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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...
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Atone, Crazy People
It's a little odd being in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur. Because cars are banned from the roads, you can literally walk down deserted four-lane arteries in the middle of the day, w...
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Lessons in Sharing, Part II
Reader "Devil Dawg" writes in from Iraq to illustrate the problem I addressed in an earlier post. Not being able to share information with our alleged "partners" due to classi...
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Sunday Afghanistan Roundup
I spent yesterday driving around the West Bank with some friends -- I'm sorry to say the famous kunafeh at al-Quds in Nablus was not, I did not think, as good as that at Sea S...
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Weekly News Roundup: Climate Change Takes Center Stage
This week has been full of major speeches—and some action—on natural security. President Obama addressed these issues not once, but twice at the United Nations. Meanwhile, the...
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UK Strategy and Defense Policy: Where Should It Go?
It has not escaped the British Ministry of Defense -- excuse me, Ministry of Defence -- that we colonists have a rather more lively public debate on our defense policy than do...
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Contrary to popular belief...
Eli Lake and others are now reporting a resource request for Afghanistan will come on Friday, while Spencer Ackerman is at the Marine Corps University's COIN Leadership Confer...
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Losing Traditions in a Changing Climate
With the opening of the Arctic and alternating droughts and floods across Africa, it may not seem like recent reports of poor hop and grape yields are major security concerns....
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CNAS CEO Nathaniel Fick's Opening Remarks at "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - Transcript
China’s rise is one of the most significant geopolitical events in modern history, with important ramifications for U.S. interests, regional power balances, and the internatio...
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Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg's Keynote Address at "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - Transcript
China’s rise is one of the most significant geopolitical events in modern history, with important ramifications for U.S. interests, regional power balances, and the internatio...
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Two Funny Things
1. How great was Qaddafi today? I mean, classic. The Guardian has the best re-cap: He tore up a copy of the UN charter in front of startled delegates, accused the security cou...
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Natural Security by Another Definition
Today we wanted to just flag another new report out called “Natural Security,” by Washington, D.C.-based conservation group American Rivers. Obviously the group has a differen...
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Petraeus on COIN, CT and Afghanistan
Petraeus in the Times of London. Countering terrorists and extremism requires more than a conventional military approach. Military operations enable you to clear areas of ext...
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The Men vs. The Mission
Population-centric counterinsurgency puts soldiers lives at risk. That's the truth. Members of Congress have voiced concern about the increase in U.S. deaths, one of the facto...
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Debating Afghanistan
On the one hand, I am really glad the Obama Administration is debating a wide variety of alternatives in Afghanistan. While most of us were operating under the assumption that...
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Joining Forces, Requesting Forces, etc.
I got the press release for this new report from Kim and Fred Kagan on force requirements for Afghanistan and started laughing: "Dr. Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the St...
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Reading Old Magazines: "Power, Mobility, and the Law of the Sea”
As Christine promised in yesterday’s post on the new Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force – which recommends that the United States ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the...