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Tribal Engagement for Afghanistan?
Spurred on by this paper (.pdf), the gang at Small Wars Journal ran a great workshop a few weeks back examining whether or not tribal engagement would work as a strategy for A...
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This Weekend’s News: Energy and the Nuclear Security Summit
If you are in downtown Washington this morning, you have probably noticed the slight change in tempo as the heads of state and other representatives from 47 nations gather at ...
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Woah, hey! Spot the Afghanistan expert!
Gilles Dorronsoro makes his Saturday Night Live debut two minutes in. This is hilarious to the approximately .000012% of the U.S. population who know who Gilles Dorronsoro is....
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Arguing extremism
A lot of people in Western Europe and North America (OK, possibly Australia too) are of the opinion that Islam = death, destruction and terrorism (with some female hating thro...
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Video of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
President Obama announced more than $8 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants this week, sparking much news and debate this week over the wisdom of using nucl...
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Dialogue and aid in Pakistan
Ahmed Rashid (the author of Descent into Chaos and Taliban) sums up on the BBC website what the "strategic dialogue" between Pakistan and the US means for relations between ...
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Our Gift to You: New CNAS Climate Change & Security Working Paper
Yesterday we released the third installment of our Promoting the Dialogue series on how climate change may affect DOD missions, equipment and capabilities. We’ve focused the r...
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Pakistan catch up - What's in a name?
Sometimes, you go on holiday for a bit and you return to find everything has just...gone very wrong! I came back from visiting Ms Henley-on-Thames to find the Islamabad electr...
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Read This Now: Nat Geo’s Special Issue on Water
As the headline states, I recommend to anyone reading this blog that they give a glance to the current special edition of National Geographic on water issues. It highlights wa...
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Breaking the Safe Haven: Minerals in Waziristan
Yesterday’s attack on the U.S. consulate in Peshawar has brought the insurgency in western Pakistan back into the headlines. The consulate serves as the headquarters for ongoi...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...