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While you weren't looking...
Aside from being a great Caitlin Cary album, that phrase is as good a way as any to break the news that Saudi Arabia is now bombing Yemen. The Saudi air force has bombed stro...
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Reading Old Magazines: Mineral Myths
My colleague Mike pointed me in the direction of this post by Stephen Walt, which considers strategic minerals on a Halloween list of “overblown threats, dubious nightmares, a...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The blame game
A few people have been wondering about what Pakistanis make of the recent attacks that have taken place all around the north of the country. Londonstani has been travelling ar...
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Dan Brown? Really?
No wonder we have no peace in the Middle East. George Mitchell spends all his time with Hillary Clinton discussing the plotlines of Dan Brown novels while Jeff Feltman stares ...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The lesser spotted last gasp
It's probably not even worth counting how many times one side of a conflict has portrayed the increasing violence of its foes as a "last gasp". The Taliban in Afghanistan has ...
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And now, from our friends in the academy...
The Journal of Strategic Studies has a special edition completely devoted to counterinsurgency and related issues....
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Dealing with the Karzais...
What happens when the interests of the host nation government don't line up with the interests of the counterinsurgent force is famously absent from FM 3-24. Blog favorites Bi...
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The Cost of Civilians at War
I was talking on Friday night with a friend of mine who works on Afghanistan policy, and we began discussing the trickle (or "surge") of civilians into southern and eastern Af...
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Just How Vulnerable is DoD's Grid Security? Not Quite Sure, Says GAO
Last week I covered an event at the Wilson Center where Dr. Amory Lovins, a member of the Defense Science Board’s Task Force on DoD Energy Strategy, gave a stark presentation ...
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On Martial Virtue ... and Selling Jon Krakauer's Crappy New Book
A few months ago, I was asked to review Jon Krakauer's new book by the Washington Post, and I must admit to having been excited. Having grown up a pretty serious rock climber,...
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Movie Review: There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood, a 2007 film very loosely based on the 1927 Upton Sinclair book Oil!, is really only partly about oil. At its core, it's a story of a man who absolutely ha...
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All I want for Christmas is...
...a census and land registry for Afghanistan. This is one reason why: President Obama is still working hard to figure out the next steps in the very difficult war in Afghanis...
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Pakistan Dispatch: State of the Nation
Nine days is a long time in Pakistan these days. Since Londonstani went off on his (mostly) road trip around Pakistan a lot has happened. Not much of it has been good. Several...
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This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency, but...
Well, as we discussed yesterday, there are great books doomed to become (potentially) awful movies starring Matt Damon. But apparently there are also great books which can bec...
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Photo of the Week: Because No One Wants to Read Too Much on Fridays
This photo shows the solar array at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, one of several energy projects we checked out this week while we're here at work on a few CNAS natural sec...
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Weekly News Roundup: Thank You, Madame Chairwoman
This week the Senate’s version of the climate bill (pdf) received a series of hearings in the Committee on Environment and Public Works. The bill (S. 1733, commonly known as t...
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From the Dept. of Poorly Chosen Historical Analogies
I interrupt my blogging hiatus to bring you the following report. Christopher Buckley, one of my favorite authors, read Matthew Hoh's letter and is now calling for us to withd...
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Wanted: Hebrew Reader
So there's this book by Moshe "Chiko" Tamir that I cannot read. It's an untranslated memoir about his service as an Israeli officer in southern Lebanon that is basically the I...
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Writing, Writing...
I'll be away from the blog today....
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A little different than I remembered it in '03...
Well, this looks ... awful....