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Torture and the UK
Does Britain collude in the torture of terror suspects or not? The head of MI5 said in a speech the other day that torturing people might be OK for Jack Bauer, but it's not OK...
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Book Review: The Worst Hard Time
I want to make sure that we are including some homeland natural security issues every now and again here at the Natural Security Blog. I also wanted to read something semi-fic...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The world's least secret operation
Pakistan's military finally launched its operation in Waziristan today after nearly a month of official announcements telling everyone to expect its imminent execution. London...
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Suicide attacks in Iran - The Pakistan effect?
So a suicide bomber today killed "several top commanders in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards" and the Iranians blamed the US and the UK. So far, so predictable. But away from...
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Bergman on Hizballah
I have several friends in the Israeli journalism community whose reporting I trust and admire, but when it comes to Hizballah, I am often wary of what is written from south of...
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Where is Tom Emanski when we need him?
What is wrong with the Angels? You should not lose the ALCS because of your inability to throw and catch... Tom Emanski Commercial. from Amir on Vimeo....
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Pakistan Dispatch: Below criteria - Unreported death
At one place Londonstani worked, there was an unofficial metric for deciding when to report civilian deaths. It basically looked like this, 1 dead Westerner = 10 dead locals. ...
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Alternatives to Population-Centric COIN in Afghanistan
Credit goes to reader and enthusiastic supporter of all things counterinsurgency Michael Cohen for sending along this piece by the very serious and very smart Austin Long that...
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Wanted: Spring Interns
Wanna hang out at the Little Think Tank That Could this spring? Apply here. The pay is low, the morale is high. We get a pretty amazing crew of interns each season, by the way...
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Weekly News Roundup: Tradeoffs
An interesting theme emerged in natural security news this week: tradeoffs. As any economist will tell you, you can’t have it all. Tradeoffs are inevitable. Energy is no diffe...
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(Criticism - Constructive Alternatives) = (Udders + Bull)
As I watched the Frontline documentary on Tuesday night and read the Dexter Filkins profile of Stan McChrystal in the New York Times Magazine yesterday, I found myself thinkin...
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One Man, Two Wars
In Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith is the principled former deputy to Kai Eide who spoke out on Afghan corruption. In Iraq ... well, it's a little more complicated. Reidar Visser...
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Reading Old Magazines: The New Geography of Conflict
Wars over timber, shrinking water supplies, and constant forward deployment of our military to protect oil and natural gas reserves, this was the vision that Michael Klare, th...
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Day One at the Naval Energy Forum: a Tweeted Recap
Instead of writing a full recap of day one of the Naval Energy Forum, I thought I’d just present the highlights (below) as I Tweeted (Twittered?) them yesterday. You can watch...
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Pakistan Dispatch - "bold, accurate and precise" Lahore under attack
Londonstani woke up this morning to find out Lahore had turned into a war zone. The city, which until earlier this year felt largely insulated from the problems on the wester...
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Using Time Wisely
I was having coffee with a former commander in Afghanistan this morning when I started talking to him about something that has been on my mind for the past week or so. Even if...
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JP 3-24 Released
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Live Tweeting the Naval Energy Forum Today
For those of you who could not get out to the Naval Energy Forum this morning, follow Christine Parthemore on Twitter, @clparthemore, as she live tweets all the action. Also b...
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I am an Environmentalist
“Take your economy killing, phony alarmist, money grabbing, pseudo science and stuff it --- you ugly, arrogant liberal windbag.” That is a portion of an email I received yeste...
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What I'll Be Doing Tonight
1. This event for Greg Jaffe and David Cloud's wonderful new book. 2. Rugby practice. 3. Rushing home to watch Frontline....