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(Field) Manual Shift: The Small Wars Manual, WWII and Dr. Mansoor
The Small Wars Manual (SWM), released in 1940 by the United States Marine Corps, in response to the growing engagements in guerilla style wars in Central America and Caribbean...
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Revenge of the Nerds!
Much to my amusement, this post on the utlity of quantitative analysis caused quite a stir in the international relations blogosphere. I don't know if folks in security studie...
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This Weekend’s News: Iran, Energy and Us
Big, big natural security news from The New York Times this weekend. You know how we’ve been sanctioning Iran and discouraging U.S. investment in its energy sector? Well – pre...
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Special Abu Muqawama Q&A: Six Questions for Deb Amos
Today we have a special interview with NPR's Deborah Amos. Deb is a longtime reader of this blog and an even longer-time student and observer of the Arabic-speaking world. I a...
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Book Review: Global Warring
In a post-Snowpocalyptic world, climate change scientists have found themselves defending their work against climate change skeptics who are using the historic winter weather ...
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Anthony Shadid on Loss and Nostalgia in the Middle East
I just found this via Arabist. This is Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middle East correspondent for the New York Times (and the Boston Globe and Washington Post be...
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Abu Muqawama Salutes Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset
The David Brooks love letter to the people of Norway in today's New York Times is worth reading. A true profile in courage from the nation of 4.7m people that has won more med...
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On Biofuels and Their Infrastructure
There is a common refrain (maybe more common in D.C. than elsewhere) that there is a chicken and egg problem with some alternative energy varieties and their infrastructure. T...
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The Weekend News: Chu Tour 2010
Last week, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu undertook what I would characterize as an energy diplomacy tour of the Middle East, spending the first two days of his four ...
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Reading Lists!
You all know how much I love reading lists. I have been looking over the suggested reading list for the U.S. Army War College (.pdf), and it is mostly excellent. Some may snig...
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Always with the negative waves, Moriarty ... Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
I have not seen the Hurt Locker. My only opinion of the director, Katherine Bigelow, is based on Point Break, which we can all agree is the greatest movie ever featuring Keanu...
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Taliban United
We have touched in this blog on developments that seem to suggest the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban groups have started working ever-more closely together. This article by Davi...
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A Quantitative Analysis Manifesto?
I have written a little about the utility of quantitative analysis in the field of security studies here and here. Last week, though, I finished Wall Street Journal reporter S...
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Song of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
A war machine, like any mechanism, needs fuel in order to run. When that war machine is operating in an environment where the necessary fuels are sparse, a person has two opti...
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Spotlight on the Hill: Energy Management and Initiatives on Military Installations
Yesterday I made the journey over to the Hill to check out an interesting hearing for the House Armed Services Committee Readiness Subcommittee over energy management and init...
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... Um.. oh yes they did
A just-published news report has prodded Londonstani out of a work-enduced coma: The Christian Science Monitor reports today (24th) that the Pakistani authorities have moved a...
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Woah, did Pakistan just arrest half of the Quetta Shura?
Anand Gopal, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and now with the Christian Science Monitor, has a scoop. Pakistan has arrested nearly half of the Afghanistan Taliban’s leader...
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From the Dept. of You Have to Be Kidding Me
And you people wonder why I never blog or write about Israel and the Palestinians? How the hell am I supposed to make sense of this? The son of a leading Hamas figure, who fam...
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Interagency Effort Targets Environmental Protection and Response along the U.S/Mexico Border
This morning The Washington Post reported that the United States plans to embed American intelligence agents in Mexican law enforcement units along the border city of Ciudad J...
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Read This Now: Niger: The Coup and Uranium
Last week Stratfor issued a cool piece, “Niger: The Coup and Uranium.” This is straight up natural security reading for you, dear readers. You can get the full article in exch...