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A New Arab Cold War?
With so much going on today in Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen, it's worth taking a step back and asking some preliminary questions about what it all means in terms of ...
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On Libya, the American Media and Public Discourse
Over the past few days, I have received a lot of requests from the media to participate in radio or television programs in which I would take one side on military intervention...
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Food Security in Post-Quake Japan
The world’s focus since last Friday has rightly been on the post-earthquake efforts in Japan. For the past few days, most attention has been directed to the troubling situatio...
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Good News / Bad News
I just heard that four NYT journalists have gone missing in Libya, but I can also report that Ghaith Abdul Ahad, a friend of mine who reports for the Guardian, has been releas...
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Q: Why Is Lebanon Drafting the U.N. No-Fly Resolution on Libya?
A: I suspect most of this blog's readers already know this, but charismatic Lebanese leader Musa Sadr disappeared while traveling to Libya in 1978. Musa Sadr, an Iranian-born ...
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The Hard Work of Combat
Someone once said -- I think it was Bernard Fall -- that the French were not so much outfought at Dien Bien Phu as they were out-engineered. I thought of that while reading t...
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Comment of the Day
The great Trudy Rubin, whose column I used to read while living in Philadelphia, weighed in on Egypt: Having recently returned from Cairo, I say thank you, thank you, for poin...
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While you weren't looking ...
... Saudi Arabia and the UAE more or less invaded Bahrain. Just thought you would want to know. The New York Times has assembled a really smart crew of scholars to weigh in on...
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Events from Around Town: How does Population Affect National Security?
Yesterday, the Wilson Center held a book launch for The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security with author Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba. Deputy Under Secretary of De...
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Wars and the Service Chiefs
Anyone who has been watching the war in Afghanistan for the past two years knows that ISAF, having focused on southern Afghanistan for the past 18 months, now aspires to shift...
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This Weekend’s News: After the Quake
The devastating 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan on Friday and the subsequent tsunami that crippled several of the island nation’s coast communities – even sweeping across the...
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For Intervention in Libya: Two Views
It's not as fun to poke holes in arguments for military intervention in Libya when they are advanced by people like Anne-Marie Slaughter and Eliot Cohen, who should basically ...
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The Order of Battle
Anthony Shadid, who has seen a war or two, from Libya: Only days ago, rebels were boldly promising to march on Surt, Colonel Qaddafi’s hometown, then on to Tripoli, where opp...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
The Uncertain Rise of China's MilitaryChina’s growing defense budget – in addition to its claim of sovereignty in the South China Sea, anti-satellite weapons testing, and interest in cyber military capabilities – ...
By Abraham M. Denmark
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Quote of the Day: "What Do You Pay Us For?" Edition
Boy, if I were an intelligence analyst working on North Africa right now, I would be steaming. Q: Hey, it's actually Jake Tapper. Just, Tom, if you could comment on -- DNI Cla...
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The Rebels Love Us, Right?
I was looking through the Sinjar documents (.pdf) today because I remembered (incorrectly, as it turns out) that Benghazi had sent more foreign fighters to Iraq than any other...
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Investigating American Muslims
We need to investigate radicalization in the United States. Peter King's hearings today, though, endanger U.S. counter-terrorism and counter-radicalization efforts in two ways...
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Stay classy, Michael Hastings! Part III
Well, hopefully this will end the furor over an ugly and now thoroughly discredited hit piece. In a more just world, Rolling Stone would conduct an internal investigation to d...
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Satellites You Need to Know: Climb Aboard the A-Train
Today we are kicking off a new occassional series, "Satellites You Need to Know," which, as you may expect, explores satellites that we think you should know. It's important t...
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China’s Natural Security for the Next Five Years
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivered a speech on China’s five year plan at the Eleventh Party Congress on Saturday. (The Wall Street Journal provided a transcript here.) His r...