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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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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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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...
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Spotlight on the Hill: Congress Turns to Financing for Climate Adaptation
Yesterday, I attended a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on “Climate Change Finance: Providing Assistance for Vulnerable Countries.” The committee witnessed testimony ...
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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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On Wikileaks (Updated)
I don't have that much more to add to the conversation about the Wikileaks docu-dump on Afghanistan beyond what I wrote in the New York Times this morning. Let me just say tha...
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Perspectives on Reconciliation Options in Afghanistan
CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow David Kilcullen testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the options for reconciliation in Afghanistan. Kilcullen’s t...
By David Kilcullen
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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...