Articles & Multimedia
Showing 6921-6940 of 8755 Publications
-
In Inaugural Review, DHS Says Climate Change Could Shape Security Environment
The Department of Homeland Security released its inaugural Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) last week. According to the report, the QHSR will "Describe more compreh...
-
(Field) Manual Sift: A Newly COIN’d Blog Feature
At the risk of having this new feature labeled a complete cliché, I will save you the overly used George Santayana quote, and simply state that sometimes it is pertinent to lo...
-
Speaking of CT...
...this video, released by the police in Dubai, of the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is just amazing. Like watching Munich. But for real....
-
A CT Reading List? [Open Thread]
Okay, you all know about the famous Abu Muqawama Counterinsurgency Reading List. But a reader wrote in asking whether or not we might consider posting a reading list on counte...
-
Movie Review: Avatar
At the risk of a pop culture flogging, I thought that someone over at the Natural Security blog should put out some commentary on the seemingly messianic piece of 3D cinema kn...
-
Marja Analysis (Updated)
I'm at work, unable to endure watching the rest of France v. Ireland after this epic collapse. It's a good time to read some of the analysis of the ongoing offensive in Marja,...
-
Charlie Wilson, RIP
What a life....
-
Book Review: To Hellholes and Back
I got this book for my brother Chris, a lover of diving and travel humor, for Christmas after a friend recommended it on Facebook. Having not read it and purchased it for titl...
-
Read This Now: Land Grab? The Race for the World’s Farmlands
Our colleagues in the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars recently released a comprehensive report, Land Grab? The Race for the World’s Farmla...
-
The Need for Research (Or, Why You Should Not Write Newspaper Columns While High on Qat)
Tom Friedman's column today about how we can build more schools and defeat terrorism is one of those things that sounds right but probably isn't. Leave aside the fact that Uma...
-
From the Dept. of We All Make Mistakes
A few days ago I posted on this New York Times article about the memoirs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was happy to see memoirist friends like Craig and Nate get so...
-
NOAAing Your Climate Science
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced yesterday that it would reorganize its climate services so it can provide Americans with more information ...
-
Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World - Transcript
Download the transcript from the January 26 event on the contested commons - sea, air, space, and cyberspace - including remarks from: Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gar...
-
To be fair, "fog of war" was suggested by the editors...
Elizabeth Bumiller, you are in the penalty box of the English language. Describing the many great memoirs that have been written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she wr...
-
This Weekend's News: Big Natural Security Elections – Ukraine Thinks Gas while Venezuela Explores Geoengineering
The biggest natural security news through the long D.C. snowpocalypse weekend involved coverage of two energy-important elections, one now held and the other to come later thi...
-
Abu Muqawama on Twitter
Now that I am no longer blogging on a daily basis, the best way to see what has caught my eye in a given day is by following this blog's Twitter feed. I know it can be an anno...
-
Intelligence Assessments & Climate Change: 2009 v. 2010
I thought it would be super fun to spend a Wednesday night comparing the intelligence community’s threat assessment language on climate change from last year and this year (pd...
-
In Praise of Quants
A week ago, I spent some time on the blog whining about Quants and their work on counterinsurgency. Since then, two scholars -- distinguished veterans of the war in Iraq -- ha...
-
Natural Security in Yesterday’s SASC Hearing
Yesterday was full of fun with the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the FY2011 budget. Here are the natural security-related exchanges from the transcript, beginning...
-
In Budget, Emphasis on Investments in Energy Innovation
The President released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 budget yesterday alongside the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). (For a solid analysis on the budget and the QDR, check o...