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Eid Mubarak!
Ramadan is officially over and the Muslim world is about to give thanks after a month of contemplation, temperance and the chance to be granted God's forgiveness. Well actuall...
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When Taliban reporting goes wrong...
The real subject of this post is communication, and when it all goes wrong. Londonstani has spent most of the day confused by an interview in the Independent with Lieutenant-G...
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Weekly News Roundup: Changing Environments, Missions
This week, several Natural Security news items explored the operational and strategic challenges that the U.S. military will face as climate change progresses. Much attention ...
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A 'Better War' in Afghanistan
CNAS President Dr. John Nagl testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at 2:30pm, in Room 419 of the Dirksen Senate Office Buildin...
By John A. Nagl
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Other threats from within
Threats to public safety and national security in the UK come from a variety of sources; and not all of them are Islamic. We have seen the newly energised extreme right wing o...
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RIP Keith
Possibly the coolest guy on British TV.. ever And even when it goes wrong.....
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Data and Natural Security
As countries battle a wave food shortages, trying to ensure supplies and qualm domestic fears, the consequences of food insecurity are growing increasingly vivid these days. P...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting
Yemen is becoming one of the most closely watched countries in the Middle East; ranked 18th in Foreign Policy’s “Failed State Index.” And one of the issues that we have been c...
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RIP, Jed
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The Price of a Scoop
Wow. Tunku Varadarajan asks some really good questions about the rescue of Stephen Farrell: That said, let us put moral questions to one side and ask what--now--the duty of Th...
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The Lebanese Bernie Madoff
My hosts here in Beirut have written and photographed the best English-language account thus far of Salah Ezzedine, the man being described as the Lebanese Bernie Madoff. Alth...
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Reading Old Magazines: “The World’s Resources I—The Lean Years”
The energy shocks of the 1970s caused many Americans to rethink energy in fundamental ways. The October 1973 OPEC oil embargo proved just how heavily U.S. energy supplies reli...
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Rock on! - Pakistani style
Sometimes, Pakistan just rocks. I don't mean the landscape, the people or the food. I don't even mean the awesome contradiction of watching poor parents drop their kids off at...
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The human side of anti-COIN in Afghanistan
If you still don't get why population-centric COIN is a good idea, let the Guardian's Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's report from Kunduz enlighten you. If you live in a country with troop...
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London's 9/11
About an hour ago, Londonstani made a dramatic return to the Abu Muqawama blog. Unfortunately, due to technical issues (ie. his inability to work out the ways of the new websi...
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London calling...
If the AM blog was a soap, this would be the point where a long disappeared character descends the stairs and everyone gasps. In explanation, the bemused character tells every...
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Weekly News Roundup: the Many Ways of Water
This week, water is the big theme in natural security news. From water shortages in Iraq and Kenya, to flooding in Turkey and North Korea—some of it deliberate—the news proved...
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11 September 2009
Eight years ago at this time in the morning, I was in the middle of a long run with my understrength platoon of infantry at Fort Drum. An hour later, I would be sitting in the...
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I Bet the Marines Met Their Quotas, Though
Eli Lake was asking me the other day whether or not we had been defeating al-Qaeda these past eight years. I replied that I thought we had not been "beating" al-Qaeda, per se,...
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Time to Call a Krieg a Krieg
If you can get past the firewall or find a paper copy of the Financial Times today, do so in order to read Constanze Stelzenmüller's op-ed on what happened in Kunduz and the e...