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On Afghan Marksmanship
I saw this Wall Street Journal article on a Taliban sniper is the most-viewed article on WSJ.com. It's worth pointing out, then, that the myth of the great Afghan marksman is ...
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Master Debaters
My friend Mike Horowitz -- author of this great new book -- has a really funny, well, debate up on Slate with Mark Oppenheimer on high school and college debating. Some of you...
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Defining the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq (Update)
Here's a fun project for the readership. This should keep you busy through the weekend. I was reading a book chapter by Stathis Kalyvas (.pdf) and came across his definition o...
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As I told Lt. Gen. Barno this morning, "Sir, this proves we were winning when WE left."
Drew Conway was promoted to the faculty of New York University (uh, by the New York Times, at least), for these neat charts he helped make using the Wikileaks data. Visualis...
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Climate Risks: Lessons from 2010’s Extreme Weather
This post was originally published yesterday by the Climate Compass blog at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change where Dr. Jay Gulledge is Senior Scientist and Director of ...
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A Life Lived Well
I am in awe of and humbled by the life this man lived....
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In Iraq, What Are We Leaving Behind?
News this morning that a suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi Army recruiting center, killing 48 and wounding 129, comes weeks before the U.S. military prepares to drawdown troops...
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Question of the Day: Walt Kowalski Edition
Politico is reporting that Stan McChrystal has accepted a job lecturing at Yale. Knowing the man's cerebral side, that seems to be a good fit for him. But there is another sid...
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This Weekend's News: Challenges and Opportunities for US Soft Power
Two articles this weekend especially caught my attention. The first, an article in The New York Times, starts to draw the climate connections between the extreme weather even...
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GATES TO LEAVE IN 2011; SKY FALLING; AUGUST IN WASHINGTON
I thought Fred Kaplan's profile of Sec. Gates was very solid work and enjoyed reading it. Gates said some very reasonable stuff about when he might like to retire: "I think th...
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Collective Punishment for Corruption and Terrorism in Pakistan?
An article in the Financial Times this morning intimated that perceptions of both government corruption and support for militant groups are causing international donors to kee...
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Living with a Nuclear Iran | Robert Kaplan
CNAS Senior Fellow Robert Kaplan talks about his recent article in The Atlantic on Kissinger, nuclear warfare and Iran. Read the article and the accompanying interview...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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On the Lebanese Armed Forces
Okay, I am not the pro's pro on the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) -- that would be, for my money, Aram Nerguizian -- but the rumblings in Congress about the long-standing U.S. t...
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Many Thanks to...
...CNAS interns Isadora (aka "The IZA"*) and Steve (aka "Steve") for fixing the links on the Counterinsurgency Reading List, which I am planning to update in the next month wi...
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What Does it Take to Convince a Climate Change Skeptic?
A few months ago Will wrote about climate skepticism and the relationship between scientists and the public, explaining that individual consumers of information often view sci...
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Pakistan - Quaid-e-Azm blushes
August 14 is Pakistan's independence day. The run up to independence day in Pakistan looks pretty much like anywhere else, flags hawked on every street corner and patriotic so...
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Quote of the Day (Bad Predictions Edition)
The instrument will not bring about a revolution in tactics. It will accomplish no real change in the art of war. It is not, in the broad sense of the word, a new arm or a new...
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Two Articles on Iran
Today, I read not only Jeffrey Goldberg's article on the policy options facing U.S. and Israeli leaders with respect to Iran's nuclear program but also Jon Lee Anderson's arti...
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Read This Now: Powering America’s Economy: Energy Innovation at the Crossroads of National Security Challenges
At the White House energy & national security forum a few weeks ago, some pals passed along to me a copy of the new CNA report, “Powering America’s Economy: Energy Innovat...
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Question of the Day
The United Kingdom is cutting its Army by an incredible 40% and making other hard cuts in its navy and air forces. My question is this: are these cuts being entirely driven by...