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Reading Old Magazines: “India’s Mineral Wealth and Political Future”
Foreign policy watchers know that India is a hot topic in world politics, and will only become more so as its population and economic prospects increase (though its economy, l...
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Hey! Charlie's in Kabul!
Did she mean for her new blog to be discovered? Well, it's too late now. One of our readers already did. This may be the first spinoff from Abu Muqawama. Let's hope it's more ...
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What happened to solidarity among southerners, Haifa?
Oh no, the pride of Mahrouna, Haifa Wehbe, has gotten in trouble for calling those from Upper Egypt "monkeys". Tsk, tsk. I don't think singing this in Aswan is going to make u...
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Counterinsurgency - Lessons from Pakistan
There's little news coming out from independent sources about the Pakistani army's campaign in Waziristan. The suspicion amongst the international journalists and analysts is ...
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Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index is released today. Somalia just edges out Afghanistan for most corrupt nation on Earth....
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SSR in Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen
Yezid Sayigh, to whom this blogger owes both a dissertation chapter as well as an interim progress report, has a new white paper out from the Carnegie Institute on secutiry se...
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The Battle of Algaes
Last night I attended a conference on nonvascular polyphyletic plantlike organisms, alternately eukaryotic and prokaryotic. These are commonly known as algae, which is useful ...
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Pakistan Catch Up
Any hopes Londonstani had that Pakistan would be trouble-free while Ms Henley-on-Thames made a slightly nervous visit didn’t last long… about 7 hours to be exact. The day Ms H...
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This Weekend’s News: The Changing World
Last Friday afternoon, Sharon and I were walking back to the CNAS offices after a meeting and chatting about the indicators we see in our natural security research about the w...
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Amazing Afghanistan Pictures
From David Guttenfelder. I especially like the one of the wildman from 1-26 fighting in his flipflops and pink underwear and the one of the U.S. Marine carrying a 60mm mortar ...
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Weekly News Roundup: Climate Change Diplomacy
Climate change diplomacy is in the air. With the Copenhagen climate summit rapidly approaching, the newswires are abuzz with governments and private groups expressing their vi...
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define: berserk
Better late than never, read this Veterans Day essay in the Boston Globe by Ted Sutton....
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The Taliban's Playbook
They know ours. Now we have theirs. nefa_talibancodeconduct...
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For the record, I don't know what Fick is talking about. I bought my Ranger Tab at the PX for $1.65.
Oh, the story of the dude who showed up at his high school reunion and told everyone he was a highly decorated Marine... Yeah, that's a crime now, bud. I'm sure the readership...
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For this we fought?
I often do not agree with my friend Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, but he is certainly one of the more talented journalists I know and surely one of the bravest as well. I was having dinn...
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Reconciliation and Insurgency in Afghanistan
I mentioned how much I enjoyed this event at the Center for American Progress. I can't get the embed code to work for some reason, but you can now watch it online here....
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Vietnam Ended in 1975, Gang
Laura Rozen's blog post on the Eikenberry memos is worth reading if only because it features some quotes from those dinosaurs in the Democratic Party who think that when it co...
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More Genius from the Onion
"U.S. Deports Lou Dobbs"...
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Hegghammer on "Small" Footprints in Afghanistan ... and Kate Brooks on Pakistani Fashion
Thomas Hegghammer, along with Will McCants, knows more about al-Qaeda than any person I know. He's from that Norwegian school (led by this guy) that thinks you need to, you kn...
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Throwing Karl Under the Bus
Well whoever leaked the fact that Karl Eikenberry is deeply skeptical of the effects of a troop increase in Afghanistan certainly had the desired effect as far as the Washingt...