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Green Ships
Whether it’s to save money at the gas pump, reduce the impact on the environment, or get the solo ticket in the HOV lane inside the Beltway, people today are buying a lot of h...
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Speaking of good memoirs...
...this one, sure to be under the pillow of every USMA cadet from now until infinity, is out in paperback starting today....
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National Security Human Capital Program
Gen James Mattis' Keynote Address at the Launch of 'Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America's Military Officer Corps' - VideoU.S. Joint Forces Commander General James Mattis delivers the keynote address at the launch of the CNAS report “Keeping the Edge: Revitalizing America’s Military Officer Corps...
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Col. Bob Howard
Col. (Ret.) Bob Killebrew just told me that Col. Bob Howard was interred today in Arlington. Who was Bob Howard? Maybe the finest warrior ever produced by the U.S. military. ...
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Buy This Book. Now.
While home in Tennessee this weekend, I finished (and enjoyed) this book and this book. More on both later. But as soon as I started Matt Gallagher's new memoir, Kaboom, while...
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Living Our Values
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...
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This Weekend’s News: Fun with Nuclear Reactors
I’m going to reach back into last week on this one, as President Obama teed up the topic last Tuesday with his announcement of over $8 billion in loan guarantees for new nucle...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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Charlie Wilson, RIP
What a life....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...