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How to Win in Afghanistan
Some tips, from Sunday's New York Times, from 10 smart people and one blogger....
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Minerals and Security: Issues and Sources
With the help of Spencer Ackerman giving a nod to our use of music video to add a small glimmer of personality to the Natural Security Blog on what could have been a rather ru...
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The echos of Afghanistan
British politicians are fond of telling the public that fighting in Afghanistan prevents bombs going off at home. Considering that more than half the population wants the army...
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I don't know how to say this [in Hebrew], but I'm kind of a big deal [on the internet].
I'm blogging from Terminal Three in Ben Gurion Airport, where I left myself plenty of time to get through all the security checkpoints. The first time I visited Israel, in Dec...
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CNAS Global Domination Extends to Softball
I head back from Israel today and will no doubt arrive to email inboxes filled with unread messages. I will also return, though, to the home of the 2009 Think Tank Softball Le...
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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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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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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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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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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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CNAS President John Nagl'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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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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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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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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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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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...