)
Supporters of Israel are used to seeing that country get something decidedly less than a fair shake in the halls of the United Nations in New York, and I sympathize with them....
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On Mosques
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the righ...
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Transboundary Rivers and U.S. National Security
While the historical record shows that no states have ever fought a war over transboundary water resources, such resources have long served as focal points for potential confl...
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Civilian Casualties and ROE in Afghanistan
Check out blog alumna Erin "Charlie" Simpson mixing it up with Brian Katulis, Jake Shapiro, and Sarah Holewinski (of CIVIC) at the New America Foundation. Shapiro's thesis is ...
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Read This Now: The QDR in Perspective
Last week, the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Review Panel released its final report on the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). The five-month review of the QDR was...
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Wikileaks - The Last Word
Ghaith Abdul Ahad breathes a breath of minty fresh air into the fetid Wikileaks debate. It was kind of obviously really; everyone was arguing about Pakistan's links to the Tal...
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The dysfunctional relationship of death
I really serious (heart) the way BBC Urdu's Mohammed Hanif can get his point across about US complicity in the mess that is Pakistan without sounding whiny, crazy or stuck dee...
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This Weekend’s News: Flooding in Pakistan Tests Tempers
Severe flooding throughout Pakistan is exacerbating anti-government anger in many parts of the country, including in Pakistan’s northwest region, particularly the Swat Valley ...
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Diffusion and Counterinsurgency
I start my week with diffusion on my mind: why do tactics, techniques, procedures and strategies migrate from conflict to conflict and from military organization to military o...
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A New Standard for Objective Journalism at the CJR?
I work as a defense policy analyst at a think tank. I get paid to do research and then give informed opinions about issues of interest to policy-makers. Those policy-makers ca...
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Incorporating Direct Action Special Operations into COIN (Updated)
An American friend from the Middle East who has recently spent time covering the war in Afghanistan had the same question I did upon reading this article in the New York Times...
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The EVs are Coming
The past few days witnessed a bit of debate on electric vehicles and related policies after the president swung by Detroit and appeared behind the wheel of a Volt, and GM incr...
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Governance, terrorism and the use of aid in Pakistan
There's more that connects drone attacks and the AirBlue crash than the fact both relate to Pakistani airspace. Huma Yusuf writes in the Dawn newspaper that in Pakistan the th...
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On the Afghans (Updated)
"[Assange] insisted that any risk to informants' lives was outweighed by the overall importance of publishing the information." -- The Times of London As it turns out, I have ...
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Mo' for U on the MOU
This morning you read what drew Will's initial reaction on the DOE-DOD MOU (pdf). I'm starting to worry about his nuclear fetish, but he may be right that that could be one of...
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DOE and DOD to Explore Nuclear Power on Military Bases Question
Yesterday, Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman and Deputy Secretary of Defense Bill Lynn signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate cooperation between the De...
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What an Energy-Hogging China May Mean for the U.S. and Global Politics
This post, written by CNAS colleague Matt Acocella, was originally posted on Tom Ricks's The Best Defense blog. Thanks Matt! The International Energy Agency announced last wee...