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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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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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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...
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What Does it Take to Convince a Climate Change Skeptic?
A few months ago Will wrote about climate skepticism and the relationship between scientists and the public, explaining that individual consumers of information often view sci...
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Pakistan - Quaid-e-Azm blushes
August 14 is Pakistan's independence day. The run up to independence day in Pakistan looks pretty much like anywhere else, flags hawked on every street corner and patriotic so...
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Quote of the Day (Bad Predictions Edition)
The instrument will not bring about a revolution in tactics. It will accomplish no real change in the art of war. It is not, in the broad sense of the word, a new arm or a new...
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Two Articles on Iran
Today, I read not only Jeffrey Goldberg's article on the policy options facing U.S. and Israeli leaders with respect to Iran's nuclear program but also Jon Lee Anderson's arti...
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Read This Now: Powering America’s Economy: Energy Innovation at the Crossroads of National Security Challenges
At the White House energy & national security forum a few weeks ago, some pals passed along to me a copy of the new CNA report, “Powering America’s Economy: Energy Innovat...
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Okay, now this is getting ridiculous.
Katherine Miller is exactly the kind of person we need in the ranks of our nation's junior officer corps. (The fact that she quit the West Point rugby team to run triathlons i...
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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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Question of the Day
The United Kingdom is cutting its Army by an incredible 40% and making other hard cuts in its navy and air forces. My question is this: are these cuts being entirely driven by...
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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...