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Hizballah on the Wrong Side of History
You think the United States has played its hand poorly during the Arab Spring? Hizballah busied themselves airing claims I am some kind of spy over the weekend, but if I were...
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All Jokes Aside
A few days ago, I was accused by a German conspiracy theorist of having assassinated former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. On first glance, this is kind of funny. Yeste...
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You know you've arrived when ...
... you get accused of assassinating Rafik Hariri. تهم المحقق السابق والخبير الألماني جيرغن هانزغولبل الموساد الإسرائيلي بوقوفه وراء اغتيال رئيس الوزراء اللبناني الأسبق رفيق ا...
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If you only listen to five counter-terrorism analysts...
If you watch U.S. cable news in the aftermath of today's attacks in Norway -- and really, why are you watching U.S. cable news? -- you are likely to see various "terrorism" "e...
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Revising FM 3-24
I have just spent the past several days talking about small wars and insurgencies with the brilliant graduate students who make up this year's SWAMOS class. I lectured all day...
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Shameless Plug for New Bulletin Piece on Security Risks & Priorities
As we teed up on the blog, yesterday the UN Security Council debated the security implications of climate change. The reactions of friends, folks in my Twitterverse and tradit...
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Cornell
I am in Ithaca, New York preparing to teach a module on insurgency and counterinsurgency tomorrow as part of the Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strateg...
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Thoughts on the UNSC Climate & Security Debate and Next Steps
Today the UN Security Council is going to debate climate change. Between the debt crisis and lack of much movement on addressing climate change at home leading many abroad to ...
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Through Military Engagement, Harnessing Natural Resources for Peacebuilding
On Wednesday, I’ll be at the Wilson Center for a daylong symposium,Harnessing Natural Resources for Peacebuilding: Lessons From U.S. and Japanese Assistance, where I’ll join a...
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This Weekend’s News: Naval Exchanges Irk China over South China Sea
Recent naval exercises between the United States and Vietnam have drawn criticism from China due to disputes between China and Vietnam over the South China Sea. “United States...
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Book Review: Steve Tankel's "Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba"
Genius CNAS research assistant Mirv "Matt" Irvine, who knows more about Pakistani militant groups than most, has written a review of my friend Steve Tankel's new book on Lashk...
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Women and CNAS
Micah Zenko has a piece up on Foreign Policy's website about gender (im)balance in think tanks. His data (which I assume he took from our website, here) demonstrates that only...
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Energy (and Not Rare Earths) in the SASC's 2012 NDAA
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s approved its FY2012 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1253), which we’ve been anxiously awaiting. First, I’ll start with an omissio...
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The Arctic Heats Up: New EO and Survey Expeditions
It appears that DOD updated its Unified Command Plan to assign NORTHCOM the lead on the Arctic just in time. The pace of Arctic-area activity by the United States, Russia and ...
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RLTW
SFC Leroy Petry will receive the Medal of Honor today. Army.mil has a really excellent feature explaining the medal itself, Rangers, and what SFC Petry did to earn the nation'...
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AWK KIA
As either Reinhold Niebuhr or Brother Mouzone once said, "The game is the game." Ahmed Wali Karzai, long a case study for how U.S. government agencies and departments pull in...
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A Glimpse of the HA/DR Future
While we were out last week, a few news items big enough to make the Early Bird focused on U.S. military responses to natural disasters. Both of these issues are continuing t...
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Dan Byman's "A High Price"
I had mentioned on the blog a few weeks back that I was looking forward to reading Dan Byman's A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism. I can safel...
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This (Past Week's) News
As we are just getting back from a week of vacation - and I didn't see any particularly jaw-dropping natural security news over the weekend - I'll start the week by just point...
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And now, let me wade on into three ongoing, unrelated controversies with both guns blazing...
Ready? 1. This nonsense about adding new medals to recognize service in Iraq and Afghanistan is just as ridiculous as people have been saying, and for even more reasons. The w...