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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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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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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...
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Okay, now this is getting ridiculous.
Katherine Miller is exactly the kind of person we need in the ranks of our nation's junior officer corps. (The fact that she quit the West Point rugby team to run triathlons i...
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Muqawama, Muwamara, etc.
Elias Muhanna, whose blog I followed yesterday while simultaneously listening to the speech by Sec. Gates -- honestly, can't Hassan Nasrallah and Bob Gates coordinate when the...
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A Cancun Update: Elusive Progress in Bonn
Squeezed in amongst last week’s apocalyptic news reports on the floods, fires and mudslides that Christine mentioned yesterday, the BBC reported that international climate cha...
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Oh, that's messed up...
The news that the Department of Defense is shuttering the Joint Forces Command was just broken to JFCOM's public affairs officer ... by a reporter. Ouch. Rumors of JFCOM's dem...
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This Weekend’s News: Wow, There Sure Was a Lot of Bad News This Weekend
This is shaping up to be a summer marked by its extensive natural disasters around the world. In addition to the heat waves, projections hinting at a bad hurricane season in t...
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Two Quick Friday Hits on Lebanon
1. Regarding those asking whether or not soldier within the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) might be sympathetic toward Hizballah and their operations in the South: one of the qui...
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On UNIFIL (Updated)
Supporters of Israel are used to seeing that country get something decidedly less than a fair shake in the halls of the United Nations in New York, and I sympathize with them....
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Al Qaeda's Karachi plans
While Pakistan's most immediate disasters (floods, an aircrash, wikileaks, diplomatic squabbles etc) have taken up the headlines, the political killings in Karachi haven't got...
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Could Security Concerns Change Global Attitudes with Countries Straddling the Climate Divide?
Could Russian President Medvedev’s recent statement on climate change be the beginning of a change in attitude among skeptical world leaders (and others in their country) that...
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The Problem with Military Writing on Afghanistan
This blog post by longtime friend of the blog Christian Bleuer should be required reading for not just military officers who write on Afghanistan but also we civilian defense ...
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Pakistani analysis on extremism, its causes and solutions
Yesterday, I attended a conference on counter radicalisation strategies organised by the Pak Institute of Peace Studeis (PIPS) and the United States Institute for Peace (USIP)...
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On Mosques
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the righ...
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Transboundary Rivers and U.S. National Security
While the historical record shows that no states have ever fought a war over transboundary water resources, such resources have long served as focal points for potential confl...
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Civilian Casualties and ROE in Afghanistan
Check out blog alumna Erin "Charlie" Simpson mixing it up with Brian Katulis, Jake Shapiro, and Sarah Holewinski (of CIVIC) at the New America Foundation. Shapiro's thesis is ...
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Read This Now: The QDR in Perspective
Last week, the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Review Panel released its final report on the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). The five-month review of the QDR was...
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Incorporating Direct Action Special Operations into COIN (Updated)
An American friend from the Middle East who has recently spent time covering the war in Afghanistan had the same question I did upon reading this article in the New York Times...
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A New Standard for Objective Journalism at the CJR?
I work as a defense policy analyst at a think tank. I get paid to do research and then give informed opinions about issues of interest to policy-makers. Those policy-makers ca...