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Living Our Values
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This Weekend’s News: Fun with Nuclear Reactors
I’m going to reach back into last week on this one, as President Obama teed up the topic last Tuesday with his announcement of over $8 billion in loan guarantees for new nucle...
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Buy This Book. Now.
While home in Tennessee this weekend, I finished (and enjoyed) this book and this book. More on both later. But as soon as I started Matt Gallagher's new memoir, Kaboom, while...
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(Field) Manual Sift: A Newly COIN’d Blog Feature
At the risk of having this new feature labeled a complete cliché, I will save you the overly used George Santayana quote, and simply state that sometimes it is pertinent to lo...
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In Inaugural Review, DHS Says Climate Change Could Shape Security Environment
The Department of Homeland Security released its inaugural Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) last week. According to the report, the QHSR will "Describe more compreh...
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Speaking of CT...
...this video, released by the police in Dubai, of the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is just amazing. Like watching Munich. But for real....
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A CT Reading List? [Open Thread]
Okay, you all know about the famous Abu Muqawama Counterinsurgency Reading List. But a reader wrote in asking whether or not we might consider posting a reading list on counte...
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Movie Review: Avatar
At the risk of a pop culture flogging, I thought that someone over at the Natural Security blog should put out some commentary on the seemingly messianic piece of 3D cinema kn...
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Marja Analysis (Updated)
I'm at work, unable to endure watching the rest of France v. Ireland after this epic collapse. It's a good time to read some of the analysis of the ongoing offensive in Marja,...
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Book Review: To Hellholes and Back
I got this book for my brother Chris, a lover of diving and travel humor, for Christmas after a friend recommended it on Facebook. Having not read it and purchased it for titl...
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Charlie Wilson, RIP
What a life....
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From the Dept. of We All Make Mistakes
A few days ago I posted on this New York Times article about the memoirs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was happy to see memoirist friends like Craig and Nate get so...
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The Need for Research (Or, Why You Should Not Write Newspaper Columns While High on Qat)
Tom Friedman's column today about how we can build more schools and defeat terrorism is one of those things that sounds right but probably isn't. Leave aside the fact that Uma...
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Read This Now: Land Grab? The Race for the World’s Farmlands
Our colleagues in the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars recently released a comprehensive report, Land Grab? The Race for the World’s Farmla...
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NOAAing Your Climate Science
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced yesterday that it would reorganize its climate services so it can provide Americans with more information ...
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Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World - Transcript
Download the transcript from the January 26 event on the contested commons - sea, air, space, and cyberspace - including remarks from: Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gar...
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To be fair, "fog of war" was suggested by the editors...
Elizabeth Bumiller, you are in the penalty box of the English language. Describing the many great memoirs that have been written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she wr...
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This Weekend's News: Big Natural Security Elections – Ukraine Thinks Gas while Venezuela Explores Geoengineering
The biggest natural security news through the long D.C. snowpocalypse weekend involved coverage of two energy-important elections, one now held and the other to come later thi...
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Abu Muqawama on Twitter
Now that I am no longer blogging on a daily basis, the best way to see what has caught my eye in a given day is by following this blog's Twitter feed. I know it can be an anno...
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Intelligence Assessments & Climate Change: 2009 v. 2010
I thought it would be super fun to spend a Wednesday night comparing the intelligence community’s threat assessment language on climate change from last year and this year (pd...