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Afghanistan, 1929-1978
I am tiring of this narrative in the U.S. and international media that says Afghanistan is, has always been and will always be a nation at war with itself and its neighbors. W...
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Marek Edelman, RIP
Sometimes insurgents are the good guys, and Marek Edelman was one of the good guys. He died a over a week ago, and when I read his obituary in the newspaper after his passing,...
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Going “DARPA Hard” on Energy
“Energy has always been an important point in the military,” said Dr. Barbara McQuiston, special assistant for energy at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),...
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#42!
When I heard that my erstwhile drinking buddy and fulltime boss, Nate Fick, had been named one of GQ's 50 most powerful people in Washington, I responded with the understated ...
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Counterintuitive Counterinsurgency
As the Obama administration debates whether to stick with the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan, opponents point to that nation's flawed presidential election as a re...
By John A. Nagl & Richard Fontaine
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Eide and UNAMA
Is everyone else similarly enjoying Londonstani's posts from Pakistan? Who knew we would see the day when this blog had a foreign correspondent? I, meanwhile, am in the safety...
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Happy Columbus Day
We won't be posting today, but you can click here to see a new minerals op-ed by Sharon. Happy Columbus Day everyone!...
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Watch V.P. Sharon Burke on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, 9 a.m.
Tune in to C-SPAN this morning at 9 a.m. to watch Sharon Burke, Vice President for Natural Security, on the Washington Journal....
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Pakistan Dispatch - Newsflash: Countdown and Upsurge
Pakistani news channels are reporting that there has been an explosion in Swat, killing over 30 people. The explostion occured in an that is supposed to have been cleared by t...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Just waiting...
Nice story from the Sunday Telegraph which was posted in the comments section (thanks visitor at 12:16pm). The coming Waziristan operation has got to be the most well publicis...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Conspiracy fun
Londonstani spent the evening putting his very rusty Pashtu and Punjabi to the test talking conspiracies. At the end of a long series of conversations it turns out that, basic...
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Pakistan Dispatch - Waiting in vain
Two attacks in two days... 52 dead in Peshawar yesterday and at least four dead soldiers in an attack on Pakistan's army HQ in Rawalpindi today. Anyone would think that someon...
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Amateurs and Professionals, Tactics and Logistics
A good friend of mine who has reported from Iraq for several years described this as one of the more interesting Iraq articles he has read in quite some time: JOINT BASE BALAD...
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Scotland will now win a Nobel Prize for all the sports it has yet to invent
Two sports invented in Scotland, Golf and Rugby Sevens, are now in the Olympics. No word on the caber toss....
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The Oral History of the Taliban
Newsweek, a news magazine with a nasty habit of patronizing its U.S. readership, has manned up and decided to not be udders on a bull this week. This feature -- An Oral Histor...
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Weekly News Roundup: First Responders
One disaster after another seems to be hitting the Pacific Ocean area. We’ve been following emergency relief efforts as the military tries to aid those hit by Typhoons Parma a...
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Well, I guess if people like Arafat and Begin could win this thing...
Really? I like the guy, but dude's been president for, like, three weeks. Update: Hahaha. Greatest comment on teh internets ever: “YO OBAMA, I’M GONNA LET YOU FINISH, BUT I JU...
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The Financial World Meets Robert Fisk
This would be really funny if it were not so serious. After Robert Fisk -- whose very name has long been a verb meaning to viciously fact-check -- wrote a very thinly sourced ...
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Events from Around Town: Toward a New Climate Network
Yesterday, I headed down to the Hall of the States near Capitol Hill to attend a conference entitled “Toward a New Climate Network: Transatlantic Solutions for a Low Carbon Ec...
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Events from Around Town: Nuclear Power Plants, Now Travel-Sized!
Yesterday, I attended the CSIS event Scaling Down Reactors: A Different Model for Nuclear Energy, moderated by Frank Verrastro, Director and Senior Fellow with its Energy and ...