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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...
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Capability + Intent = Threat
Hahahaha, Lt. Col. W. Thomas Smith, Jr... This guy never fails to amuse me. He's still cranky some journalists in Beirut outed him as a fabulist, ending his gig with the Natio...
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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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In Praise of Sobriety
And you guys wonder why I admire Steve Biddle? Whereas I fire off 200-word blog posts, Steve doesn't so much as pour his cup of coffee in the morning without doing a thoughtfu...
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Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force: Natural Security in Action
In June of this year, President Obama launched an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, a group of 24 federal agency representatives led by the Council on Environmental Quality...
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How I Spent My Summer
Pages 2-1 (9) to 2-22 (30) of this .pdf. This was written with about a dozen talented and good-natured co-authors (and the world's most intense lead author) who put up with my...
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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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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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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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RIP Keith
Possibly the coolest guy on British TV.. ever And even when it goes wrong.....
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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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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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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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RIP, Jed
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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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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...