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DOD and Sector 7G
Of the geeky interests I pass the time with, perhaps none are as odd as my interests in reading old technical documents and outdated architecture. You can imagine the nerd-tas...
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This Weekend's News: China and Latin America and The Onion
We have been pumping hard on some writing deadlines last week and through the weekend, so this is going to be short and sweet. After laboring to wrap up our series on how clim...
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On Drone Strikes
Tom Ricks is the one who usually gets the interns at CNAS to do the spade work on his blog, but I was talking with intern Matt Irvine about an event he attended on drone strik...
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You Stay Classy, Northrop Grumman
A hobby of mine is to examine and reflect upon the ridiculous amount of money the military-industrial complex spends on advertising in the DC metro system in its effort to con...
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Bajaur aftermath - The Independent
Patrick Cockburn has great report from Bajaur in today's Independent. The access comes about as a result of a PR trip organised by the Pakistani military but Cockburn takes th...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Michael Nash
I recently had the good fortune to drop by the British Embassy for a viewing of filmmaker Michael Nash’s most recent film Climate Refugees. After the event, I had a chance to ...
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First my cousin criticizes the insurgent strategy of the rebel alliance in "Star Wars" and now this
These are the kinds of emails Foust sends me at 11:00 at night because he knows I'm the only one who will appreciate them, even if I have never actually watched Glee: Watching...
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How to report Pakistan (or anywhere) and how to.... not
This story in the Washington Post is good example of how to write a story on Pakistan. By that I mean, go there. If you do, you get to say stuff like this with some authority:...
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U.S. Military Assistance to Lebanon
I had dinner last night with several Levant specialists, including Aram Nerguizian of the CSIS. Tony Cordesman speaks highly of Aram, and their paper on the Lebanese Armed For...
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Events from Around Town: Climate Change and Mild Disasters at the Elliot School
The Elliot School at George Washington University featured a discussion under the superfluous title of Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes, which while e...
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About those Scuds...
I don't really have all that much analysis to add to the allegations that Syria has transfered Scud missiles to Hizballah. So let me just contribute two points: Acquiring scud...
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Read This Now: Pulling into Port
This week the Natural Security team is practicing our Da Vinci polyphasic sleep schedules as we close out two papers by Friday, so our posts may be a bit short and sweet this ...
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Extremism - to debate or denounce
The Quilliam Foundation, a pretty influential UK think tank focusing on extremism, is holding a round table discussion on a report it put out last month on Britain's Islam Cha...
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What does extremist recruiting look like?
So, Western forces rock up in your town, kick out the local humourless, dour puritanical loons that were screwing up your future and tell you things will be getting better. A ...
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Woah, hey! Spot the Afghanistan expert!
Gilles Dorronsoro makes his Saturday Night Live debut two minutes in. This is hilarious to the approximately .000012% of the U.S. population who know who Gilles Dorronsoro is....
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Tribal Engagement for Afghanistan?
Spurred on by this paper (.pdf), the gang at Small Wars Journal ran a great workshop a few weeks back examining whether or not tribal engagement would work as a strategy for A...
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This Weekend’s News: Energy and the Nuclear Security Summit
If you are in downtown Washington this morning, you have probably noticed the slight change in tempo as the heads of state and other representatives from 47 nations gather at ...
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Arguing extremism
A lot of people in Western Europe and North America (OK, possibly Australia too) are of the opinion that Islam = death, destruction and terrorism (with some female hating thro...
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Video of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
President Obama announced more than $8 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants this week, sparking much news and debate this week over the wisdom of using nucl...
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Dialogue and aid in Pakistan
Ahmed Rashid (the author of Descent into Chaos and Taliban) sums up on the BBC website what the "strategic dialogue" between Pakistan and the US means for relations between ...