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Quote of the Day (Crazy Guantanamo Stories Edition)
By last summer, staff were pointing to Butter Pecan flavored Ensure as popular with the chair-shackled captives. Flavor made no difference going down, one nurse explained, but...
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MDGs for the Already Developed World
Christine and Will are spending this week in Hamburg, Germany, where they will be leading a game simulation based on international climate change negotiations coming up this D...
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How to Patronize
I like both Anatol Lieven and Tom Ricks and always listen to them both on matters related to Afghanistan, even when I disagree with them. (I currently disagree, for example, w...
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CNAS Hosts Discussion on the Future of the U.S.-Iraq Relationship
On Tuesday, August 17, 2010, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted a pertinent discussion on the future of the U.S. relationship with Iraq with CNAS CEO Nathani...
By Nathaniel C. Fick
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Quote of the Day (Transparency Edition)
It's very hard work to run an organization, let alone one that's constantly being spied upon and sued. Julian Assange, on why his organization does not publish donor informat...
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This Weekend's News: Another Side of the Same Stories
Crop failures during the 2005 food shortage in Niger, as compared to 2004. This year's crisis is predicted to be worse. Photo: NASA-Earth Observatory For the past few weeks, ...
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Defining the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq (Update)
Here's a fun project for the readership. This should keep you busy through the weekend. I was reading a book chapter by Stathis Kalyvas (.pdf) and came across his definition o...
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On Afghan Marksmanship
I saw this Wall Street Journal article on a Taliban sniper is the most-viewed article on WSJ.com. It's worth pointing out, then, that the myth of the great Afghan marksman is ...
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Master Debaters
My friend Mike Horowitz -- author of this great new book -- has a really funny, well, debate up on Slate with Mark Oppenheimer on high school and college debating. Some of you...
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As I told Lt. Gen. Barno this morning, "Sir, this proves we were winning when WE left."
Drew Conway was promoted to the faculty of New York University (uh, by the New York Times, at least), for these neat charts he helped make using the Wikileaks data. Visualis...
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Climate Risks: Lessons from 2010’s Extreme Weather
This post was originally published yesterday by the Climate Compass blog at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change where Dr. Jay Gulledge is Senior Scientist and Director of ...
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A Life Lived Well
I am in awe of and humbled by the life this man lived....
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In Iraq, What Are We Leaving Behind?
News this morning that a suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi Army recruiting center, killing 48 and wounding 129, comes weeks before the U.S. military prepares to drawdown troops...
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Living with a Nuclear Iran | Robert Kaplan
CNAS Senior Fellow Robert Kaplan talks about his recent article in The Atlantic on Kissinger, nuclear warfare and Iran. Read the article and the accompanying interview...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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Collective Punishment for Corruption and Terrorism in Pakistan?
An article in the Financial Times this morning intimated that perceptions of both government corruption and support for militant groups are causing international donors to kee...
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GATES TO LEAVE IN 2011; SKY FALLING; AUGUST IN WASHINGTON
I thought Fred Kaplan's profile of Sec. Gates was very solid work and enjoyed reading it. Gates said some very reasonable stuff about when he might like to retire: "I think th...
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Question of the Day: Walt Kowalski Edition
Politico is reporting that Stan McChrystal has accepted a job lecturing at Yale. Knowing the man's cerebral side, that seems to be a good fit for him. But there is another sid...
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This Weekend's News: Challenges and Opportunities for US Soft Power
Two articles this weekend especially caught my attention. The first, an article in The New York Times, starts to draw the climate connections between the extreme weather even...
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On the Lebanese Armed Forces
Okay, I am not the pro's pro on the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) -- that would be, for my money, Aram Nerguizian -- but the rumblings in Congress about the long-standing U.S. t...
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Many Thanks to...
...CNAS interns Isadora (aka "The IZA"*) and Steve (aka "Steve") for fixing the links on the Counterinsurgency Reading List, which I am planning to update in the next month wi...