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Exum and Yon on Afghanistan
A friend from Chattanooga pointed out that an interview with me has been published on the PBS website. If any of you were curious as to my thoughts on Afghanistan and counteri...
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Weekly News Roundup: Food Security - the Other Headline
This week some of the most prominent natural security news focused on the much-anticipated release of climate legislation by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA...
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Why Normal Americans Hate Washington, D.C., Part MMCIII
From the Washington Post: One senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the meeting, said, "A lot of assumptions -- and I don't want to...
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A Lesson in How to Make Stan McChrystal Uncomfortable
Flight Lieutenant Victoria Anderton, step right up. [Watch McChrystal's full remarks here.]...
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CNAS Fellow Andrew Exum's Interview on "Obama's War"
October 2, 2009 - CNAS Fellow Andrew Exum is interviewed on the upcoming PBS FRONTLINE documentary "Obama's War." The full documentary will air October 13. Download the full t...
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Frontline in Afghanistan
A reader alerted me to the fact that I am in this PBS Frontline feature on Afghanistan. If you do not know the work of Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith, you should, because th...
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From the Dept. of Not Making Sense One Bit
Couldn't we have let Mark Lippert do his reserve duty in the White House? I know SEALs need good intelligence officers (insert your own joke about SEALs and intelligence in th...
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Lost in Translation: CNAS Event Recap
For an event centered on how the scientific and policy communities have a difficult time communicating, the discussion was certainly lively last night at Lost in Translation, ...
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Pakistan... ready to exhale?
Londonstani has been trying to get to the motherland (that would be Pakistan) for ages now, and has finally been given permission by the government to go and run around report...
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On Wingnuts (Updated)
I read Tom Friedman's column today, and though I usually find something to complain about in a Tom Friedman column, this one hit home. Because the scariest thing I have heard ...
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Grading Hizballah in 2006 (against the curve)
My schedule is packed with meetings today, so posting will be light, but this beat out Iranian rocket tests for the lead story in yesterday's Jerusalem Post: During his resear...
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Book Review: Crude World
This won’t be a full review of the new book Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by writer Peter Maass, as it was treated to good reviews already this past week in The New...
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Indefensible
I agree: “I don’t think I can defend him for being out of touch with his commander,” said Michael E. O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution. “He has other people who advise him...
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There is something to be said for...
...principles. “I simply decided I could not be complicit in the cover up of fraud,” he said, speaking by telephone from Vermont....
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Natural Security News: Update
One more news item from today, just flagged by a DOD contact: UPI reports that the CIA is opening a Center on Climate Change and National Security. This is big news, especiall...
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Lithium: Not Just a Nirvana Song
The Natural Security team has been very interested in critical minerals recently, and in the months to come we’re planning to look deeper into how minerals relate to U.S. nati...
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On Hizballah's Strategy
As you might imagine, I have spent a lot of time in the bars and cafes of Beirut talking with journalists, analysts and other friends about Hizballah and its strategy. It's a ...
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Afghanistan and Obama
In my opinion, Ross Douthat (with Vinegar Joe Lieberman) gets a lot right in this column. Namely: In a conversation last week, the Connecticut senator was careful to avoid tak...
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Dictator Chic
Oh, Muammar......
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Reading Old Magazines: The World’s Resources II- Minerals, Food, and Water
Recent reports of China’s corner on current production of rare earth minerals have caused quite a stir. In the recent proliferation of authors and institutes looking at U.S. m...