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Party at the Willard
Hey all. Not too much of a blog today, as we're a little preoccupied setting up for just about the most epic event to hit D.C. since Lady Gaga was last here in September. The ...
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Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Climate Science and National Security Policy
Yesterday, Dr. Jay Gulledge and I released our near year-long study on the gap between climate science and national security: Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Clim...
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Tribal Engagement in Afghanistan: Tactical Lessons Learned
As many of this blog's readers know, I helped facilitate the Tribal Engagement Workshop run by the crew at Small Wars Journal. I was put in charge of collecting lessons learne...
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Subordinates, How Not to Treat Your
As regular readers know, I read the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times every morning because I secretly find the world of finance to be as fascinating as defense poli...
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This Weekend's News: Niger, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and South Africa
What do these countries have in common? For the purposes of this blog post, they were all featured in important natural security news over the weekend. Let’s start with Frid...
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Courtesy of the NYT - A peek into Pakistan's politics of extremism
Despite what Pakistani politicians might say, extremism isn't all cut and dried in a hugely diverse (and equally stratified) country of 170-odd million people. This article by...
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What do Carol Browner, Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom, David Kilcullen, Robert Kaplan and I Have in Common?
We will all be speaking at CNAS's huge - huge - event next Wednesday on natural resources and security! This is public, dear readers, and your chance to be in the room for the...
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On Earth Day, Thinking About Energy Innovation
Earth Day is today. Sting and The Roots are gearing up for their Sunday jamfest on the National Mall with Reverend Jesse Jackson, and the spirit of energy innovation is in the...
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Reading Rainbow
We sent our new report off to the printer at OOB yesterday (well, our fearless designer/producer, the intrepid Liz Fontaine did), so I’ve been trying to catch up on my massive...
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Linkage to some Readage
I have been crashing on a new paper on Afghanistan, which just went to the copy editor last night, and have not been blogging (or answering phone calls or emails) as a result....
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Slideshow of the Week: Because No One Should Read Too Much on Fridays
We thought we'd help you out in passing the time as you watch the hands creep slowly around the clock, counting down the last few hours between you and that glorious weekend. ...
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DOD and Sector 7G
Of the geeky interests I pass the time with, perhaps none are as odd as my interests in reading old technical documents and outdated architecture. You can imagine the nerd-tas...
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This Weekend's News: China and Latin America and The Onion
We have been pumping hard on some writing deadlines last week and through the weekend, so this is going to be short and sweet. After laboring to wrap up our series on how clim...
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On Drone Strikes
Tom Ricks is the one who usually gets the interns at CNAS to do the spade work on his blog, but I was talking with intern Matt Irvine about an event he attended on drone strik...
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You Stay Classy, Northrop Grumman
A hobby of mine is to examine and reflect upon the ridiculous amount of money the military-industrial complex spends on advertising in the DC metro system in its effort to con...
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Bajaur aftermath - The Independent
Patrick Cockburn has great report from Bajaur in today's Independent. The access comes about as a result of a PR trip organised by the Pakistani military but Cockburn takes th...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Michael Nash
I recently had the good fortune to drop by the British Embassy for a viewing of filmmaker Michael Nash’s most recent film Climate Refugees. After the event, I had a chance to ...
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First my cousin criticizes the insurgent strategy of the rebel alliance in "Star Wars" and now this
These are the kinds of emails Foust sends me at 11:00 at night because he knows I'm the only one who will appreciate them, even if I have never actually watched Glee: Watching...
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How to report Pakistan (or anywhere) and how to.... not
This story in the Washington Post is good example of how to write a story on Pakistan. By that I mean, go there. If you do, you get to say stuff like this with some authority:...
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U.S. Military Assistance to Lebanon
I had dinner last night with several Levant specialists, including Aram Nerguizian of the CSIS. Tony Cordesman speaks highly of Aram, and their paper on the Lebanese Armed For...