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Pakistan Dispatch: Hearts and Minds
Posting will be sparse over the next few days as Londonstani is playing host to the potential future Mrs. Londonstani (who is presently just known as Ms. Henley-on-Thames). So...
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Book Club: A Special Abu Muqawama Interview with David Ucko
David Ucko is a friend of the blog and the author of a new book on the efforts made by the U.S. military to transform itself to meet the operational challenges of Iraq and Afg...
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Weekly News Roundup: Water Security
Countries all over the world are beginning to feel the impacts of water security in its many forms. Yemen has become a prime example of what happens when water mismanagement, ...
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Holy cow...
Not good. That sniper at Bragg in 1995 only killed one, I think: FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- The U.S. Army has closed its massive Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, amid reports that...
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Look, Ron! I'm riding a furry tractor!
I'll be highlighting some very thought-provoking alternatives to population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan over the next few days. But first, I want to ask a questio...
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Finishing Firefights
My friend Owen West sent me this great video showing some good combat footage from his father that helps to explain how difficult it is to close with and engage the enemy in A...
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While you weren't looking...
Aside from being a great Caitlin Cary album, that phrase is as good a way as any to break the news that Saudi Arabia is now bombing Yemen. The Saudi air force has bombed stro...
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Reading Old Magazines: Mineral Myths
My colleague Mike pointed me in the direction of this post by Stephen Walt, which considers strategic minerals on a Halloween list of “overblown threats, dubious nightmares, a...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The blame game
A few people have been wondering about what Pakistanis make of the recent attacks that have taken place all around the north of the country. Londonstani has been travelling ar...
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Pakistan Dispatch: The lesser spotted last gasp
It's probably not even worth counting how many times one side of a conflict has portrayed the increasing violence of its foes as a "last gasp". The Taliban in Afghanistan has ...
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Just How Vulnerable is DoD's Grid Security? Not Quite Sure, Says GAO
Last week I covered an event at the Wilson Center where Dr. Amory Lovins, a member of the Defense Science Board’s Task Force on DoD Energy Strategy, gave a stark presentation ...
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The Cost of Civilians at War
I was talking on Friday night with a friend of mine who works on Afghanistan policy, and we began discussing the trickle (or "surge") of civilians into southern and eastern Af...
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Dealing with the Karzais...
What happens when the interests of the host nation government don't line up with the interests of the counterinsurgent force is famously absent from FM 3-24. Blog favorites Bi...
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And now, from our friends in the academy...
The Journal of Strategic Studies has a special edition completely devoted to counterinsurgency and related issues....
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Dan Brown? Really?
No wonder we have no peace in the Middle East. George Mitchell spends all his time with Hillary Clinton discussing the plotlines of Dan Brown novels while Jeff Feltman stares ...
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All I want for Christmas is...
...a census and land registry for Afghanistan. This is one reason why: President Obama is still working hard to figure out the next steps in the very difficult war in Afghanis...
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On Martial Virtue ... and Selling Jon Krakauer's Crappy New Book
A few months ago, I was asked to review Jon Krakauer's new book by the Washington Post, and I must admit to having been excited. Having grown up a pretty serious rock climber,...
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Movie Review: There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood, a 2007 film very loosely based on the 1927 Upton Sinclair book Oil!, is really only partly about oil. At its core, it's a story of a man who absolutely ha...
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Pakistan Dispatch: State of the Nation
Nine days is a long time in Pakistan these days. Since Londonstani went off on his (mostly) road trip around Pakistan a lot has happened. Not much of it has been good. Several...
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This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency, but...
Well, as we discussed yesterday, there are great books doomed to become (potentially) awful movies starring Matt Damon. But apparently there are also great books which can bec...