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Atone, Crazy People
It's a little odd being in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur. Because cars are banned from the roads, you can literally walk down deserted four-lane arteries in the middle of the day, w...
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Reading Old Magazines: The World’s Resources II- Minerals, Food, and Water
Recent reports of China’s corner on current production of rare earth minerals have caused quite a stir. In the recent proliferation of authors and institutes looking at U.S. m...
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Lessons in Sharing, Part II
Reader "Devil Dawg" writes in from Iraq to illustrate the problem I addressed in an earlier post. Not being able to share information with our alleged "partners" due to classi...
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Sunday Afghanistan Roundup
I spent yesterday driving around the West Bank with some friends -- I'm sorry to say the famous kunafeh at al-Quds in Nablus was not, I did not think, as good as that at Sea S...
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Weekly News Roundup: Climate Change Takes Center Stage
This week has been full of major speeches—and some action—on natural security. President Obama addressed these issues not once, but twice at the United Nations. Meanwhile, the...
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg's Keynote Address at "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - TranscriptChina’s rise is one of the most significant geopolitical events in modern history, with important ramifications for U.S. interests, regional power balances, and the internatio...
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CNAS CEO Nathaniel Fick's Opening Remarks at "China's Arrival: The Long March to Global Power" - Transcript
China’s rise is one of the most significant geopolitical events in modern history, with important ramifications for U.S. interests, regional power balances, and the internatio...
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UK Strategy and Defense Policy: Where Should It Go?
It has not escaped the British Ministry of Defense -- excuse me, Ministry of Defence -- that we colonists have a rather more lively public debate on our defense policy than do...
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Losing Traditions in a Changing Climate
With the opening of the Arctic and alternating droughts and floods across Africa, it may not seem like recent reports of poor hop and grape yields are major security concerns....
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Contrary to popular belief...
Eli Lake and others are now reporting a resource request for Afghanistan will come on Friday, while Spencer Ackerman is at the Marine Corps University's COIN Leadership Confer...
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Two Funny Things
1. How great was Qaddafi today? I mean, classic. The Guardian has the best re-cap: He tore up a copy of the UN charter in front of startled delegates, accused the security cou...
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Debating Afghanistan
On the one hand, I am really glad the Obama Administration is debating a wide variety of alternatives in Afghanistan. While most of us were operating under the assumption that...
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The Men vs. The Mission
Population-centric counterinsurgency puts soldiers lives at risk. That's the truth. Members of Congress have voiced concern about the increase in U.S. deaths, one of the facto...
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Petraeus on COIN, CT and Afghanistan
Petraeus in the Times of London. Countering terrorists and extremism requires more than a conventional military approach. Military operations enable you to clear areas of ext...
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Natural Security by Another Definition
Today we wanted to just flag another new report out called “Natural Security,” by Washington, D.C.-based conservation group American Rivers. Obviously the group has a differen...
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Joining Forces, Requesting Forces, etc.
I got the press release for this new report from Kim and Fred Kagan on force requirements for Afghanistan and started laughing: "Dr. Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the St...
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Reading Old Magazines: "Power, Mobility, and the Law of the Sea”
As Christine promised in yesterday’s post on the new Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force – which recommends that the United States ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the...
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Capability + Intent = Threat
Hahahaha, Lt. Col. W. Thomas Smith, Jr... This guy never fails to amuse me. He's still cranky some journalists in Beirut outed him as a fabulist, ending his gig with the Natio...
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In Praise of Sobriety
And you guys wonder why I admire Steve Biddle? Whereas I fire off 200-word blog posts, Steve doesn't so much as pour his cup of coffee in the morning without doing a thoughtfu...
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Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force: Natural Security in Action
In June of this year, President Obama launched an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, a group of 24 federal agency representatives led by the Council on Environmental Quality...