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Hegghammer on "Small" Footprints in Afghanistan ... and Kate Brooks on Pakistani Fashion
Thomas Hegghammer, along with Will McCants, knows more about al-Qaeda than any person I know. He's from that Norwegian school (led by this guy) that thinks you need to, you kn...
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Throwing Karl Under the Bus
Well whoever leaked the fact that Karl Eikenberry is deeply skeptical of the effects of a troop increase in Afghanistan certainly had the desired effect as far as the Washingt...
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Reading Old Magazines: Is the CIA Being Led Astray?
Two weeks ago I wrote about the debate around what role the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could play in analyzing climate change. As I noted in that post, the CIA has alr...
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More Genius from the Onion
"U.S. Deports Lou Dobbs"...
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Veterans Day
We at CNAS are taking the day off of work -- and that includes blogging -- but I led a group of folks around a very rainy Mall to see the World War II memorial, the DC World W...
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Yup.
That's war, alright. Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks...
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Sectarian Cleansing and the Surge
Josh Foust passed along this report arguing that "the surge dovetailed a series of converging dynamics on the ground, facilitating more so than engendering a cessation of host...
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Agricultural Development Teams
USAID does not have the agricultural specialists needed for the mission in Afghanistan, but the National Guard sure does. They have been especially successful in Ghazni. Thank...
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Happy Birthday, USMC
Lt. Col. Jeffrey "Jay" Goodes just led the CNAS celebration of the Marine Corps Birthday, and Abu Muqawama salutes all the leathernecks celebrating downrange in Iraq and Afgha...
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Travel Blog: CNASers in Hawaii
When we travel, we like to compare what we learn about the effects of climate change to a great report on regional effects that the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP...
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Ian Fisher: American Soldier
Great, great photoessay following a soldier through two years in the U.S. Army from enlistment to return from Iraq. (h/t AS)...
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Boats, Not Bombs: Going Nuclear Without Getting MAD
The future of nuclear power is under debate in a variety of forums, with some proponents arguing that nuclear energy provides a greenhouse-free alternative to coal, and oppone...
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He Who Shall Not Be Fact-Checked
Hey, look, everybody, Seymour Hersh has another article for the New Yorker. In this one, people told him a bunch of stuff, and him not wanting to make people feel bad, he went...
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Um... Asia?
Ross Douthat is upset President Obama did not schedule a visit to Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall: There will be speeches and celebrations to mark this anniv...
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Obama, sign her up!
I saw this video while following the Guardian's minute-by-minute report on Manchester United and Chelsea. However many troops the president authorizes for Afghanistan, I want ...
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His last lonely walk
A reader spotted this great feature article on the life and death of a bomb disposal expert in Helmand. Olaf "Oz" Schmid, we salute you. Update: And what an incredibly strong ...
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COIN Conference at SAIS
I'll be out of town, but this is very much worth attending, if only to heckle Brimley about his cave etchings and why he hasn't gotten off his butt and finished the QDR yet. S...
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"There is no Phase IV in thermonuclear war."
This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency, but neither do most of the products we produce at CNAS, so I'll direct your attention to our new report on negotiating with the ...
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Two on the Afghanistan Debate
Two things on Afghanistan worth working through this weekend. The first is Spencer's long and good feature on the Afghanistan debate here in Washington, and the second is a sp...
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The Return
The New York Times has an op-ed today that both my boss and my mother will send to me if I am not quick enough to blog it. WASHED onto the shores of his island home, after 10 ...