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A Cancun Update: Elusive Progress in Bonn
Squeezed in amongst last week’s apocalyptic news reports on the floods, fires and mudslides that Christine mentioned yesterday, the BBC reported that international climate cha...
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Muqawama, Muwamara, etc.
Elias Muhanna, whose blog I followed yesterday while simultaneously listening to the speech by Sec. Gates -- honestly, can't Hassan Nasrallah and Bob Gates coordinate when the...
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Oh, that's messed up...
The news that the Department of Defense is shuttering the Joint Forces Command was just broken to JFCOM's public affairs officer ... by a reporter. Ouch. Rumors of JFCOM's dem...
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This Weekend’s News: Wow, There Sure Was a Lot of Bad News This Weekend
This is shaping up to be a summer marked by its extensive natural disasters around the world. In addition to the heat waves, projections hinting at a bad hurricane season in t...
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Two Quick Friday Hits on Lebanon
1. Regarding those asking whether or not soldier within the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) might be sympathetic toward Hizballah and their operations in the South: one of the qui...
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Pakistani analysis on extremism, its causes and solutions
Yesterday, I attended a conference on counter radicalisation strategies organised by the Pak Institute of Peace Studeis (PIPS) and the United States Institute for Peace (USIP)...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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...