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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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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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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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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...
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How I Spent My Summer
Pages 2-1 (9) to 2-22 (30) of this .pdf. This was written with about a dozen talented and good-natured co-authors (and the world's most intense lead author) who put up with my...
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Eid Mubarak!
Ramadan is officially over and the Muslim world is about to give thanks after a month of contemplation, temperance and the chance to be granted God's forgiveness. Well actuall...
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When Taliban reporting goes wrong...
The real subject of this post is communication, and when it all goes wrong. Londonstani has spent most of the day confused by an interview in the Independent with Lieutenant-G...
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Weekly News Roundup: Changing Environments, Missions
This week, several Natural Security news items explored the operational and strategic challenges that the U.S. military will face as climate change progresses. Much attention ...
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A 'Better War' in Afghanistan
CNAS President Dr. John Nagl testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, September 16, 2009, at 2:30pm, in Room 419 of the Dirksen Senate Office Buildin...
By John A. Nagl
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Other threats from within
Threats to public safety and national security in the UK come from a variety of sources; and not all of them are Islamic. We have seen the newly energised extreme right wing o...
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RIP Keith
Possibly the coolest guy on British TV.. ever And even when it goes wrong.....
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Data and Natural Security
As countries battle a wave food shortages, trying to ensure supplies and qualm domestic fears, the consequences of food insecurity are growing increasingly vivid these days. P...
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The Lebanese Bernie Madoff
My hosts here in Beirut have written and photographed the best English-language account thus far of Salah Ezzedine, the man being described as the Lebanese Bernie Madoff. Alth...
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The Price of a Scoop
Wow. Tunku Varadarajan asks some really good questions about the rescue of Stephen Farrell: That said, let us put moral questions to one side and ask what--now--the duty of Th...
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RIP, Jed
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting
Yemen is becoming one of the most closely watched countries in the Middle East; ranked 18th in Foreign Policy’s “Failed State Index.” And one of the issues that we have been c...