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China’s Growing Influence in America’s Backyard: The Trends Policymakers Should be Watching
Hu Jianto is in Washington this week having already spent much time in the Western Hemisphere. Along with his previous trips to the United States, Hu has visited numerous Lati...
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Exum and Foust on Tactics in Afghanistan
Josh Foust and I, as we often do, were engaged in a lengthy Twitter conversation on how to properly evaluate counterinsurgency tactics in Afghanistan. Writing in 140-character...
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On Tunisia, Part II
As has already been discussed, I have little of use to add to the conversation on Tunisia. But Shadi Hamid has a lot of smart things to say about democratization in the Arabic...
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Resource Hungry: China’s Strategic Hand in Africa
This week, Chinese President Hu Jintao will make a pivotal visit to Washington, spotlighting various issues with the White House and the American people. Most likely, North Ko...
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Happy MLK Day
From all of us, happy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Today we hail the champions of the civil rights era who pushed America to live up to its founding principles and helpe...
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What the U.S. and Other Democracies Must Make Clear to China
When Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington this week, there will be lots of ruffles and flourishes. Both governments will refer to the "positive, cooperative and compr...
By Daniel Kliman
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On Tunisia
Like many of this blog's readers, I was unable to stop watching al-Jazeera today. The scenes from Tunis have been incredible. Alas, despite a little time spent in Morocco and ...
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Using "The Wire" to Explain Shia Politics in Lebanon
Inspired by Sean Lee's remark that Walid Junblatt reminds him of Proposition Joe, it occured to me that I need to start using The Wire to explain Lebanese politics more often....
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On Hizballah's Insecurity
One of the comments in the post below noted how odd it is that Hizballah even cares about this stupid tribunal given the position of strength the organization enjoys in Lebano...
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An Unfortunate Thing That's Probably True
I spend much of my time throwing cold water on those who try to make Hizballah out to be al-Qaeda (or want to draw more lessons from 34 days in 2006 than the entire wars in Ir...
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FY2011 NDAA Stresses Importance of DOD Energy Security and Attention to Rare Earths
Introducing Zachary Keck, the newest member to join the ranks of the Natural Security Blog! Zach is a Joseph S. Nye, Jr. National Security Research Intern with the Natural Sec...
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Straight Shooter My A$$
Aaaand, this is why America is going down the drain. By now, everyone has noted what class acts Rush Limbaugh and the gang at KNST are for this peach of a billboard, which unt...
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On America in Lebanon (Updated)
Okay, this is the kind of thing that drives me crazy: In contrast to 2005, Hezbollah’s adversaries — gathered around Mr. Hariri — have fewer options and less support than the...
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Assumptions Test: Group Project!
What do we think of the following assumption, represented in graphic form below? Let's start by assuming both China and Iran have an interest in U.S. military assets remaining...
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The Right Cuts
"To amass military power without regard to our economic capacity would be to defend ourselves against one kind of disaster by inviting another," said U.S. President Dwight D. ...
By Travis Sharp, David W. Barno & USA (Ret.)
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Kagan Squared on Afghanistan
Early this morning, I participated in a discussion of Kim and Fred Kagan's new report on Afghanistan. I'm going to briefly share my comments on the report: First, despite the ...
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This Weekend’s News: Representative Giffords
The one story that will continue to dominate the news cycle for days and weeks to come is the horrific shooting of 20 people on Saturday in Tucson, including U.S. Representati...
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Pakistan's dilemma at Salmaan Taseer's murder
Pakistan confounded analysts once more on January 4 when a policeman in the security detail of the governor of Punjab turned his gun on the man he was supposed to be guarding....
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How Many Forced Entry Brigades Does One Army Need? (Updated)
Here's a question for the readership as we try and wrap our heads around the proposed cuts to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. (I'm not smart enough to comment on the proposed ...
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Read These Now: New SciAm and NatGeo
Good issues to pick up, not just for my love of magazine names that are easy to abbreviate when I don’t have much time to type. Starting with the current National Geographic, ...