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Wikileaks - Dateline Pakistan
In Pakistan, news of Wikileaks's Afghan cache is officially being seen as an affront to Pakistan's dignity/more lies/a general anti-Pakistan conspiracy etc etc. My favourite r...
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Is China Pursuing a Monroe Doctrine for Energy Resources in the South China Sea?
Following up on a story we highlighted here on the blog last Friday, China has issued a stern warning to the United States not to meddle in a longstanding dispute between Chin...
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Midnight Train to Cleveland
Last week I rode Amtrak back home to Ohio for the first time, inspiring me to think a bit more about this means of displacing individual vehicle transport (and commensurate pe...
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Wikileaks' Afghanistan adventure
I've noticed on my Twitter account that opinion on the information contained in the leaked Afghanistan documents obtained and released by Wikileaks varies between "yeah, we kn...
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Scoop!
Here are the things I have learned thus far from the documents released via Wikileaks: Elements within Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) support the...
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Since when did David Frum go to work for the Asian Football Confederation?
Greg Carlstrom noticed that the AFC managed to squeeze Iran, Iraq and North Korea into the same group in January's Asia Cup. (Plus the UAE, which is surely wondering what it d...
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David Ucko on COIN and its Discontents
David Ucko, as careful a student as anyone of the learning process through which the U.S. military has gone since 2001, has written a must-read blog post on Kings of War conce...
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Making friends in Pakistan
Regular readers of this blog wont be surprised to hear that I've been banging on about ways to do something useful in Pakistan. Just for a change, this time, I've been at it o...
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Dwindling Water and Rising Tensions in the Indus Basin
Not surprisingly, water challenges continue to exacerbate tensions between India and Pakistan. Yesterday, The New York Times reported that India, in an effort to feed the insa...
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The Future of the Force and DOD’s Energy Imperative
Last night, we hosted a top secret, off-the-record, “this didn’t happen” energy event with government and private sector experts who have a broad range of energy and national ...
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Meddling with Metals and Resources in Iraq and Afghanistan: How will this End?
I went to an event last Wednesday morning at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) that included a panel with James Yeager, former advisor to Afghanistan Ministry of Mines, Graci...
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This Weekend’s News: From Heatwaves to Proverbs to Transnational Crime
There was plenty of news this weekend after BP announced that the cap that was put in place on Thursday to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf appeared to be holding steady. On...
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And now, we say something nice about someone in the U.S. Congress
If you read the press reports (here, and here), it would appear that my hometown senator, Bob Corker, was on a roll in yesterday's hearings on Afghanistan. Good for him. There...
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What to Do About the Arctic
We’ve spent the week highlighting issues related to the Arctic by discussing a recent book on the subject. I want to end it by looking back to the recommendations geared towar...
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BP and Libya
I was reading an article in the Financial Times this morning about ties between BP and Libya and how they have attracted the attention of U.S. congressmen. Seeing as how my mo...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Charles Emmerson
Following on yesterday’s review of his recent book, The Future History of the Arctic, let’s now turn to a chat with Charles Emmerson. Alex was great enough track him down for ...
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Natural Security Book Review: The Future History of the Arctic
A few months back, my colleague Shannon popped into my office with a review copy of a new book that someone had sent to CNAS. The word “Arctic” popped out in the title, causin...
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Yemen
I am hardly the pro's pro on Yemen, but I want to call two things to your attention. The first is this excellent reported essay from yesterday's New York Times Magazine by Bob...
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The trials and tribulations of a general in Afghanistan
Check out CNAS adviser David Barno's piece in the Financial Times. "In the region, clocks are set to July 2011, a date widely believed to be the start of a rapid US withdrawa...
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Back in Pakistan
I just got back to Pakistan after a two month stay back in London that was initially only supposed to last two weeks. I've been catching up on the stack of newspapers that gre...