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This Weekend’s News: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Water provided the biggest natural security headline of the weekend, as Ban Ki-moon flew over the Aral Sea – now 90% sea-less – and declared it “clearly one of the worst disas...
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On the Relative Strength of Horses
From Lee Smith's The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations: This is a book about Arab poilitics, society, and culture, which is to say this is a b...
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Easter Sunday in Islamabad
Muslim or Christian, what to do on Easter Sunday in Islamabad?..... cricket!! ...
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Good Friday Post
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilean." But he denied it before them all, saying, "I d...
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Video of the Week: Energy Security and Independence
On Wednesday, several of my CNAS colleagues went to hear President Obama deliver his big energy speech at Andrews Air Force Base. Christine recapped the experience in her post...
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COIN for Aviators
Okay, enough about Lady Gaga. And Israeli settlements. It's time to post on counterinsurgency again, and this is in response to an aviator's request for information on how he ...
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On Lady Gaga and Settlements: Thomas Hegghammer Weighs In
The debate over whether or not Lady Gaga or Israeli settlements is a bigger driver of conflict and anti-Americanism in the Middle East has heated up in spectacularly hilarious...
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Dagestan: A Deadly Dagger for Russia
Back in February I had posted an article from Foreign Policy in the daily Natural Security News on the destabilization of Dagestan in Russia’s Northern Caucasus territories...
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Quote for the Week
From a very good review essay in the Financial Times covering some new books on the Dreyfus Affair: The atavistic impulse that spawned the Dreyfus affair, Begley warns, is as ...
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Quote of the Week, Part II (Caucasus Edition)
This one comes via a Russian jihadist website: Success in guerrilla warfare (the conduct of combat operations on territory occupied by the enemy) by the will of God largely de...
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CNAS Field Trip: Obama's Energy & Climate Speech
As any of you who follow me on Twitter likely know by now, I accompanied three esteemed colleagues to President Obama's big energy speech today. We were quite fortunate to be ...
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Lady Gaga : Westchester County :: Haifa Wehbe : Southern Lebanon
Brett Stephens starts his op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal with the following question: Pop quiz—What does more to galvanize radical anti-American sentiment in the Muslim ...
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Top 5: Natural Security Issues for the U.S.-Indonesia Relationship
With President Obama’s trip to Indonesia delayed several times, and tensions there already high, I thought it might be interesting to look at the unique and emerging partnersh...
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Sarah Palin for... ... ...Pakistan!
Reading Michelle Cottle's piece in The New Republic about Sarah Palin's odds as a potential leader of the Tea Partiers, I suddenly felt I knew what it must have been like to b...
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The Ficklet Arrives
Allow me to offer a huge congratulations to my friend-turned-boss Nate Fick and his wife Margaret Angell on the birth of Margaret Ella Fick. Named after their grandmothers, "E...
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This Weekend’s News: The Future of Climate Legislation
On Saturday night, national, state, and local governments, major cities, businesses, households and international monuments all turned their lights out for Earth Hour (some gr...
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POTUS in Afghanistan
Great speech, but I'm more curious as to how the talk with Karzai went....
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The other elephant in the Pakistani room
I've been mulling over for days what it is about the recent talk of "strategic dialogue" and the "new relationship" between the US and Pakistan that just doesn't sit right wit...
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Technology & National Security
Global Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in a Digital AgeGoogle’s announcement that it will stop censoring results from its Chinese search engine is just the latest development on the internet freedom agenda and highlights the incre...
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What is the value of high value targeting?
I do not usually make it to think tank events in DC, but I made the time today to sit in at the start of the Brookings Institute's Defense Challenges and Future Opportunities ...